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Bass Harbor is my year round home and it is here on Mt. Desert Island where I find endless inspiration for my work. The light along the coast is unbelievably exciting. There is an intensity and vastness of space by the sea with constantly changing weather and a wonderful variety in the seasons. My love of nature runs deep within and because of this I paint landscapes. I love painting with watercolors. Watercolor is the perfect medium for expressing the essence of the Maine coast. It is natural, fluid, unpredictable, and luminous. The paint is wonderfully versatile which allows it to be applied with rich intensity or a delicate tone. Generally, my paintings are representational although I will often abstract the forms to emphasize a spiritual element that I particularly feel in a scene. I am a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society.

EDUCATION

Boston University, MA Ed., 1963
University of Colorado, Boulder: BFA, 1959
DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln MA: 1953-1954

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007 Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME

2006 North American Open Show, New England Watercolor Society, Gloucester, MA

2005 New England Watercolor Society, Saco Museum, Saco ME

2002 -2004 Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME

The Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME
National Watercolor Society, Brea CA

2000 Harbor Square Gallery, Rockland ME
The Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME (one man show)

Redfield Artisans, Northeast Harbor ME

New England Watercolor Society, Concord MA
Redfield Artisans, Northeast Harbor ME
Islesford Artists, Little Cranberry Island ME

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor ME
Redfield Artisans, Northeast Harbor ME
Islesford Artists, Little Cranberry Island ME

North American Open Show, New England Watercolor Society, Boston MA
Redfield Artisans, Northeast Harbor ME
Islesford Artists, Little Cranberry Island ME

Gallery 68, J.S. Ames Fine Art, Belfast ME - July show
New England Watercolor Society, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA

Gallery 68, Belfast ME
Islesford Artists, Little Cranberry Island ME
College of the Atlantic, Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor ME
Wendell Gilley Museum, Southwest Harbor ME

Gallery 68, Belfast ME
Islesford Artists, Little Cranberry Island ME
The Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME

North American Open Show, New England Watercolor Society, Boston MA
The Copley Society, Boston MA
"New England Exhibition," Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable MA

PUBLISHED

American Artist Magazine, August 1990, Competition - "Preserving Our natural Resources"
The Discovery Channel, Start to Finish: "Artists in Acadia National Park" 1995
Down East Books, Winter Catalog Cover 1995
Bay View Press, Thomaston ME: Cards selected for publication
"Birch and Ledges" 1997 “Long Shadows” 2002
"Hiking Weather" 1998 "Spring Skiing" 2001
"Mountain Maple" 1998 “Lights Across the Harbor” 2001
"Huckleberry Bushes" 1999 "Apple Trees in Snow" 2001

Maine Boats and Harbors, “Watercolorists In Winter” Carl Little, Winter 2006
Hinckley Yacht Charters, brochure cover 2006

REVIEWS

___________ "Church Opens at Wingspread," The Bar Harbor Times, June 29, 2000
___________ "Landscape Artists on Islesford," The Bar Harbor Times, July 2, 1998
___________ "The Art of The Cranberry Isles," The Bar Harbor Times, July 1996
Fox, Nichols. "Mount Desert's Little Neighbors," The New York Times, August 14, 1994
Baldwin, Letitia. "The Healing of Art," The Bar Harbor Times, July 19, 1993
Little, Carl. Art in New England, December 1992 and January 1993
Eastman, Thomas. "Artist in the Woods," The Mountaineer, August 9, 1990

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

New England Watercolor Society - Signature Member

JURY ACTIVITY

- 2005 Selection committee for Artist-In-Residence program, Acadia National Park
1991 Acadia National Park 75th Birthday Poster Competition
1991 US Postal Service Stamp Competition for Children

HONORS

2000 Selected to participate in "Art Week" on Great Spruce Head Island (summer home of Fairfield and
Elliot Porter)
Selected for filming in the Discovery Channel program Start to Finish: "Artists in Acadia National Park"
1990 Competition Winner, "Preserving our Natural Resources," American Artist Magazine

TEACHING

2002 Taught watercolor for Acadia Senior College (under the University of Maine Systems)

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