Meet The Artists 2024
Meet our 2024 Nature's Canvas Artists!
Visit the artist on KLT trails to observe them creating their vision of our beautiful trails.
Join us at the Colony Hotel on July 25th for our Summer Soiree event and auction!
Take nature home with you!
Linda will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve on Friday, the 21st from approximately 1 o'clock onwards.
Parking is along Route 9, in the small parking area or along the road.
Linda Cersosimo
Visit: lindacersosimo.com
Linda Cersosimo is an artist and fine arts professor. She creates art in several mediums including acrylic paint, encaustic, watercolor, mixed media, collage, monotype, etching and silkscreen. She also teaches multiple art courses at Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, NH, where she is an adjunct professor in the Fine Arts Department. Linda received the President’s Award for Outstanding Adjunct Professor at Great Bay
Community College in 2019. Read more...
Patricia will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve on June 21st between 9am-1pm. Rain date will be June 22nd at the same time.
Patricia Tewes Richards
Visit: www.patriciatewes.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patriciatewes
Patricia grew up on Long Island, New York USA. going to the beach with her family and spending a great deal of time in nature. She is interested in coastal environments, living in Maine and Florida.
Patricia wanted to be both an artist and a doctor since childhood. She went to medical school and became an anesthesiologist and researcher while drawing and painting in her spare time. After raising two daughters and having a career as a doctor and medical researcher, she studied painting at the New York Studio School, the Art Institute of Chicago, and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Patricia’s subject matter, people, and the natural environment, is inspired by her background in biology and medicine. As a physician, she’s interested in human relationships as well as the body. She studied human anatomy intensively to further her work as an anesthesiologist performing nerve blocks, often using drawing techniques to understand the structures of the body. This led to her interest in figurative drawing.
Patricia is a member of the Women’s Contemporary Artists of Sarasota, a signature member of the National Association of Women’s Artists, and the Art Center Sarasota.
Wade will be painting at Alewive Preserve working on the 21st and 22nd from 10 -12PM.
Off the main trail before the first cross path.
Wade Zahares
Artist and children’s book illustrator Wade Zahares works out of his studio on his small farm in southern Maine just outside of Kennebunk where he grew up. He takes inspiration for his whimsical landscapes from the rolling hills surrounding his studio and the creatures that live there. A graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, Zahares’ work has been singled out by Time Magazine and The New York Times as among the very best picture books of 1998. His work is sold through selected galleries throughout New England, is in many private and corporate collections, and the permanent collection at the Decordova Museum of Art in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His 8th picture book, “Frosty The Snowman” Performed by Kenny Loggins, published by Charlesbridge was released this past year.
Doris will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve Friday, June 21st between 1:00 and 4:00 pm.
Parking is along Route 9, in the small parking area or along the road.
Doris Porell
I became interested in art at a very early age starting with drawing and taking a few lessons in oil painting. I did not pursue this interest until much later in life when it became apparent that, after raising a family and co-operating a family business, time would finally allow me to develop this ability that turned into a passion. I am self-taught for the most part; however, I have taken instruction from award-winning artists, namely Tania Amazeen-Jones (acrylic and pastel) and Claudette Gamache (pastel). I have also attended many various art workshops in both the Southern Maine area as well as in Arizona. I enjoy creating landscapes and seascapes using vibrant colors working mostly from my own photographs and plein air. Read more...
Lizzie will be painting at Kennebunk Wildlife Management area on Friday the 21st from around 10 am on.
On Saturday the 22nd, she will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve
Lizzie Abelson
Instagram: @lizzieabelson_artist
A New England native, Lizzie was born (1971) and raised in Suffield, Connecticut. She went on from there to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, spending her junior year abroad with RISD’s European Honors Program. She currently lives in Boylston, Massachusetts.
Primarily a studio artist, Lizzie is also a fair-weather plein air painter. Her artistic focus has shifted over the years from figurative work to botanical illustration to small, intimate landscapes. Her most recent paintings depict spaces that feel at once familiar and foreign. Occasionally, a piece will drift off into abstraction. She is drawn to liminality, quiet colors, strong compositional elements, and balanced arrangements of perfect imperfections that invite the viewer in while also evoking a subtle sense of mystery, unease, or aloneness. Wanderlust and daydreamy escapism move in tandem as a constant undercurrent.
Christina will be painting with Linda Cerosimo on Friday, June 21st from 1pm on at Madelyn Marx
Christina Davis
Visit: www.christinadavispaintings.
I grew up in the rural part of Westbrook, Maine in a small blue house, surrounded by wide open fields where I kept my horse. I went to college at the Portland School of Art. There I majored in painting and later attended classes in painting and jewelry design at Texas Tech University. After my education I pursued a career as a Jeweler but never stopped painting.
I now reside in Scarborough where the beauty of the beaches, trees, and open marsh fields called me back to painting on a full-time basis. My heritage also inspires my artwork. As a child, my family and I visited our cottage on the beautiful red sand beaches of Prince Edward Island. Now, with a family of my own, I make the trek to the Island each year to paint En plein air. Painting landscapes gives me a freedom to use broader brush strokes and play with the natural light of the time of day.
When starting a painting, the energy in the brush strokes provoke a movement and a commitment from me as a painter to my viewers. While immersed in the process of painting, and even just observing the scenic beauty of driving down a road, I see the world in mixtures of color, shapes, light, and contrast. My goal as a painter is to capture the essence of the beauty I see. I strive to translate these complexities and peace of the natural world around us through my art. I love keeping my mind open to expand this process each day.
I paint with oil, acrylic or pastel, really enjoying what each medium has to offer. I tend to let the subject matter and “what feel I want to go after” dictate which process I will use. I would describe my paintings as vivid landscapes of places I have a connection to. Whether I am in my studio or outside working fast to capture the moment, my paintings tell a story of where life has taken me, and sometimes, where I want to be.
Norma will be painting Friday afternoon 2:00 to 4:00 and Saturday morning 9:00 to 11:00 at the Sea Road off of the Bridle Path.
Norma Johnsen
Norma grew up in New Hampshire, studied art at Rhode Island School of Design, married, children, etc, divorced, etc, got a PhD in English, taught writing and literature in the University of Maine system.
Despite the circuitous journey, she became an artist, finally. She belongs to various local arts organizations (PSME, PSNH, UMVA, MWA), and shows her work locally in Southern Maine and on Peaks Island, and occasionally win awards.
Mostly, she paints the images in my head, and these usually involve people, not landscapes. She works in pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and oil. Although my paintings are more-or-less realistic, and won awards for “abstract art.”
My best paintings start with accidents. She focuses on color and pattern and see what evolves.
Given the random characteristics of much of her work, plein air painting, out in nature, is an incredible relief. She makes a rough sketch of what is in front of me and just keep going. She doesn't study the view, but somehow just being “in it” changes everything.
Mary will painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve on Friday, June 21st, from 2-4p.m.
Mary Greto-Brunner
Instagram: @marygb29
I am a native New Yorker now based in Southern Maine. I continue to do some sea and landscapes but have been exploring abstraction for the past year. I find it freeing and complex at the same time. It’s a challenge.
I use the principles of design I learned over a career as a fashion designer, interior designer, and floral designer. My career was focused on designing and creating for others. Now I focus on art for art’s sake.
Cheryl will be painting at Madelyn Marx on Sunday June 23 from 11 - 3p .m.
Cheryl Hughes
Visit: www.tinkerscartartart.com
https://www.facebook.com/tinkerscartart
In my artistic practice, the allure of plein air painting has become an integral aspect of my creative process. The immersive experience of capturing nature's fleeting moments en plein air allows me to translate the essence of a scene onto canvas, infusing my work with an authentic sense of spontaneity and vitality. Through my artwork, I strive to offer viewers a glimpse into the world as I perceive it, inviting them to share in the emotions and experiences that inspire my creations.
Bruce McMillan, VWS, IWS
bruce@brucemcmillan.com | www.theartofbruce.blogspot.com
After a career as a photo-illustrator I evolved to watercolors, to interpreting what I see rather than recording it. I paint both plein air and from my photos. I paint almost daily and post to my blog, even if it's merely a sketch.
I'm a Signature Member of the Vermont Watercolor Society (VWS), a member of the Icelandic Watercolor Society, the Plein Air Painters of Maine, and the Art Guild of the Kennebunks (Maine). I'm fortunate to have had a successful career in children's books with more than forty-five published garnering many honors and awards, all but two illustrated with my photography. I live in Maine while continuing my visual journey.
I've published a limited-edition watercolor calendar since 2013. When painting, my mind hears the voice of my sometimes-fellow painter grandson Teague, "It's a painting; you can do anything." And also, the voice of fellow painters, "Keep it fresh," and "Stop, it's done."
Cheryl will be painting at Butler Preserve near Picnic Rock from 9:00-11:00 am on Saturday 6/22.
Cheryl Janse
Cheryl Janse splits her time between Cape Cod and Sanford, Maine. She paints oil landscapes en plein air and in studio. She is drawn to old things such as the curve of a boat or the lines of a building and she enjoys painting in iconic spots where the dirt is worn by artists that stood before her. She recently retired from teaching kindergarten to paint full-time. Painting has been a life-long pursuit and passion and she has studied with many artists with a focus on color at the Cape School and composition on Monhegan Island with Don Stone. She earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Renaissance art in their European honors program in Rome.
Mary will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve on June 21st from 3-6pm.
Mary Bryrom
Visit: www.marybyrom.com
Instagram :marybyromfineart
Facebook:Mary Byrom Fine Art
Mary Byrom is an award-winning, internationally exhibited artist well known for her sensitive, elegant interpretations of wild, beautiful places. She paints outdoors all year, capturing Plein air paintings of the landscape that are brought back to the studio where they become the inspiration for large landscape paintings. She paints en plein air in every season and in any place that inspires her. She has favorite spots where she can be found painting throughout all of the New England states, the south eastern United States and in numerous areas in the western states of the United States.
Mary has received awards for paintings, sculpture and packaging design, and has participated in invitational solo and group shows nationally and internationally. She has been featured in Plein Air magazine, Southwest Art magazine, Portland Press Herald, and numerous other publications.
She is a popular instructor of Plein air and studio landscape painting in oil, acrylic, gouache and watercolor and The Traveling Sketchbook, multi media plein air sketching in the seacoast area of Maine and New Hampshire.
Her home and studio are in North Berwick, Maine.
Andrea will be painting at Madelyn Marx Preserve Friday, June 21st from 3-5pm with follow-up visits anticipated.
Andrea Roth Kimmich
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreakimmichinthearts/andreakimmichinthearts
So many art forms and enterprises demand and compete for my attention, and I dabble in many. It's the art of transformation that appeals to me most, and the joy in making something from nothing. The restoration of older homes has been a pastime of mine but so is making a gazpacho with fresh produce, a gypsy vest of others' leftover yarns, or a painting using discarded paints and wood.
My paintings are acrylic and/or oil on wood custom selected for each piece. In actuality, though, it's the wood that determines what’s to go on it. Call me a wood-whisperer. I am.
Some pieces of wood speak louder and more clearly than others, but most have a story, and all can tell one. I’m happy to bring them to life, based on landscapes profoundly dear or familiar to me, ones that draw me in, some over and over again.
I’m a relative newcomer to the area, especially by Maine standards, and have had most of my showings in New York’s greater metropolitan area. I’m delighted to have moved a part of my focus to Maine and its spectacular landscapes, indulged myself with a sola show with 90 pieces up at Kennebunk Free Library’s Speers Gallery last year, along with numerous other showings in Lewiston’s Munka Gallery, Gooserocks’ Community Center, the Buoy Gallery in Kittery, and Kennebunkport’s Graves Library, and Masonic Lodge under the banner of the Maine Women in the Arts.
In my role as environmental activist and advocate I was particularly delighted to be part of Kennebunk’s Brick Store Museum’s recent “Earthly Observations” Exhibit as it engendered my passion for community building and collaborative artwork in the context of celebrating and caring for our environment in the face of the climate change pandemic. I am likewise thrilled to participate in Kennebunk Land Trust’s “Nature’s Canvas Unveiled” event.
Bev will be painting Friday June 21st at the Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area From 10:00 a.m. on, and at Madelyn Marx Preserve Saturday June 22nd from 10:00 a.m. on.
Beverly McCarthy
bevmccarthyart@gmail.com
Beverly McCarthy is a New England native, enjoying the beauty of Maine in the summer, and a rural small town in Massachusetts in the winter surrounded by apple orchards and local farms.
Her love and gift of creativity started as a child and bloomed over the decades. She has had art in her blood from a very young age, always having paper and pencil nearby.
After completing college with a degree in Commercial Art/Advertising Design, she had a successful career as an Art Director and Graphic Designer. Her artistic endeavors flowed simultaneously with her career and her work evolved into a multitude of fields and mediums. Currently, her interests include Watercolor, Acrylics, and Mixed Media.
Her work focuses on capturing aspects of nature, botanicals, the ocean and landscapes, and the shapes, textures, and colors related to it.
Currently, she is the owner of Bev McCarthy Art and she pursues her love of painting and mixed media, while enjoying the creative side of travel and outdoor sketching.
L.M. Turner
My art interests have been an ongoing journey across the country and around the world. From the Gallery of Modern Art and the Phillips-Bourne Collection in Washington, D.C. to galleries in San Francisco, Saigon, Boston and Maine. In Maine, I am associated with a multi gallery business.
My media have includes dry and oil pastels, acrylics, oils, Chinese Ink, archival paper creations, pottery, cold wax, print making and silk screening, basket weaving and stained glass. There are no limitations to what I will try.
Memberships in Maine have included Maine Women in the Arts, Saco Bay Artists, Pastel Society of Maine, and the Maine All-Inclusive Pastel Society. In the 2017 Pastel Society International Juried Show I received recognition and a show prize. I was invited to be the Judge for the Art Guild of the Kennebunks Annual Juried Show in 2017.