Caron Zand and Don Head are passionate collectors of Maine art and patrons of Maine artists. They are engaged in supporting both

the visual and performing arts— Zand serves on the Board of Maine College of Art and Head is the President of Board of the Portland Opera Repertory Theater. Their collection, featured in MH+D’s April story “Where the Art Is,” is constantly evolving as they continue to discover and encourage emerging artists and encourage the contributions of those more established in their careers.

Caron Zand fondly recalls acquiring this large Denny Winters painting (above) that hangs beneath the skylights in the soaring atrium of their home. “This was one of our most serendipitous purchases,” Zand recalls. “We found it at the 2001 Maine College of Art auction. I saw it and fell in love with it immediately. We decided to hang it in the atrium where you can look up the stairs to the clouds in the painting and the clouds in the sky. It really is a fabulous work of art.”

Head and Zand have had a long relationship with woodworker Duane Patricio and glass artist Laura Fuller, who worked together to create this screen, which hides a small, utilitarian shower, for the couple’s powder room (above). Patricio fashioned the piece from salvaged barn wood, which he finds in remote Maine locations. Metal smith Michael Randazzo designed and forged stylized bronze hinges and fasteners for the piece. Fuller’s glass windows incorporate antique bottles, prisms, and intricate, thorny vines of copper foil. The modern aesthetic of the Angela Adams rug plays off the antique feel of the screen.

The Beverly Hallam pastel over the living room fireplace is a study for a much larger work that hangs in the Farnsworth. The incredible Spurwink Marsh views are punctuated by a Laura Fuller glass installation in the transom window. Fuller incorporated antique glass objects that Zand had collected into the piece.

Candace Karu, Editor at Large

Photography by Darren Setlow