Community Calendar

"then again, once more," a show of Vincente Spadafora’s contemporary color photography in handcrafted frames, will will be on exhibit at the Rockport Public Library June 3-28. Works will be shown in both the upper and lower levels of the library.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vincente Spadafora (vin-cent spa-da-for-a) is a visual artist who transcribes scenes of impermanence through photography. In chance encounters, the ephemeral quality of nature contrasts our built landscapes creating a new dialog and sense of comfort. Color, ritual and repeating characters (i.e. seagulls and traffic cones) make important appearances in the work. Spadafora lives on a small farm in Mid Coast Maine and travels throughout the state searching for images.

Spadafora’s work has been shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Old 77 Hotel, the Bakery Photo Collective, Sidle House Gallery, Katzman Contemporary, the Hubbell Brach Library and various online publications including Noice Mag, Ambient Nights, and Broad Magazine.

Library Hours: M, Tu, Th, F, Sa 9:30 - 5:30, W 11:00 - 8:00, closed Sundays

Maine master printmaker Sherrie York returns to the Gilley on Wednesday, June 25, to teach a full-day workshop using multiple colors. The class is suitable for advanced beginners to intermediate printmakers and runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring a lunch. Class size is limited, and registration is required.

Materials will be provided – just bring an idea for a nature image you'd like to turn into a woodblock-style print. Participants must be at least 10 years old. The cost is $69 per person for non-members, and $56 for Museum members.

This special workshop follows Sherrie’s People-Nature-Art presentation on Tuesday, June 24, a free offering in which she talks about her artistic process and her work’s connection to nature.

Richard Boyd Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition of exquisitely detailed drybrush watercolor paintings by nationally renowned, award-winning watercolorists Randy Eckard and Richard H. Eyster. The exhibit demonstrates the artistic mastery of both men and showcases the stunning beauty of drybrush watercolor painting a classical technique in which water-soluble pigments are used directly with or mixed with a minimum of water to create paintings with great precision and beauty.

Drybrush watercolor painting is noted for its use of translucent pigments. Oil paints offer outstanding detail but due to their opaque nature reveal only the final layer of paint. Conventional watercolors hide nothing, so each luminous layer remains visible through the others, offering luminosity but limited detail and crisp realism.

While difficult to master, drybrush watercolor painting offers the best of both worlds. Its rich pigmentation allows for extraordinary detail and luminosity while its natural water solubility creates glowing, flowing layers of translucent color.

If you love watercolor paintings don’t miss this amazing exhibition showcasing two masters of the medium opening June 1st at 11:00 a.m.

This stunning exhibition of exquisitely rendered watercolor paintings is available for public viewing free of charge from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily through June 28th, 2025. For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .

For weekly news and updates like the gallery on Facebook at Https://www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and follow on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 . To receive the galleries monthly newsletter via email please send your email address to info@richardboydartgallery.com . Thank you.

Image of 'Motion of Light' a 15" x 21" original dry-brush watercolor painting by Randy Eckard.

"then again, once more," a show of Vincente Spadafora’s contemporary color photography in handcrafted frames, will will be on exhibit at the Rockport Public Library June 3-28. Works will be shown in both the upper and lower levels of the library.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vincente Spadafora (vin-cent spa-da-for-a) is a visual artist who transcribes scenes of impermanence through photography. In chance encounters, the ephemeral quality of nature contrasts our built landscapes creating a new dialog and sense of comfort. Color, ritual and repeating characters (i.e. seagulls and traffic cones) make important appearances in the work. Spadafora lives on a small farm in Mid Coast Maine and travels throughout the state searching for images.

Spadafora’s work has been shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Old 77 Hotel, the Bakery Photo Collective, Sidle House Gallery, Katzman Contemporary, the Hubbell Brach Library and various online publications including Noice Mag, Ambient Nights, and Broad Magazine.

Library Hours: M, Tu, Th, F, Sa 9:30 - 5:30, W 11:00 - 8:00, closed Sundays

Richard Boyd Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition of exquisitely detailed drybrush watercolor paintings by nationally renowned, award-winning watercolorists Randy Eckard and Richard H. Eyster. The exhibit demonstrates the artistic mastery of both men and showcases the stunning beauty of drybrush watercolor painting a classical technique in which water-soluble pigments are used directly with or mixed with a minimum of water to create paintings with great precision and beauty.

Drybrush watercolor painting is noted for its use of translucent pigments. Oil paints offer outstanding detail but due to their opaque nature reveal only the final layer of paint. Conventional watercolors hide nothing, so each luminous layer remains visible through the others, offering luminosity but limited detail and crisp realism.

While difficult to master, drybrush watercolor painting offers the best of both worlds. Its rich pigmentation allows for extraordinary detail and luminosity while its natural water solubility creates glowing, flowing layers of translucent color.

If you love watercolor paintings don’t miss this amazing exhibition showcasing two masters of the medium opening June 1st at 11:00 a.m.

This stunning exhibition of exquisitely rendered watercolor paintings is available for public viewing free of charge from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily through June 28th, 2025. For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .

For weekly news and updates like the gallery on Facebook at Https://www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and follow on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 . To receive the galleries monthly newsletter via email please send your email address to info@richardboydartgallery.com . Thank you.

Image of 'Motion of Light' a 15" x 21" original dry-brush watercolor painting by Randy Eckard.

"then again, once more," a show of Vincente Spadafora’s contemporary color photography in handcrafted frames, will will be on exhibit at the Rockport Public Library June 3-28. Works will be shown in both the upper and lower levels of the library.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vincente Spadafora (vin-cent spa-da-for-a) is a visual artist who transcribes scenes of impermanence through photography. In chance encounters, the ephemeral quality of nature contrasts our built landscapes creating a new dialog and sense of comfort. Color, ritual and repeating characters (i.e. seagulls and traffic cones) make important appearances in the work. Spadafora lives on a small farm in Mid Coast Maine and travels throughout the state searching for images.

Spadafora’s work has been shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Old 77 Hotel, the Bakery Photo Collective, Sidle House Gallery, Katzman Contemporary, the Hubbell Brach Library and various online publications including Noice Mag, Ambient Nights, and Broad Magazine.

Library Hours: M, Tu, Th, F, Sa 9:30 - 5:30, W 11:00 - 8:00, closed Sundays

Richard Boyd Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition of exquisitely detailed drybrush watercolor paintings by nationally renowned, award-winning watercolorists Randy Eckard and Richard H. Eyster. The exhibit demonstrates the artistic mastery of both men and showcases the stunning beauty of drybrush watercolor painting a classical technique in which water-soluble pigments are used directly with or mixed with a minimum of water to create paintings with great precision and beauty.

Drybrush watercolor painting is noted for its use of translucent pigments. Oil paints offer outstanding detail but due to their opaque nature reveal only the final layer of paint. Conventional watercolors hide nothing, so each luminous layer remains visible through the others, offering luminosity but limited detail and crisp realism.

While difficult to master, drybrush watercolor painting offers the best of both worlds. Its rich pigmentation allows for extraordinary detail and luminosity while its natural water solubility creates glowing, flowing layers of translucent color.

If you love watercolor paintings don’t miss this amazing exhibition showcasing two masters of the medium opening June 1st at 11:00 a.m.

This stunning exhibition of exquisitely rendered watercolor paintings is available for public viewing free of charge from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily through June 28th, 2025. For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .

For weekly news and updates like the gallery on Facebook at Https://www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and follow on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 . To receive the galleries monthly newsletter via email please send your email address to info@richardboydartgallery.com . Thank you.

Image of 'Motion of Light' a 15" x 21" original dry-brush watercolor painting by Randy Eckard.

"then again, once more," a show of Vincente Spadafora’s contemporary color photography in handcrafted frames, will will be on exhibit at the Rockport Public Library June 3-28. Works will be shown in both the upper and lower levels of the library.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vincente Spadafora (vin-cent spa-da-for-a) is a visual artist who transcribes scenes of impermanence through photography. In chance encounters, the ephemeral quality of nature contrasts our built landscapes creating a new dialog and sense of comfort. Color, ritual and repeating characters (i.e. seagulls and traffic cones) make important appearances in the work. Spadafora lives on a small farm in Mid Coast Maine and travels throughout the state searching for images.

Spadafora’s work has been shown at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Old 77 Hotel, the Bakery Photo Collective, Sidle House Gallery, Katzman Contemporary, the Hubbell Brach Library and various online publications including Noice Mag, Ambient Nights, and Broad Magazine.

Library Hours: M, Tu, Th, F, Sa 9:30 - 5:30, W 11:00 - 8:00, closed Sundays

Richard Boyd Art Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a two-person exhibition of exquisitely detailed drybrush watercolor paintings by nationally renowned, award-winning watercolorists Randy Eckard and Richard H. Eyster. The exhibit demonstrates the artistic mastery of both men and showcases the stunning beauty of drybrush watercolor painting a classical technique in which water-soluble pigments are used directly with or mixed with a minimum of water to create paintings with great precision and beauty.

Drybrush watercolor painting is noted for its use of translucent pigments. Oil paints offer outstanding detail but due to their opaque nature reveal only the final layer of paint. Conventional watercolors hide nothing, so each luminous layer remains visible through the others, offering luminosity but limited detail and crisp realism.

While difficult to master, drybrush watercolor painting offers the best of both worlds. Its rich pigmentation allows for extraordinary detail and luminosity while its natural water solubility creates glowing, flowing layers of translucent color.

If you love watercolor paintings don’t miss this amazing exhibition showcasing two masters of the medium opening June 1st at 11:00 a.m.

This stunning exhibition of exquisitely rendered watercolor paintings is available for public viewing free of charge from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily through June 28th, 2025. For more information about the exhibit contact the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .

For weekly news and updates like the gallery on Facebook at Https://www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and follow on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 . To receive the galleries monthly newsletter via email please send your email address to info@richardboydartgallery.com . Thank you.

Image of 'Motion of Light' a 15" x 21" original dry-brush watercolor painting by Randy Eckard.

Stop in Richard Boyd Art Gallery in July and relax while viewing a presentation of beautifully detailed paintings that made me pause to take in their beauty, intricate details or contemplate the underlying meaning they convey. Immerse yourself in a world of textures, colors, and details as you explore a range of contrasting styles from impressionism to realism, featuring a magnificent selection of original visual art created by artists from diverse backgrounds. The artists’ individual styles, choice of mediums and color palettes give them distinction in the visual arts community.

The exhibit is comprised of a stunning selection of paintings, each created with heartfelt emotions from the soul of the artist drawing viewers into a moment in time when an event, scene, or color inspired them to create. Whatever the inspiration, these paintings will remain relevant through the years.

The exhibit showcases works by highly regarded, award-winning artists among them Jane Herbert a distinguished fine and commercial artist known for her calming, beautifully detailed acrylic paintings; Deena S. Ball a nationally renowned art educator and instructor known for her use of watercolor on unconventional surfaces; Patricia Chandler a distinguished fine and commercial artist, art instructor, illustrator, and retired art educator well known for her knowledge and ability to create original art across all genres; Carrin Culotta recognized for her traditional style plein air and in studio oil paintings; Tim Eaton a nationally recognized commercial and fine artist known for his landscape paintings; and HM Saffer II an internationally renowned, award-winning performing and visual artist famed for his magnificently layered pointillist style landscape paintings.

The exhibit is open free of charge from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily from July 1st through July 29th, 2025. For more information the gallery by phone (207)-712-1097, email info@richardboydartgallery.com or visit the gallery’s website www.richardboydartgallery.com .

For exhibit updates follow the gallery on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardBoydArtGallery and on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/richardboydartgallery9327 .

Image of “Sentries” an 18” x 36” acrylic on canvas painting by Jane Herbert.