Archive for painters
John Neville
John Neville’s nostalgic works of art of bygone days chronicle the folklore and daily lives of the local fishermen and their women from his childhood village. This popular Canadian artist, who splits his time between Nova Scotia and Maine, is a painter, printmaker and story teller who has engaged collectors throughout his long career with [...]
Read moreMark Haltof
I began painting in Maine in the mid 70′s. With a group of artist friends, I came for summers of painting the Maine landscape. The trips would focus on Maine’s rocky coast and its many islands. I relocated to Maine in 1984 with my wife Susan and our two daughters Jeannette and Julia. I [...]
Read moreJohn Charles Angelopoulos
When the visionary mind of John Charles Angelopoulos meets the canvas, Greek mythology and religion are transformed into surreal, figurative images. You will find his work both thought provoking and entertaining. Greek heritage is omnipresent when viewing John’s art. His lineage was ingrained by his mentor, Robert J. Andrews, who is himself an internationally acclaimed [...]
Read moreSally Ladd Cole
Having always lived in rural New Hampshire, I observe with great concern the ever dwindling fields, farms, marshes and forests that I grew up loving and taking for granted. Through my paintings I hope to bring awareness to the irreplaceable beauty of this rural country and open Atlantic shoreline. These everyday scenes of marshes, meadows, forests and farmland, so filled [...]
Read moreSantiago Martinez
Santiago was born on August 10, 1963 in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he was raised and resides today. He grew up with a strong indigenous influence; his father, Zapoec and his mother, Mixe. As a child, Santiago remembers his father painting portraits. His father had no formal art training and painted purely for pleasure. In his [...]
Read moreImero Gobbato
Imero Gobbato was born in Italy in 1923 during the brief hiatus between the spasms of global war. He studied the art of painting in Milan and Venice where he became associated with the Italian Neo-Impressionists, artistic cousins of the French painters Seurat and Signac. Gordon King, a poet and novelist, has written of [...]
Read moreIgor Galanin
As a successful artist, book illustrator and theatrical designer in the former Soviet Union, Igor Galanin enjoyed professional success and recognition-without freedom of expression. Yet he had an inner mechanism that understood what freedom was all about. Within his personal, painted kingdom, Galanin let freedom ring. If he wanted a chair to rest on water [...]
Read moreDavid Blackwood
Born in 1941, David Blackwood grew up in a small Newfoundland fishing village where education was highly valued and storytelling was an art form. Listening to stories about the seal hunt and the lives of his neighbors influenced the kind of art Blackwood would produce later in life. In 1959, he obtained a scholarship to [...]
Read moreCabot Lyford
Cabot Lyford, 81, lives in New Harbor and works in stone, bronze, and wood, with much of his inspiration coming from nature and the female human form. His sculptures can be found in many museums throughout the U.S., and his large, public pieces-such as the graceful dolphins in front of Portland’s Regency Hotel and the [...]
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