MAINE DISCOVERY AUCTION NOV. 17th

Saturday, November 17th, 2012 is the  the Maine Discovery Children's Museum annual dinner & art auction in Bangor, it's their tenth!   Really cool, I love it that art is able to help such a valuable resource for our children...the Discovery Museum is just wonderful. The museum asks different area artists to  participate by donating a work of art keeping with a particular theme chosen for that years. This year it is "Maine Discovery". This is all taking place at the Hilton Garden Inn, 250 Haskell Road, Bangor. Although, I've donated work for the auction before, this will be the first time that i will be attending in person...and very jazzed about it! You can check it out at www.mainediscoverymuseum.org 

It should be lots of fun and certainly a great cause and so you might want to see if you could go yourself.

Been searching for the photo of my entry, "Mermaid with Red Fish", which I know I took but where is it? Oh well... :-(  sorry, wish I could share it with you but here is my artist statement:

Mermaid with Red Fish

Mixed Media

Mermaids hold a special place in our imaginations. Free, beautiful, and creative, mermaids inhabiting both the land and the sea become symbols for integrated intelligence (land) and feelings (water). Comfortable and knowledgeable in many words yet unified within herself, the Mermaid has a blissful heart and remains constantly enchanted by life. What better representative of the Discovery Museum than a Mermaid along with her side-kick, the Red Fish….

Artist Statement/Bio

Art, for me, seems to be a meditation on my world. I live on an island in Passamaquoddy Bay where nature is very large. Mythic creatures, animals, people, mostly female, and the human hybrids that I create with found-objects, all become personas and voices for the spirit of nature. A believer in the restorative powers of Art, Beauty, Nature, and our Human Imagination.

Moving in the late 1960’s from N.Y.C. to rural Maine as a back-to-the-land hippie, the idealism and the search for renewing meaning & identity of those times, remains with me.

My formal training began by studying sculpture with Jose DeCreeft at The Art Students League of New York in the 60’s; after that I attended The Cooper Union School of Art & Architecture. Later I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Maine Galleries
Maine Art, Kennebunkport, ME
Maine Art Shows, Kennebunkport, ME
Harbor Square Gallery, Rockport, ME
Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, Belfast, ME
The Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
The Eastport Gallery, ME
Breakwater Gallery, Eastport, ME
Ostrander Studio Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME (1987 to closing in 2012)

Florida Gallery
Cocco & Salem Imagine Art, Key West, FL