The Canvas

Numinous Skies

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THE CANVAS- June 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy

Colin Barclay, Sean Beavers & Lisa Creed

“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.” -James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Colin Barclay, Storm on the Barrens, 2007, oil on paper laid to panel, 24” x 24”
 

Fertile Ground

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THE CANVAS- May 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy

Ingrid Ellison, Mary Barnes & John Knight

“The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.” -Gustave Courbet

Mary Barnes, Aquatic Edge, 2009, graphite, ink on Mylar and paper, 22" x 22”, private collection

 

Defining The Edge

 

 

Created Worlds

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CRAFT OF MAINE-  April 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy

Sara Crisp, Meg Brown Payson & Penelope Jones

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” -Henry Miller

Sara Crisp, Untitled (Wheel-Leaf), 2008, encaustic, lotus, ligularia leaf, mica on wood panel, 36” x 36”

 

 

Reflecting Luminosity

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THE CANVAS-  March 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy

Joellyn Duesberry, Jessica Stammen & Kristin Malin

“You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.”  - Winslow Homer

Joellyn Duesberry - Waterfilled Quarry, Maine, 2006, oil on linen, 36” x 48”

 

 

Material Matters

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THE CANVAS-Jan/Feb 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy

Tom Paiement, Stew Henderson & William Manning

“In a successful painting everything is integral…all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.” -Richard Diebenkorn

Entropy Aftermath: Tribute 1, mixed media, 13 1/8” x 13 1/8” |  Tom Paiement

 

The World Down Under

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THE CANVAS-Nov/Dec 2009 | by Suzette McAvoy

Richard Keen, Dudley Zopp & Hannah Bureau

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein

Geologics XIV, 2006, oil on canvas, 40” x 24” |              Dudley Zopp

 

 

 

Autumn’s Coat of Colors

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THE CANVAS-October 2009 | by Suzette McAvoy

George Bayliss, Jennifer Whiting & Henry Isaacs

“Color is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.” -Robert Louis Stevenson

Sedgwick, Autumn, 2007, oil on canvas, 30” x 40”  George Bayliss

 

Nature’s Cathedrals

THE CANVAS-September 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Janice Anthony, R. Scott Baltz & Jane Dahmen

 

Capturing the Color of Light

THE CANVAS-August 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Alexandra Tyng, Louise Bourne & Thomas Paquette

 

 

The Language of Abstraction

THE CANVAS-June 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Joshua Ferry, Mark Wethli & Grace DeGennaro

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes…to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. -Arshile Gorky

 

Gardens of Earthly Delight

THE CANVAS-May 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Among the changing months,  May stands confest The Sweetest, And in fairest colors dressed. -James Thomson

Dynamic Tension
Our human collaboration with nature is at the core of Avy Claire’s art. As a professional landscape designer and artist, she is passionately concerned with our imprint on the environment and its effect over time. “I am interested in the dynamic tension between human mechanistic activity and nature’s deeper order,” she says. “I call this intersection ‘The Garden.’”
The Garden is fertile ground for Claire’s art, which variously takes the form of painting, drawing on Mylar, digital photography, or—increasingly—installations. “Lately, I feel that my medium will be whatever it takes to accomplish what I want to do,” she says.

 

The Bleak and the Beautiful

THE CANVAS-April 2009

by Carl Little

Mary Aro, Eric Aho & Dozier Bell

Supported in part by a bequest from the painter William Thon and his wife Helen, late of Port Clyde, the Portland Museum of Art’s juried biennial has developed a reputation for the remarkable spectrum of aesthetics it puts on display. The 2009 biennial—the museum’s sixth—is no exception, presenting painters, photographers, sculptors, and new-media artists who are exploring varieties of artistic expression.

 

The Month of Expectation

THE CANVAS-March 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Susan Headley van Campen, Monica Kelly & T. Allen Lawson

A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period—
When March is scarcely here
-Emily Dickinson

 

Exalting the Ordinary

THE CANVAS-JAN/FEB 2009

by Suzette McAvoy

Colin Page, Denise Remy & Vivian Russe

“Cézanne made a living thing out of a teacup, or rather in a teacup he realized the existence of something alive. He raised still life to such a point that it ceased to be inanimate. He painted these things as he painted human beings, because he was endowed with the gift of divining the inner life in everything.” Wassily Kandinsky

 

Transcending the Everyday

THE CANVAS - NOV/DEC 2008

by Carl Little

Alison Rector, Jill Hoy, & DeWitt Hardy

When describing an artist’s connection to the landscape, the term “a sense of place” is often used to convey that ineffable personal resonance that elevates a work of art above the merely descriptive or picturesque.

 

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