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Interview with Mary Anne Lloyd

Mary Anne Lloyd makes Portland smile wide. Her illustrations can be found throughout the city, on various packages, signs and products. Her distinctive style is cheerful (with the occasional “Ack!” balloon quote). She captures the expressions and postures of creatures in a way that tells us she knows them well and speaks their language. In a city that []…

Interview with Peter Ralston

Peter Ralston, Dick and Nate, 2012 Peter Ralston is an old friend and one of my favorite photographers. His love of the Maine islands is evident in his work. I’ve always been amazed at how someone “from away” could capture the essence of the islands and the island people in one image. He sees the beauty in the []…

Angela’s Interview with artist Honour Mack

Some paintings shout. Others whisper. One might dance, while another haunts. Honour Mack’s paintings float. They move slowly out of the corner of your eye. Layers deep within her paintings, find their way to the surface as light changes. There’s an ethereal quality to Honour’s paintings that I find mysteriously comforting. Unexpected color. We live []…

Interview with Lissa Hunter

Lissa Hunter is one of the wisest people I know. I’ve learned many things over the years, talking with Lissa while she coils baskets and shares some of her wisdom without knowing she’s doing so. She is a craftsperson, a sculptor, a writer, a painter, a drawer and a teacher among many other things. Her studio []…

Interview with Alice Spencer

Yardage #1, Alice Spencer , acrylic and gesso on sand on board , 29″ x 41″, 2011 One of the things that I find fascinating about an artist is learning what they are most passionate about. In those learnings lie the core of their inspirations and the roots of their work. Alice Spencer has a passion for textiles, []…

Interview with Glenn Bartley

Marvelous Spatuletail Glenn Bartley has designed a very inspiring life for himself. He is a world renowned nature photographer and travels the world photographing rare birds and other interesting creatures. Living in British Columbia provides him with endless birding opportunities and an understanding of Northern migrators and the coastal birds that inhabit the cold waters there. He []…

Angela’s Interview with Maine Artist Tom Hall

For the 18 years that we had our studios, shop and business on Congress Street in Portland, Maine we had the luxury of sharing that building with Tom Hall. Tom was a featured artist in our new Studio Showroom. His work transforms the spaces it inhabits and layers on a depth of soul that whispers []…

Comme Des Garçones

Comme des Garçons was founded in 1973 by Japanese artist and stylist, Rei Kawakubo. The company is known for anti-fashion, with beautiful textiles in crisp deconstructed cuts often with frayed raw edges and voluminous fabrics enveloping the body. Kawakubo is as much a graphic designer as she is a stylist, artist, interior designer and fashion designer. The []…

Native Line by Justine Ashbee

I fell in love with Justine Ashbee’s work the first time I ever laid eyes on it. Her weavings are textural, elegant and beautiful crafted. We’re thrilled to be carrying her pieces in our retail store and urge you to come by and see them in person. — angela “Expanding her horizons as an artist, Justine []…

Interview with Marianne Lesko

When did you first get interested in designing spaces? I think my earliest pretend games were designing my bedroom at my childhood home. I was a fashion design major in college and loved it, but my friends would walk into my dorm room at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and tell me that []…

Yayoi Kasuma

Yayoi Kusama’s work is powerful and mind bending. Since the age of 10, as a child growing up in Japan she has had hallucinations and visions that she has turned into vibrant works of art. Her dreams have informed paintings and sculptures. Her life and work are full of stories and wild interpretations of her []…

Marsden Hartley

Celebrating mountains and Maine in this weeks posts gives us the opportunity to learn more about one of Maine’s greatest modern painters, Marsden Hartley. Born in Lewiston in 1877, Marsden Hartley’s early years in Maine were a struggle. He left Maine and lived in Europe, New Mexico, New York, California, and Massachusetts. His life was full []…

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