Camden Hills from Caterpillar Hill - Jean Deighan

Acrylic on Canvas, 10 x 10"

Jean is an attorney and owner of a wealth management firm. She did not go to art school, but grew up surrounded by paintings and painters. For most of her life she spent her visual energy appreciating the art of others, a practice which she enthusiastically continues to this day. In fact, she describes herself as the woman who will never have a new kitchen because she will always buy another painting instead. That said, she picked up a paint brush ten years ago and surprised herself. She began to see her favorite places more intensely, and found herself transported to a different plane of existence as she painted those places. She paints "the way her subjects make her feel," and hopes she can thereby share some of that experience with her viewers.

Untitled - Diana Young

Acrylic on Canvas, 10 x 10"

Central Maine is not known for a fall of cascading reds and yellows with 75- or 80-degree winds brushing our cheeks, but that’s what we’ve been experiencing these recent days, bookended by frosts and blackened corners of gardens. For all of us TEN artists who are hunkering down to create these 10 new pieces in a small window of time, it’s an odd scenario. Many of us so want to be out and about sucking in every scent, lick of sun, the vestiges of coatless-weather days because real fall can’t be far behind.

It’s all good for Diana Young, who already finished all 10 of her paintings days ago. When she was asked whether she’d make new work for this show, she said, “I don’t know whether I’ll have the time to make a new painting.” But when she was told, “No, not A painting, Diana—10 paintings,” she said, “Oh, that’s a worthwhile challenge.”

Caterpillar Hill Looking East - Jean Deighan

Caterpillar Hill Looking East, Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 10"

by Dave Haskins

Watercolor, 10 x 10"

Untitled - Diana Young

Acrylic on canvas,  10" x 10"

Untitled 2 - Kristborg Whitney

Untitled, Acrylic on panel, 10" x 10"

Wonderland at Sewall - Joanne Houlsen

Wonderland at Sewall, Oil on canvas, 10" x 10"