Jeffrey MacDonald

Jeffrey MacDonald

Jeff MacDonald relocated to Maine in 2007 after a thirty-plus year career in the music distribution business, aggregating small independent music labels nationwide to supply to specialty shops domestically and internationally. He was instrumental in exposing a wide variety of music styles unique to the United States, via a network of dedicated shops and sub distributors here and abroad. Jeff has always viewed music and art as kindred spirits and collected both for decades. Before he made Maine his home, Jeff was already taken with artists connected to the state's history: John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Leo Brooks, Louise Nevelson, the Wyeths and was eager to make the rounds of Maine galleries and museums:;they did not disappoint. Jeff continued to collect art from around the world, but his focus became Maine artists. Their work inspired him to try dabbling in art of his own, not limiting himself to looking and buying.
Without any formal training, Jeff has been honing his own passion for art over the past ten years. He experimented with a few years of mark making, mostly with watercolors, and developed a somewhat coherent style based simply on shapes he enjoys. Those shapes are a result of some very busy sketches he deconstructed until he found that movement and tension, complimented with colors that furthered the interaction. The infinite possibilities of organizing shapes and colors has always fascinated him and, in his words, "has become quite an addiction."