Category: Waldoboro
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery features Asian brush paintings
Currently Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery is featuring Asian brush paintings. Chinese brush painting is believed to be one of the oldest continuing artistic traditions in the world. It has been practiced since around 770 BCE, when artists in the Eastern Zhou dynasty began to depict the natural world. Brush painting and calligraphy have been […]
‘Triumph and Pursuit’ at Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery
One culture’s/country’s/leader’s yearning for freedom is historically countered by another culture’s quest to control it. Look around at wars and politics in our world. Jean Kigel’s watercolor “To the Victor” symbolizes this phenomenon. In the painting, a stork has seized the prize, but the specter of a raptor isn’t far behind. This painting, and those […]
Lisa Dombek’s work on view at two shows
“Celebrate Friendship Artists” 2024 Friendship Day Exhibition Salt Pond Studio, 522 Cushing Road, Friendship Contact: Pam Cabañas, [email protected], 207-681-5787 Gallery opens on July 18 Opening event: 3 to 8 p.m. July 19 Works by Sam Cady, Joanie Betterley, Lisa Dombek, Pam Cabanas, Brian Woods, Cheryl McAlister, David Kapp, Cecily Kahn, Jeremy Barnard, Dave Kopp and […]
UMVA’s ‘Life is a Carnival’ show and film will open at Waldo Theatre in July
“Life is a Carnival: from the Figurative to the Abstract,” a UMVA (Union of Maine Visual Artists) art exhibition, opens at the Waldo Theatre, 916 Main St., Waldoboro, on July 6 and runs to Aug. 4. Over a dozen artists are showing prints, photography, paintings and more in the spirit of one of UMVA founders, […]
‘Paddle Season’ at Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery
This May, Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery presents “Paddle Season,” a series of paintings about paddling. The featured painting, “Aim High, Aim Deep, Aim Far,” is something she painted for the Trekkers fundraiser. Using gesso and oil paint, she transformed the waters of Muscongus Bay, the peaks of the Camden Mountains, and the constellations of […]
UMVA Midcoast update
Twenty members showed up at the March 9 UMVA member meeting at the Camden Public Library, where they decided they’d meet bi-monthly, alternating between Belfast Free Library and Camden Public Library. When inclement weather precludes meeting in person, they meet via Zoom. There are several shows on the books for UMVA members beginning in July. […]
‘Storm Recovery: Watercolors of Salvage’ on view at Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery in Waldoboro presents paintings of a rite of spring. In this case, spring housecleaning is nature’s scouring the shores. The show, “Storm Recovery,” features a watercolor of rusty chains titled “Salvage.” In this painting, mooring chains from docks and floats, having been wrenched loose by recent storm surges and extracted […]
Celebrate the first stirrings of spring at Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery
Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro welcomes visitors as winter eases into spring and sap becomes syrup. Featured is “Sugaring,” a watercolor celebrating Maine’s annual maple sugar rite, culminating in Maine Maple Sunday at the end of March. Kigel is a member of the Sumi-e Society of America and […]
‘Migration’ at Jean Kigel Studio + Gallery
Jean Kigel Studio and Gallery in Waldoboro is showing “Migration,” a collection of paintings reflecting both the change of season and movement of people worldwide. Watercolors and oils depict flocks of birds arising from trees as leaves blow in the wind, and small sumi-e paintings abstractly symbolize migrants wandering across empty terrain. Jean Kigel Studio […]
Jean Kigel solo exhibition ‘Coastal Muse’ at The Osprey
During October, The Osprey, at 340 Robinhood Road in Georgetown, will present “Coastal Muse,” paintings by Jean Kigel. Twenty paintings span the coast from scenes of surf in Schoodic to scenes of beaches in Wells. Fish houses and wooden dories accent her seascapes. Some paintings derive from Kigel’s kayak expeditions and others from her hikes. […]
