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  • Summer Garden

    Summer Garden

  • October Crows

    October Crows

  • Shooting Star, oil on canvas

    Shooting Star, oil on canvas

  • A paradox? A paradox?

    A paradox? A paradox?

    A paradox?
    A paradox,
    A most ingenious paradox!

    We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
    But none to beat this paradox!

    A paradox,
    a paradox,
    A most ingenious paradox.
    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
    This paradox.

    Pirates of Penzance
    Gilbert and  Sullivan

    Creating art is not your everyday affair.  You have to take it seriously or you produce garbage.  But on the other hand if you treat your latest creation as a holy relic you will also produce crappola.  So your work has to have all your attention and be the most important thing in front of you and at the same time you have to be willing jump in and change it all around or even tear it up, casually, if it is going wrong.

    You have to (try to) be honest with every brushstroke.  Some look great but are wrong for the painting.  So in spite of the individual beauty of a brushstroke you have to remove it to be honest to the whole.

     

  • Kennebec Mural, full

    Kennebec Mural, full

    This is a 14 x 40 foot mural I was commissioned through the Percent for Arts Program to paint for the new Capital Judicial Center in Maine’s state capital of Augusta.  The mural is titled Kennebec and tells of the history and importance of the river to Maine.

    For more than 4 centuries the river was the major highway, artery  connecting Maine literally with the ports of the rest of the world.

    In the mural the river and sky are continuous but the various time periods fold into each other.

    I kept the palette for this mural intentionally subdued to be in keeping with the serious and quiet setting in the lobby of the courtrooms.

    I wanted to show the ways people lived, worked and played along the river as they built this region.

  • Hallowell Fireman Saves Superman

    Hallowell Fireman Saves Superman

    Fireman Saves Superman

    This is a poster design for the Jesse Tozier Fundraiser to help Jesse when he donates a kidney to Scott Baker.

  • Playbill design for Promises, Promises

    Playbill design for Promises, Promises

    Playbill designed for Gaslight Theater’s production of Promises, Promises.

  • Autumn Cemetery

    Autumn Cemetery

  • Picnic

    Picnic

    A theater playbill design for Gaslight Theater in Hallowell, Maine for the play Picnic.

    Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play was premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway, on 19 February 1953 in a Theatre Guild production, directed by Joshua Logan, which ran for 477 performances.

  • 2nd Annual Woodstock Revival

    2nd Annual Woodstock Revival

    Poster and t-shirt design for the Second Annual Woodstock Revival in Hallowell, Maine.  A great event with tons of great art, music and dancing.

  • Superman is Down!

    Superman is Down!

    A poster designed for a benefit for Scott Baker at the Quarry taproom in Hallowell, Maine.

  • Passersby

    Passersby

  • The Old Maple

    The Old Maple

  • “Toward the Island” oil painting, Popham Beach

    “Toward the Island” oil painting, Popham Beach

    detail…Kate Clements Cart
  • Spanish Guitar

    Spanish Guitar

  • The Troupe

    The Troupe

    Although “The Troupe” original is in a private collection, we offer a giclée print in my print shop.

  • Entr’acte

    Entr’acte

  • Act II

    Act II

    I have at times found myself on stage as well, and I have painted many sets for this theater as well.

    The egg tempera/oil original “Act II” may be seen and purchased at Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland, Maine.

  • A little night music

    A little night music