Local 188 presents
PERMUTATIONS: examinations of color and shape
works by Jeanne O’Toole Hayman
If you are interested in purchasing a piece, please speak with the staff of Local 188.
Price list below.
5×5″ $105
6×6″ $120
8×8″ $145
12×12″ $245
10×22″ $370
20×20″ $515
30×22″ $650
Water/Form/Stone, a new solo show, opens First Friday (September 4th) at Portland’s
popular 3Fish Gallery.
‘Water/Form/Stone’ represents an evolution from the literal depiction of reality toward the abstract, that looks more deeply into the essence of things — including stone, water, architecture and the human figure.
My imagery is largely drawn from the natural world. In all instances, I layer my paint in an effort to capture the eternal birth, aggregation and decay of natural and human elements over time. What we see has existed forever but is always changing, always evolving. I try to capture the ongoing process of birth, growth, decay, and rebirth. Whether the idea is the wearing away of rocky coasts by the endless movement of the sea or the ancient fertility figures that symbolize the birth and evolution of mankind, the idea remains constant.
I find the way to the idea through the process of painting itself. The energy of brush strokes and palette knife, inform and reform the marks.
Hope you can join us at the opening reception!
Reception: Friday, Sept 4th, from 5pm – 8pm
Exhibit Dates: Sept 4th – 26th, 2015
3 Fish Gallery
377 Cumberland Ave, Portland, ME
Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1pm – 4pm
Or by appointment – (207) 773-4773, ronspinella@maine.rr.com
Oceans Series – Washington DC
Opening reception: May 18th, 6-8pm Exhibit: May 18th – June 26th
Living on an island off the coast of Maine has exposed me to huge variations in the change of seasons and light and color of the natural world. When I first moved to Maine 12 years ago from the hectic high-speed world of the New York area I slowed down to the more natural ebb and flow of seasonal life on an island. I became enamored of the rock formations, the evidence of geological interruptions millions of years ago. There is a formation on the island in one era of volcanic upheaval that is subsequently split, tens of thousands of years later by a different eruption, an unusual anomaly. Right there on the shoreline, a mile from my house, you can see the intersection of eons of time and energy.
My first paintings in this new landscape were large heavily impasto dramatic depictions of the rocks themselves. Some paintings included the touch of the human hand; islanders and summer visitors had sculpted rocks into cairns of varying shapes and sizes, some clearly representational forms. I believe the human need to leave a mark of one’s passing, to connect with the landscape is innate in many of us. I painted these and many other views along the coast.
Recently I have moved from the fascination with rock forms to the ever-changing formation of the ocean, which is right outside my door. I travel daily to my studio, ferrying across the Casco Bay in high winds and buffeting waves and in flat calm water.
The “Oceans Series” draws attention to the fragility and variety of the water that covers 2/3rd of our plane and to the water in all its incredible variety and strength. Painting on large canvases with large brushes and oil sticks with sweeping gestural marks is my greatest pleasure.
My work has evolved from strictly representational imagery to looser more abstracted compositions, as I have inhaled and absorbed the natural world around me and reimagined it in paint and other media. The journey of my work has replicated my personal journey from the calm, conservative 1960 English countryside, through the explosion of 70’s Beatles London and my immigration to the States, to a larger more varied playing field here in America. I was able to expand my work enormously. Here in Portland I joined Peregrine Press, a group of talented artist printmakers, who have collaborated on two portfolios. These portfolios are now in the collections of the New York Public Library, The Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, The Portland Museum of Art, Colby College Art Museum, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the University of New England Museum of Art and the Southern Graphics Council International.
Jeanne O’Toole Hayman
May, 2013