Amy Pollien
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.
"Goldfinch with Roses" oil on panel 24 x 18 inches
"Grapes, Ducks, and Fish" oil on panel 24 x 36 inches sold
Click above video clip to view details of "Grapes, Oil, and Fish"
"Zinnias with Salamanders and Hops"
oil on panel 24" x 18"
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"American Bullfrogs with Zinnias and Cosmos" oil on panel 36 x 24 inches
"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
"Bright Day in July, Frenchboro" oil on panel 24 x 36
Three Mason Jars with Zinnias on Coromandel Coast Trade Cloth oil on panel 24 x 36
"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.