Amy Pollien and Don Best: Peaceful Kingdom
August 16-September 12, 2021
Amy Pollien studied printmaking and industrial design at the Philadelphia College of Art with Michael Lasuchin and William Daley. “Her drawings are subtle, but if you spend a little time with them, they begin to reveal their character. Some of the most striking pieces . . .portray houses, some abandoned, some seasonal, that are being swallowed up by the land and the trees around them.
.They’re a visual record of nature and neglect that is at once wistful and breathtakingly beautiful,” writes Kristen Andresen of the Bangor Daily News. Since 1978 she has exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Rutgers University, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, among others. Her work is included in The Art of Maine Winter by Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick.
The three colors in her palette are permanent yellow light, quinacridone rose, and phthalo blue red, plus ivory black and titanium white. The images are first drawn with a unique charcoal "twig" imported from Italy and then painted with various mixtures of her three-palette colors.
.They’re a visual record of nature and neglect that is at once wistful and breathtakingly beautiful,” writes Kristen Andresen of the Bangor Daily News. Since 1978 she has exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Rutgers University, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, among others. Her work is included in The Art of Maine Winter by Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick.
The three colors in her palette are permanent yellow light, quinacridone rose, and phthalo blue red, plus ivory black and titanium white. The images are first drawn with a unique charcoal "twig" imported from Italy and then painted with various mixtures of her three-palette colors.
"Cosmos and Zinnias with Turtles on Eagle Lake" oil on panel 30" x 30" sold
click here for Amy's narrative about Cosmos and Zinnias with Turtles
"Strawberries and Grapes in Morning Light" 36 x 24, oil on panel
click here for Amy's narrative about Strawberries and Grapes
"Pheasant in the Corn with Apples" oil on panel 24" x 26"
"Bouncing Bet with Bees" oil on panel 30" x 30"
"Trout with Dahlias" oil on panel 36" x 24"
"Pine Martin with Birches" oil on panel 30" x 30" sold
"Catbird with Cosmos" oil on panel 36" x 24"
"The Fox and The Grapes" 30 x 30 inches, oil on panel sold
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"Grapes, Ducks, and Fish" oil on panel 24 x 36 inches sold
"Azaleas with Chipmunks" oil on panel 36" x 24"
"Rooster with Dahlias" oil on panel 36" x 24" sold
"Eli Creek, Isle Au Haut" oil on panel 24 x 18 sold
"Southwest Harbor" oil on panel 18 x 24
Three Mason Jars with Zinnias on Coromandel Coast Trade Cloth oil on panel 24 x 36 sold
"Bright Day in July, Frenchboro" oil on panel 24 x 36 sold
"Tropical Fruit with Alexander Marsh Botanical" oil on paper 36" x 24" sold
"Hunter's Beach Acadia" oil on panel 12 x 24 sold
"Stonington Caress" oil on panel 18 x 36 inches-sold
Amy Pollien is being featured in the June issue of "Maine Homes by Down East." It will be on newsstands May 21.