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. All pieces use Rembrandt oil colors on Ampersand Museum panels; frames are maple with water-based lacquer finish by Metropolitan Frames.
.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. All pieces use Rembrandt oil colors on Ampersand Museum panels; frames are maple with water-based lacquer finish by Metropolitan Frames.
"Trout with Dahlias" oil on panel 36" x 24" sold
"Bouncing Bet with Bees" oil on panel 30" x 30"
"Barred Owl with Beets and Pulmonaria "Mrs. Moon" On The Longest Day" oil on panel 36" x 24" sold
"Lilies and Campanula in Murano Glass Vase with Butterflies" oil on panel 24" x 18"
"Pheasant in the Corn with Apples" oil on panel 24" x 26"
"Cosmos and Zinnias in Majolica Jardiniere with Turtles on Eagle Lake" oil on panel 30" x 30" sold
click here for Amy's narrative about Cosmos and Zinnias with Turtles
"Catbird with Cosmos" oil on panel 36" x 24"
"Strawberries and Grapes in Morning Light" 36 x 24, oil on panel
click here for Amy's narrative about Strawberries and Grapes
"Pine Marten with Birches" oil on panel 30" x 30" sold
"Azaleas with Chipmunks" oil on panel 36" x 24"
"Heron with Marigolds and Mussels" oil on panel 24" x 18" sold
"Zinnias with Salamanders" oil on panel 24" x 18"
"The Fox and The Grapes" 30 x 30 inches, oil on panel sold
"Dandelions with Hishinohana Print of Water Caltrops" oil on panel 24" x 18" sold
"Southwest Harbor Town Dock" oil on panel 18" x 24" $2,800 sold
Amy Pollien is being featured in the June issue of "Maine Homes by Down East." It will be on newsstands May 21.