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Bergen, Dona - "WASHED UP, Treasures of the
Atlantic"
Item Number: 1
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WASHED UP, Treasures of the Atlantic - One of the great joys of living on
the coast in Maine is walking along the shore and picking up treasures the
sea has washed ashore.
ABOUT DONA BERGEN
For the past 11 years I have been the Owner/Director of Mars Hall Gallery
in Tenants Harbor. Besides representing many talented artists, I work in
mosaics, mixed media stained glass and pottery.
Please visit: www.marshallgallery.net
Bladon, Geoff and Rasmussen, John - "The (Rarely
Sighted) Tenants Harbor Hawkster"
Item Number: 2
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"The (Rarely Sighted) Tenants Harbor Hawkster" - color and movement
found only along the Maine coast. The inspiration was from New England
Folk Art. This was a collaborative venture!
ABOUT GEOFF BLADON AND JOHN RASMUSSEN
John Rasmussen is a skilled craftsman and fine furniture maker. Geoff
Bladon is a landscape painter who shows regularly along the Midcoast.
Please visit: www.geoffbladon.ca
Bly, Phoebe - "Watch Buoy"
Item Number: 3
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"Watch Buoy" - Oil on wood. I live with lobstermen and I think at some
point in time they've all wished they had a buoy that could see!
ABOUT PHOEBE BLY
I grew up in Tenants Harbor and have been oil painting and showing for
the past 14 years.
Please visit: www.phoebebly.com
Braestrup, Kate - "FROM A GHOST TRAP"
Item Number: 4
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"FROM A GHOST TRAP" - My buoy marks a GHOST TRAP, which I think
is what they used to call traps that got loose from their buoys and went on
trapping lobsters no one would ever harvest. Naturally, it's actually about
relationships... I understand the traps now are designed in such a way that
the lobsters can find their ways out, but this is one of the really old, prehumanitarian traps. Thus may we squeeze yet more meaning from this
mixed media metaphor.
ABOUT KATE BRAESTRUP
Kate Braestrup is a community minister, law enforcement chaplain, and
the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Here If You Need
Me, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity and Beginner's Grace: Bringing
Prayer to Life.
Please visit: www.KateBraestrup.com
Cady, Sam - "Lobster Boats"
Item Number: 5
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"Lobster Boats" - I've spent various amounts of time during summers all
my life in Friendship which is a long time lobstering and boat building
town. I have drawn and painted lobster boats (many of which are in the
harbor year-round) on and off all my career. I'm inspired by them.
ABOUT SAM CADY
I've drawn and painted all my life. Lived, worked, painted, exhibited and
taught in New York City for 30 years. I moved to Maine full time in 2000.
Please visit: http://www.caldbeck.com/artist/sam-cady
Carter, Jennifer - "June"
Item Number: 6
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"June" - I love color, and the new life that spring brings was my inspiration
for this piece.
ABOUT JENNIFER CARTER
I'm a student artist at Oceanside High School. I've always found art to be a
comforting way to express myself. I have been a Trekker since 7th grade
and an artist all my life.
Derbyshire, Jane - "The Seagull"
Item Number: 7
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"The Seagull" was inspired by one who lands on the chimney of my house
every afternoon.
ABOUT JANE DERBYSHIRE
I paint in oils and create silk scarves. I show every summer on the last
weekend in July at the Ocean View Grange on Route 131 between
Tenants Harbor and Port Clyde. My training was at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Dickson, Sandra Mason - "Every journey begins
with a first step..."
Item Number: 8
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"Every journey begins with a first step" - Horseshoes - aside from being a
sign for good luck - symbolize the role horses have played in my life, from
teaching responsibility, self-confidence and team work in the horse-rider
relationship to inspiring some of my most memorable artwork.
TREKKERS' programs instill similar strengths in young people as they set
out on their life's journeys...step-by-step.
ABOUT SANDRA MASON DICKSON
Sandra Mason Dickson grew up inspired by the fine art of her
grandmother, Mary Townsend Mason, and the foremost PostImpressionist painters of Pennsylvania and Monhegan Island, Maine. She
spent twelve winters on Monhegan, raising her daughter, painting, and
finishing construction of the island's first solar-powered home. Sandra
lives in Port Clyde with her husband, Jonathan Coggeshall, and continues
to commemorate on canvas the Maine coastline, farmlands and local
inhabitants.
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Fox, Kathleen A. - "LOBSTER CLAW BUOY"
Item Number: 9
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"LOBSTER CLAW BUOY" - The sole purpose of a lobster buoy is to catch
lobsters, so what irony and fun for the buoy to become a lobster, grabbing
for the lobsterman as he sets his traps? This lobster claw buoy, however,
has already been banded, with a band portraying some of the lobster
boats in St. George.
ABOUT KATHLEEN A. FOX
I live and paint in St. George, Maine, my primary source of inspiration. My
subjects are the people, boats, harbors, animals, landscapes, flowers,
birds and buildings of Port Clyde, Tenants Harbor and the surrounding
area. I have a studio in my home above Turkey Cove, and in Port Clyde,
where I will be painting plein air this summer with my Newfoundland dog,
Beowulf.
Currently showing at GALLERY BY THE SEA, which is located next to the
Village Ice Cream store, 875A Port Clyde Rd in Port Clyde, Maine.
Please visit: www.mainewatercolors.biz
Glassman, Nancy - "FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOWS"
Item Number: 10
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"FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOWS" - As a painter, I found it tricky to figure
out how to make use of the form of the buoy. I wanted to do something
related to the Bay. Then I realized that if I twirled the buoy from a string, it
could work like an animation, so the swallows are taking flight.
ABOUT NANCY GLASSMAN
Nancy Glassman's paintings explore effects of light and nuanced colors of
seasonal change. She uses shape, pattern and rhythm to carry the viewer
through complicated scenes. She is represented by the Caldbeck Gallery
of Rockland, Maine. She received the Harlow Gallery First Place award in
2009, and in 2011, her work was included in Die Sao Paolo Biennale, in
Dusseldorf, Germany.
Please visit: www.caldbeck.com/artist/nancy-glassman
Goldsmith, Victor - "Buoy O Buoy"
Item Number: 11
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"Buoy O Buoy" - Creating the sculpture was different from my usual work
in only one way - the lobster. Using that reference as a starting point, a
stylized lobster claw was sketched onto the wood blank, and from there
the process of exposing and creating forms was intuitive, informed only by
the sculptural vocabulary I have developed over 45 years of making art.
Painting the buoy was much the same process, though my preference for
live lobsters (beautiful creatures!) clearly lost out to the red of a cooked
one.
ABOUT VIC GOLDSMITH
Vic Goldsmith was born in 1945 and grew up in Potsdam, New York, the
son of a musician/sculptor/art educator/gallery director father. He has
been making sculpture since 1969, with time out for a 25 year career in
architecture in the NYC region. He has a B. Arch from Cornell University
(1969) and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (1979). Returning
to sculpture in 2003, he and his wife Ellen moved to Cushing in 2006
where he continues his production of sculpture from his studio on Pleasant
Point Road.
Please visit: www.vicgoldsmith.com
Goodale, Anne - "Birch and dogwood spool tree"
Item Number: 12
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"Birch and dogwood spool tree" - This buoy combines nature-inspired
design and utility, to make a fanciful spool tree for the fiber artist's studio.
Details: birch bark, red stemmed dogwood, and thread spools.
ABOUT ANNE GOODALE
I am a fiber artist making quilts and painted wall hangings. I am inspired
by nature, and especially the beauty of the coast of Maine. I have been
dedicated to helping kids through my practice as an occupational
therapist. I'm a neurotic expert in re-purposing materials for something
useful or aesthetically pleasing.
Goulet, Raegan - "iridescence"
Item Number: 13
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"iridescence" - I've been painting/drawing jellyfish since my 10th grade
Trekkers trip. I thought it was appropriate to paint a jellyfish. I decided to
do coral on the other side so I could utilize all of the colors on the color
wheel.
ABOUT RAEGAN GOULET
I am a Senior Trekker, board member, student leader and have helped
organize Trekkapolooza for the past four years. I enjoy art and music very
much. Next year, I plan on attending Unity College for Earth and
Environmental Science.
Hammatt, Alicia - "BUOY BOY BEN at the BEACH"
Item Number: 14
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"BUOY BOY BEN at the BEACH" - Ben is my grandson and I have been
painting a series of Ben paintings this past winter. What better subject for
the Trekkers Auction than a beautiful child with his life ahead of him. I
hope a Trekkers program is available to our Ben when he is of age.
ABOUT ALICIA HAMMATT
An impressionist painter in oil I take my art very seriously while
simultaneously enjoying the journey. Above all I paint for myself. Having
recently moved to Tenants Harbor from Cape Cod I am looking forward to
my continuing my artistic journey in a beautiful place.
Hritz, Ange - "A SEA SIREN'S SHELTER"
Item Number: 15
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"A SEA SIREN'S SHELTER" - I live by the sea. I see, smell, taste, hear
and feel it every day. I am inspired by the treasure and tales of the ocean,
real and mythical. Even mermaids need a parasol some days.
ABOUT ANGE HRITZ
I am a retired physician. When I was practicing, I sought refuge in the arts
to attain balance between my personal and professional life and mind.
Now I am blessed to have much more time to explore my creative spirit
and talents. And there is no better place to do that then here in Port Clyde,
Maine.
Hyde, Cynthia - "Gowdy Bee Nesting Buoy"
Item Number: 16
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"Gowdy Bee Nesting Buoy" - After giving thought to how I could paint my
buoy, I concluded that I had no good idea! Then, it just came to me that
this beautiful buoy would be a perfect piece of wood for that bee nesting
box I always wanted to make. The holes are drilled to spec! The orchard
bees have written directions on the internet. The title of my buoy piece is
"Gowdy Bee Nesting Buoy". The different size holes should attract
different size bees. Directions are included with the buoy.
ABOUT CYNTHIA HYDE
Co-owner/director for Caldbeck Gallery with husband Jim Kinnealey.
Studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts. Own a beautiful piece of land on Fish Pond where we provide habitat
for wildlife and a few farm critters.
Jenks, Peter - "Mentor Marker"
Item Number: 17
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"Mentor Marker" - This buoy is a celebration of mentors. It is wrapped in a
prayer for those who have mentored us and who we are opening the door
of possibility. It is also wrapped in a picture (developed courtesy of PDQ
Photo) of the first Trekker trip in May of 1994.
ABOUT PETER JENKS
Peter Jenks is one of the adults on the first Trekker trip and has been
holding the Trekkers in prayer ever since. He is the priest at the Episcopal
Church of St. John Baptist in Thomaston as well as the father of several
Trekkers. Please visit: www.stjohnthomaston.org
Johnson, Kris - "Duck Rock"
Item Number: 18
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"Duck Rock".
ABOUT KRIS JOHNSON
Kris Johnson's interest is in shape, form, and negative space. She hopes for
some small sense of mystery in her paintings, some lyricism and energy in her
compositions. Kris has been painting since 1988. In 1997 she started using
acrylics on a trip to Normandy and Brittany. Now she prefers acrylic because of
its immediacy and since it pollutes neither people nor the environment.
Kris lives part of the year in southwestern France. The balance of her time is
spent in mid-coast Maine where she has been full time for over 30 years and
part-time since World War II. Her work is largely from France and Maine, though
she has shown widely in New England and Europe.
"I have been trying to concentrate on simplifying my paintings for the past few
years. The painters I admire seem to say the most with the greatest economy of
line and paint. The product of this effort should be abstraction. I don't aspire to
complete abstraction; I do aspire to reduce, and then reduce again my shapes to
a simple reflection of an idea. Nicholas DeStael in his late work, is most
successful at this. A letter I received this year from a collector in New Hampshire
touched me a great deal. It explains my work better than I: She says: "I spent
most of the drive home Saturday thinking and wondering on your work - What it
is that pulls me in so totally. The colors, especially the brilliant rust in the '03
pieces, the design and balance are wonderful, but the reason they stay with me
so totally is the unseen dimension you've slipped in - a soul-like quality I can
neither see nor touch, only feel!"
Please visit: http://joansfave.fineartstudioonline.com/articledetail/62
Kaeyer, Lydia - "Race week"
Item Number: 19
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"Race week" - I am known as the artist who likes to paint boats so true to
my calling the buoy subject was inspired by the Marblehead Race Week
of my youth and the Tuesday sailboat races I watch off Rockland Harbor
each week.
ABOUT LYDIA KAEYER
Lydia Kaeyer is a watercolor painter inspired by the wonderful color and
light of the Maine coast. I like to paint the docks, the working boatyards,
local architecture, seascapes, and the many rockbound coasts from
Rockland to Port Clyde and the islands. Many are painted plein air.
Kaeyer is represented by the Art Space Gallery in Rockland.
Please visit: www.lydiakaeyer.com
Kellogg, Frederic - "Torpedo Equipped Near-Space
Patrol Vehicle and Satellite Destroyer"
Item Number: 20
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"Torpedo Equipped Near-Space Patrol Vehicle and Satellite Destroyer".
The buoy looked like it might make a good space ship. So, I created a
space ship with a Bath Iron Works motif inspiration.
ABOUT FREDERIC KELLOGG
Represented by the Caldbeck Gallery, Kellogg is one of a number of
artists engaged in the search for what can be called a contemporary
realism. Like others, he has been deeply influenced by the work of
American realists Edward Hopper and Fairfield Porter, and challenged by
the impact of photography as an art form, as well as the innovations of the
mid-twentieth-century Abstract Expressionists and their aftermath. Kellogg
has exhibited in Washington DC, Richmond VA, and Maine, including
Gallery 68 in Belfast, the O Farrell Gallery in Brunswick, and the Nan
Mulford Gallery in Rockland. He began working with the Caldbeck Gallery
in 2007. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the
Farnsworth Museum and the Portland Museum of Art, MBNA Bank, laws
and financial firms in Boston and Washington, and private collections
throughout the country. More of Kellogg's work can be seen at
www.frederickellogg.com
Please visit: www.caldbeck.com/artist/frederic-kellogg
Kinnealey, Jim - "BUOY CROWD"
Item Number: 21
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"BUOY CROWD" - This long and cold winter I painted portraits. The
smooth surface and round shape of the buoy inspired me to paint BUOY
CROWD.
ABOUT JIM KINNEALEY
I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and moved to Maine in 1976. I
attended the Kansas City Art Institute and achieved a BFA in painting and
printmaking in 1975. My junior year was spent painting in Japan.
Lindsay, Jo - "Not For Use As A Floatation Device"
Item Number: 22
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"Not For Use As A Floatation Device". Glass mosaic.
ABOUT JO LINDSAY
Jo Lindsay mostly works at the local radio station (WRFR 93.3 in
Rockland, Maine) where she hosts 3 radio programs and oversees over
40 volunteers and 50 programs. She does occasional picture framing and
(when motivated) will make art. She is a graduate of The George
Washington University, B.A. Fine Arts.
Please visit: www.jolindsay.com
Lindsay, Steve - "Coastal Tribe Fishing Buoy"
Item Number: 23
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"Coastal Tribe Fishing Buoy" - This buoy was collected from a coastal
tribe, and was probably used to mark the location of a fishing trap. Given
the elaborate designs and lack of signs of wear, it may have been
intended for ceremonial use, although it is completely functional.
ABOUT STEVE LINDSAY
A native of Long Island, New York, I moved to Quebec in my twenties to
study wood sculpture with Pier Bourgault and Herman Raby at the Ecole
de Sculpture sur Bois. Since 1977, I have lived in Tenants Harbor,
sculpting mainly in local wood and stone. My commissions include 5
Maine Percent for Art projects in public buildings.
Please visit: www.stevelindsay.net
Merrill, Otty - "Crow Magnum"
Item Number: 24
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"Crow Magnum" - Who isn’t intrigued by crows? They are often a theme
in my art work. Probably like most of the artists here, the buoy sat on my
worktable over the winter, for months awaiting inspiration. The unfinished
buoy sat propped up in a corner of my worktable, next to the crow. I was
stopped in my tracks one morning as I looked over my shoulder, squinted,
and saw them both as one. Majestically integrated. So often our solutions
are right under our noses if we just pay attention. I love when that
happens.
Sculpture made of unfired Fiber Clay. Surface painted with encaustic
wax, latex paint, gold trim and wire. Not for outdoor use.
ABOUT OTTY MERRILL
Otty is primarily an encaustic painter but her talents and choice of medium
varies. Her encaustics, silkscreens and sculpture can be seen at Gallerythe-Sea in Port Clyde which opened this Spring with 5 other area artists.
She works out of a breathtakingly beautiful oceanside studio in Turkey
Cove and also in Portland at a large cooperative of 55 other professional
artists near Munjoy Hill. This buoy auction was her brainchild.
Currently showing at GALLERY BY THE SEA, which is located next to the
Village Ice Cream store, 875A Port Clyde Rd in Port Clyde, Maine. Please
visit: www.OttyMerrillArt.com
Mort, Greg - "Star Trekkers"
Item Number: 25
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"Star Trekkers" represents the creative adventures and explorations
Trekkers offers guiding young people on a journey to learn about
themselves and others. Our treasured Maine landscape on the buoy
represents the firm foundation that will always keep us afloat as we travel
around the world. The constellations above remind us of the guiding skills
mastered at Trekkers. Our home Maine is marked with a Star.
ABOUT GREG MORT
American artist Greg Mort is widely recognized as a leading influence in
contemporary art. his work is found in prominent private, gallery and
museum collections around the world including the Smithsonian,
Corcoran, Farnsworth, Academy Art, Portland, Brandywine and Stamford
museums. Currently Two Mort Paintings are on exhibition in the White
House. Mort divides his time between his Port Clyde, Maine and Ashton,
Maryland studios.
Please visit: www.gregmort.com
Mort, Jon - "The End of the Line"
Item Number: 26
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The theme of "End of the Line" is that "we are all different but still very
much alike." If we take the time and effort to get to know one another we
will find a part of ourselves in everyone we meet. Looks can be deceiving
and closer study will often reveal a treasure.
ABOUT JON MORT
Millennium artist Jon Mort, a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School
of Design whose art has been featured in over twenty gallery exhibitions.
Critic Robert Aubry Davis offered critical acclaim for Jon's recent oneperson exhibition at the Sandy Spring Museum and featured him on
WETA's Art Around Town. Known for his startlingly realistic graphite
images Jon is also a highly sought after portrait artist. His artwork is
represented by the Carla Massoni Gallery and the Somerville Manning
Gallery.
Please visit: www.JonMortStudio.com
Mumford, Jenifer - "MARYLYN MONROE!"
Item Number: 27
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"MARYLYN MONROE!" - I have been, for some odd reason, collecting the
bands that go around the lobsters' claws, thinking that at some point, there
would be something creative I could use them for. The bands keep the
lobsters safe from each other, come in a variety of colors, and screamed
to be used in this project. To me they are almost like barnacles, or bubbles
from the deep.
ABOUT JENIFER MUMFORD
Art has been a central force in my life ever since I studied with Leonard
Baskin in college and tie-dyed batiks in the bathtub while my children were
growing up. The mysterious forces of nature and the colors and shapes of
Maine, the sea and foreign cities have inspired me, while I earned my
keep teaching art in Boston and Princeton Junction, New Jersey. My work
is on the edge balancing abstraction and realism, and I have been
showing for over a decade at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine.
Please visit: www.jenifermumford.com
Munger, Patsy - "Beach Peeps"
Item Number: 28
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"Beach Peeps" - I love watching the peeps running around on the beaches
of Maine. These sandpiper shorebirds are so much fun to observe and this
was my inspiration for the buoy.
ABOUT PATSY MUNGER
Patsy has been summering in Maine for over 23 years. She and her
husband just moved to Spruce Head, Maine and are looking forward to life
in this beautiful part of the Midcoast.
Murdock, Sylvia - "Down at Marshall Point"
Item Number: 29
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"Down at Marshall Point" - I wanted to paint a seascape that gave people
a sense of place. Why not paint the Marshall Point Lighthouse, since it is
now where I reside and find my inspirations along the coast of the St.
George peninsula. Sylvia's buoy was gessoed first, then painted with
professional grade acrylics. It was then sealed with two coats of
polyurethane.
ABOUT SYLVIA MURDOCK
Sylvia Murdock is primarily a self-taught artist, painting in watercolors for
about 40 years now. For twenty of those years, Sylvia lived and worked
year-round on Monhegan Island. It's there she obtained signature
membership into both the New England and Pennsylvania Watercolor
Societies. Sylvia currently lives in Port Clyde where she has her studio
open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 1-4pm, - and by
appointment. Currently showing at GALLERY BY THE SEA, which is
located next to the Village Ice Cream store, 875A Port Clyde Rd in Port
Clyde, Maine.
Please visit: Facebook page, Sylvia Murdock
Paine, Chuck - "Twelve in the Sun"
Item Number: 30
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"Twelve in the Sun" - I have always loved marine painting. And I have
always loved this class of sailboat- a Herreshoff 12. Never tire of painting
the lovely thing! I actually own one, and it is 77 years old this summer.
ABOUT CHUCK PAINE
Chuck Paine enjoys a worldwide reputation for his creative skills. Like the
French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte before him, he is known both for
his fine art paintings and line drawings and for his elegant yacht designs.
Unlike Caillebotte, Paine began his career with yachts, launching over
1000 vessels whose combined length, if placed end to end, would stretch
more than six beautiful miles. For the past few years, he has applied the
majority of his efforts to pen and ink renderings, watercolors and oil
paintings.
Currently showing at GALLERY BY THE SEA, which is located next to the
Village Ice Cream store, 875A Port Clyde Rd in Port Clyde, Maine.
Please visit: www.painefineart.com and www.chuckpaine.com
Pearlman, George - "I'm Not Singing in the Rain"
Item Number: 31
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"I’m Not Singing in the Rain" - The piece that I created for the Trekkers
auction was a very interesting challenge. The beautifully made wooden
lobster buoy was much higher quality than what I expected when I was
first approached with the idea of decorating a buoy. I thought it would be
one of the Styrofoam buoys and I had all sorts of ideas about making a
mosaic out of the shards I create in my studio from the pieces that do not
work out. But, it was much harder to execute this idea with the hard
wooden buoy and I had it in my studio staring at me for a few weeks when
it dawned on me how many different things it could look like.
I played a game with my family where we each took turns using it for a
different purpose a telephone, a fish dinner, a rocket, an umbrella it was
the umbrella idea that got me the most interested. The title of this piece is
called: I’m Not Singing in the Rain. The face on the figure is based on an
angry baby picture of me and the body is sort of baby proportions with a
toy umbrella perhaps. Now I live in Maine and nobody uses wooden
lobster buoys anymore. So, the history of the buoy which was used when I
was born and did not live here has come to an end and I have been asked
to resurrect this icon from the past and what better form to do it in than
who I was during the time we both thrived simultaneously. There I was, an
angry baby in the sunshine and the buoy spent its numbered days getting
pickled in salt water and maybe on a good day it could take out a propeller
from an absent minded boater.
I made all of the parts of this sculpture on my potter’s wheel so it does
relate to my pottery. I’m Not Singing in the Rain was a really fun project
and an outlier for me. I am happy to help out such a wonderful
organization, the Trekkers. I am also thankful to stretch my creative efforts
from time to time to continue to stretch my ideas about art and beauty.
ABOUT GEORGE PEARLMAN
George Pearlman lives and works at his home studio and gallery, The
George Pearlman Pottery on Route 131 in Saint George, Maine. He has
been making one of a kind pottery for over thirty years and established his
studio here in Maine in 1998. George Pearlman’s work has been shown
nationally and internationally. In 2013 his work was shown at the
Smithsonian in Washington, DC and has also been featured at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and has been recognized as an individual
artist fellow by the Maine Arts Commission. He has been an educator in
fine art at many universities, colleges, art centers and for several years he
has run an apprenticeship program at his studio. You can find out more
about George Pearlman and see his current work by visiting his website
www.georgepearlman.com or visiting his gallery which is open every day
from 11am-5pm until October.
Pinette, Dennis - "Jackson Pollock Buoy"
Item Number: 32
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"Jackson Pollock Buoy" - "I just want to have fun".
ABOUT DENNIS PINETTE
The intersecting geometries of fire, water, industrial installations, and the
woods form the base for Dennis Pinette s paintings. His work is defined by
improvisation layered over direct observation. Four old buildings
overlooking Penobscot Bay serve as home and studio. His wife Megan is
president of the Belfast Historical Society and Museum. Their son Evan is
a mariner and musician.
Mr. Pinette’s subject is landscape, brutal landscape: terrain deformed with
factories or ledges molten from brush fires, forest floors painfully orange
with dead leaves, waves cresting into sucking holes. He does not paint
specific places as much as a complex of emotion and energy; his
landscapes become fictions, concentrated and ambivalent, located
beyond the real world. “I like my work best when it is on the edge of
disintegrating“, he said in a recent conversation, “when the subject almost
disappears, as if the subject is an excuse to paint a dream.” (His) work,
charged with the ecstasy of recording the visual world, is tied to the
romantic tradition. But his landscapes emerge as a state of mind. “I paint
two intersecting geometries”, he said. “The hand of man and the hand of
nature.” Within that tension he locates the sublime.
~Deborah Weisgall. The New York Times, feature article excerpt
9/21/2003
Please visit: www.dennispinette.com
Pomerleau, Angela Anderson - "American Girl,
Dear Life"
Item Number: 33
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"American Girl, Dear Life" - Having a series of circus performers and tents
on my mind, while in line at a shop I browsed a book, and saw an image of
a fashion model dropping from a parachute, and voila! the parachute
echoed the buoy form, and my circus girl would look great on the handle.
I whittled away a bit of a form and then painted her image. I am inspired
by The Flying Wallendas Family Circus, and old fashioned circus
costumes and tents. Stories are the backdrop for my process, books on
CDs accompany me in my studio. The materials are Mixed Media.
ABOUT ANGELA ANDERSON POMERLEAU
Native of Port Clyde, Maine, Angela lived abroad, on the West Coast and
New York City for 25 years before returning to Maine. She has a BFA from
UNH Durham, and has shown her paintings in all the places she has lived.
For a more complete biography and to see paintings from the last four
years, see www.angelaandersonpaintings.com. Anderson teaches
ongoing painting classes at the Thomaston Academy, mornings and
afternoons. Recently a solo exhibit of her work was on view at the
Camden Public Library, and in Portsmouth, NH.
Please visit: www.angelaandersonpaintings.com
Riley, Mimo Gordon - "Sun Break"
Item Number: 34
Value: Priceless
"Sun Break" - Decorating a Maine lobster buoy, and for Trekkers, too!!
What a distinct pleasure. Trees are kind of my thing- that just seemed
natural, that I would paint trees on the buoy. For me, a great connection
between the land and the sea.
ABOUT MIMO GORDON RILEY
After having a photography business, I went back to art school in my late
thirties, and have been painting and showing around New England since
then. I am lucky to split my time between Tenants Harbor and Providence,
Rhode Island. My soul is in Maine.
Please visit: www.mimogordonriley.com
Rosenblum, Carolyn Jones - "St. George Bell Buoy"
Item Number: 35
Value: Priceless
"St. George Bell Buoy" - The beauty of the natural landscape has always
inspired my art. The inspiration for "St. George Bell Buoy" came from a
photo that I took of a field in Martinsville on a late afternoon in August. I
loved the contrast of the golden grasses and the dark blue of the water.
The old sleigh bell was found on our farm in Virginia.
ABOUT CAROLYN JONES ROSENBLUM
Carolyn has been painting for most of her life, primarily in oils. She and
her husband John have been coming to Maine for more than forty years
and now divide their time between their home on the St. George River and
a small farm in Virginia near the Blue Ridge Mountains. They have three
grown children (two of whom live in Maine) and five grandchildren.
Runquist, Bjorn - "Bakongo Blowfish Buoy"
Item Number: 36
Value: Priceless
"Bakongo Blowfish Buoy" - The buoy was inspired by the African masks
and sculptures that I first saw at the flea market in Paris 30 years ago and
have since seen many times in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York. The nail fetishes are used to influence the spirits and control others.
I played with the idea of making my own nail sculpture and the shape of
the buoy inspired the idea of a sculpture as a buoy, as blow fish and as
nail sculpture.
ABOUT BJORN RUNQUIST
I have a BA from Colgate U. and upon completion of college I moved to
London, England. After four years in London and receiving a Master's
degree from Kings College, University, of London. I have been a teacher
and artist for the past 35 years, dividing my time between CT and Maine. I
am now a full time resident of Maine. I have worked in a variety of
medium and styles; landscapes, still lives, abstract, oil, mixed-media,
pastel. I have work in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Museum
and have exhibited widely in galleries on the East Coast from Florida to
Maine, including the Caldbeck in Rockland, the Connecticut Biennial at the
Bruce Museum in Greenwich, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in
Rockport, and the Allan Stone Gallery in New York. I am in many private
and corporate collections and have a number of paintings in the State
Department s Arts in Embassies program which places art in U.S.
Embassies around the world. I am currently represented by Landing
Gallery in Rockland, ME. and Horton Hayes in Charleston, SC. I was
featured in Maine Home & Design in April 2010 and listed as one of
Maine’s 60 artists to collect now, while you can. I was also featured again
in Maine Home & Design in the August 2010 issue.
Please visit: www.bjornrunquist.com
Sinclair, Marnie - "Squid Rider"
Item Number: 37
Value: Priceless
"Squid Rider"- When I saw the buoy it immediately reminded me of a
squid - I worked in collaboration with cousin Dan West, a master sculptor
who is represented by the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland. I found the tiny
squid rider and thought it would be perfect. Kind of like Ahab and the
White Whale. We had fun with this project, particularly as it was
transforming from a buoy to a squid!
ABOUT MARNIE SINCLAIR
I am a process artist who works primarily as a sculptor, although recently
I've started oil painting again. I moved to Maine last July from Martha's
Vineyard where most of my creative work was involved with the making of
videos that related to water issues on the island. I'm just now opening my
own gallery, The Sinclair Gallery at 172 Bristol Rd. in Damariscotta. I'm
part of a consortium of four artists who are neighbors and who all have
galleries - we are called "The Bristol Road Galleries". My sculpture of
animal art can be seen at the Ducktrap Bay Trading Co. on Main Street in
Camden, and my oils at the Pemaquid Artist Group Gallery across from
the lighthouse in Bristol.
Please visit: www.marniesinclair.net
Skinner, Wickham - "The Fisherman's Delight: A
Bait Catching Pot Buoy"
Item Number: 38
Value: Priceless
"The Fisherman's Delight: A Bait Catching Pot Buoy" - As a professor of
technology and industrial management, I seek always to improve the
productivity of any equipment. A lobster pot, properly modified, could be
more productive if it could also catch bait fish! Not just lobsters.
ABOUT WICKHAM SKINNER
Wickham Skinner is a Yale Engineering Graduate and also attended
Harvard Business School. He spent 10 years at Honeywell Corporation, in
production, marketing and finance. For the past 28 years, he has been a
professor at Harvard Business School. He has lived in Maine since 1981.
Sullivan, Barbara - "Trekking by The Ferns"
Item Number: 39
Value: Priceless
"Trekking by The Ferns" - I was thinking of Trekkers, riding bicycles and
on foot. So, I pictured them walking through and biking by ferns in the
spring and summer.
ABOUT BARBARA SULLIVAN
Barbara Sullivan is a fresco painter and educator. She has received grants
from the Pollock/Krasner Foundation and also the Adolf and Esther
Gottlieb Foundation. She has been included in three Portland Museum of
Art Biennials. She loves the outdoors and is passionate about cooking and
food sources.
Please visit: www.caldbeck.com/artist/barbara-sullivan
van der Ven, Simon "Siem" - "Holy Buoy"
Item Number: 40
Value: Priceless
"Holy Buoy" - With this piece, as with much of my work, I played with
notions of decay, pattern, use and beauty.
ABOUT SIMON "SIEM" VAN DER VEN:
I am an artist and educator. I am married to Kate Braestrup. Our home
and studios are in Lincolnville. Between us, we have six marvelous
children, one of whom, Peter, benefited greatly from Trekkers.
Please visit: www.vandervenstudios.com
Weisman, Sandy - "Zoom Zoom Buoy"
Item Number: 41
Value: Priceless
"Zoom Zoom Buoy" - spray paint and laquer.
ABOUT SANDY WEISMAN
I am primarily a maker of artist's books and mixed media collages, and a
poet as well. I also run 26 Split Rock Cove - a private artist retreat and
workshop space in South Thomaston.
Please visit: www.26splitrockcove.com
Wilder Oakes, Charles - "Our Town & Fireflies,
Flutters and Wings"
Item Number: 42
Value: Priceless
"Our Town & Fireflies, Flutters and Wings" - I met a girl - a woman,
recently, who reminded me of the angel I saw when I was two and a half
years old and I went up to talk to her. Turns out she knows a lot about
angels, too. We talked for almost eight hours and I came home with this
image strongly in my mind's eye, so I painted it onto the buoy, which was
handy. It's all about the start of something much bigger. C. Wilder Oakes,
June 13th, 2014.
ABOUT CHARLES WILDER OAKES
I was born in the old Knox Hospital in Rockland, and raised in Port Clyde,
America. I've always drawn on the inspirations my hometown has
provided, but always with an eye towards the bigger picture, the
universal/transcendent. I strive for themes that transcend physical space
and time, and my hope is to reach for a spiritual setting the viewer can
trace roots to.
Currently showing at GALLERY BY THE SEA, Port Clyde, Maine, which is
located next to the Village Ice Cream store, at 875A Port Clyde Rd.
Please visit: www.wilderoakes.com and www.portclydeme.com.
Winslow, Kitty Sweet - "A Mermaid's Tale"
Item Number: 43
Value: Priceless
"A Mermaid s Tale" - I was inspired by the innate beauty of the buoy .Its
shape and its construction. The sea called to me to create a fantastical
mermaid with a gorgeous, pink body, a green stripped tail, and yellow,
ropey air. For further information, my website is: www.Kittywinslow.com.
ABOUT KITTY SWEET WINSLOW
Nearly three years ago, my husband and I moved to Maine from
Connecticut. I have been an artist/teacher all my life. I have shown my
work thru out New England and New York. I have a wonderful studio in
downtown Rockland. I welcome this opportunity to support the Trekke’ s
and be part of a great arts community and a long connection with the sea.
Please visit: www.kittywinslow.com
Wissemann, John - "Not for Lobsters"
Item Number: 44
Value: Priceless
"Not for Lobsters"
ABOUT JOHN WISSEMANN
I live in Cushing summer and fall. In collection of the Farnsworth Art
Museum and other public and private collections. Currently working on a
series called "Working Waterfront" to be shown in Camden 2015.
Wissemann-Widrig, Nancy - "St. Georges River"
Item Number: 45
Value: Priceless
"St. Georges River" - This buoy painting was inspired by the stretch of the
St. George River I see from my porch where in mid-summer I can count
800 buoys.
ABOUT NANCY WISSEMAN-WIDRIG
Painting in Maine since 1968. Work is in several public and corporate
collections including the Farnsworth and Portland Museums in Maine.
Most recent publicity: Maine Home & Design April 2014 by Britta Konau.
Please visit: www.wissemann-widrig.com
Ziegler, Judith - "Water and Wood"
Item Number: 46
Value: Priceless
"Water and Wood" - When I first held the buoy in my hands I was taken
with the grace and beauty of the simple object as well as the lovely,
evident pattern the grain of the wood. I thought of the hand work of the
maker of this object and the natural beauty of Maine, where the pines
meet the water's edge. In painting the buoy I explored all of the colors of
the water and reflected light as I followed the pattern of the wood grain.
ABOUT JUDITH ZIEGLER
Judith Ziegler is an artist in Boston, Massachusetts, and maintains a
studio in the Fort Point section of that city. She is a founding member of
the Tudor Street Print Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work is in
the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Harvard Art
Museums, the Boston Public Library Print Collection, the Danforth
Museum and many private collections. After a long career in graphic
design she is currently concentrating on works on paper, collage and book
arts.
Ziesing, Lucinda - "magic buoy"
Item Number: 47
Value: Priceless
”magic buoy” - Thinking about the magic buoy cut loose in Penobscot Bay
traveling seas at night to arrive in Istanbul. You see trinkets of adventure.
You don t see the secret of engagement that keeps it all afloat. Homage to
Don's proposal of marriage to Sheryl.
ABOUT LUCINDA ZIESING
Lucinda Ziesing is an activist, artist, actress, writer and producer. She
currently serves on the Boards of Camden International Film Festival
(CIFF) and the Cape Eleuthera Foundation.
Please visit: www.lucindaziesing.com