Roy Germon
2023 featured artist August 14-September 10
Reception Saturday, August 26, 4-6 pm
In my paintings, I am more likely to rely on the strength of a broad brushstroke over a finely drawn detail of the landscape. Invented color relationships often win out over a more exact palate found in nature. Though many of the locations in my paintings have real and emotional significance to me, ultimately my paintings are ideas of those places, transformed by my systems of organization and mark making. My manipulation of “place” is both intentional and intuitive and the most successful works comprise equal parts observation, imagination and discovery.
Roy Germon
"Across to Little Moose" acrylic on panel 36" x 48" $6,000
"Acadia Memory" acrylic on panel 12" x 9.5" $1,100 sold
"Emerald Surf" acrylic on panel 22" x 24" $3,100
"Low Tide Near Blueberry Hill" acrylic on panel 26" x 48" $5,200 sold
"Fog at Bass Harbor" acrylic on panel 18" x 18" $2,200
"Returning Tide" acrylic on panel 24" x 32" $3,800 sold
"Marsh Frost" acrylic on panel 14" x 14" $1,300
"Raven's View" acrylic on panel 20" x 20" $2,500
"Endurance II" acrylic on panel 32" x 30" $4,000
"Young Spruce" acrylic on panel 26" x 24" $3,200
"Spring Rain" acrylic on panel 20" x 18" $2,300
"Late Afternoon, Schoodic" acrylic on panel 36" x 48" $6,000 sold
"Wonderland Rocks" acrylic on panel 24" x 24" $3,100
"Trail Loop Winter, Schoodic" acrylic on panel 26" x 24" $3,200
Germon is one of the top-notch notables of the new Maine painting. His works are marked by a boldly flickered brush that generally holds tight to the surface and an appreciable sense of sophistication and visual intelligence. Using a chalky palette, Germon’s marks are less about the writhing of the bristles through the paint than about the form of the mark on the surface. In other words, Germon’s marks aren’t dollops, dabs or daubs. They are shapes.
Daniel Kany