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Kennebunk River Club Art Show
Evening Photo Essay
Preview Reception, August 13, 2022
The Kennebunk River Club's 65th Art Show and Sale was full of fine art, both buildings, enriching to behold. The best part was seeing good friends from our figure drawing group. We haven't painted in person since the start of the pandemic. So fine to see Annie Hidell, Elizabeth Kelley, Brad Maushart, and Russell Whitten. -Bruce
(top center)
One to Cape Porpoise Pier
Bruce McMillan
Watercolor on paper, $350 SOLD
With Annie Hidell (left), a fabulous artist from our long-time pre-Covid fabulous figure painting group who wrote after this event, "Great to see you last night! ... Was so nice to be out and see so many, almost overwhelming! Joy!" Annie expressed how all of our group's artists felt.
Keeper's Green
Berri Kramer
Acrylic on canvas, $2,100
Best in Show: Strong, spare and clean. A precise and concise use of planes, form, color and light to create a moment in space. Bold simplicity and execution. A beautiful and elegant example of less becoming so much more.
Rocks Must See
Elizabeth Kelley
Acrylic on raw canvas, $1,600
With the artist in profile, Elizabeth Kelley, so good to see and chat with another fabulous artist from our long-time pre-Covid fabulous figure painting group. Brad is an early morning ocean swimmer, so his photo-art with surfers was so Brad.
Attack
Brad Maushart
Digital photograph
Patron's Prize: "Manipulated image with a beautiful painterly treatment. Love the use of the strong diagonal composition to tell the story and invite us into the image, A bold and striking image of people and nature captured on a great Maine day which has produced a very subtle interplay of muted color and bold shapes."
Another fabulous artist from our painting group, who'd I'd visited in his gallery the other day. We all miss our drawing group.
Last Year's Model
Jenny Brillhart
Oil, $2,100
Whoa, big surprise to see my Blue Hill artist friend Jenny's art here with not too many artists from far away. I'd stayed in Jenny's Stonington cottage the previous week on a watercolor painting trip and had seen her art in Rockland, Maine on my drive back south, after visiting with her brother and his family and her children's book author Mom.
April Fools Day
Russell Whitten
Watercolor, $1,200
Russell was present with his smile, as well as Annie's smile too. Annie and her husband were perhaps the handsomest pair there.
Cluster
Anne Burnett Hidell
Acrylic, $3,200
Also at the show, a permanent installation:
Yacht Club Window View at Low Tide
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