Spring cleaning time-Headed to town to get this place up and running for the summer/fall.  I’ll be doing a lot of painting here, but it will be painting the house/ shop trim and woodwork/furniture.  Time for some updates inside and out.

The gardens are also on the list.  For the sake of all who drive by and all who sit at Chase’s it is high time to get rid of the dead plants and add some color and live plants to the exterior.  I look forward to doing this work,  it feels nurturing.  This place and the work to keep it up evoke many fond memories.  I am so lucky to have this work to do.   Another joy I look forward to is having a visit with some folks while I’m there, never enough time but will do the best I can.  If you’re on the Peninsula stop by and say hello!

THANK YOU everyone for helping to make the opening of the “Hometown Memories” show a great success.  I really enjoyed visiting with everyone and only wished that I had more time to talk.  Please contact me anytime to share your memories.  If you didn’t see the show it is open during the month of May from approx. 9:30am-4pm daily at Hammond Hall.

This piece didn’t make it into the “Hometown Memories” Show.  It is titled Packing Sardines.  As a matter of fact when looking at the photo I realize that this photograph is not a picture of the completed work, but it does show the bones of the story.  As many folks know, this depicts the closing of the Stinson Sardine Factory that was located in Prospect Harbor, Maine and closed in 2010.  It was the last surviving sardine factory in the United States when it closed.  This is one of a series that I am working on depicting the industry of Sardine fishing on the Peninsula.  I hope to include other mixed media works and paintings.  I have some very old photographs of men working to collect fish gathered into a weir.  They are scooping the fish from the nets into double ended dories.  I’m sure those fish ended up being packed at Stiinson’s.

I continue to look for vintage photos to use for inspiration as the Hometown Memories series continues.  If anyone has questions or has photocopies of photographs that I might use I would love to make arrangements with them to do that.  Some topics I plan to pursue and include:  all matters Sardines, Leo Roy’s garage, the fire house in Winter Harbor, the former Barber Shop in Winter Harbor, the former funeral parlor, Dr. Holt’s home and office, and many other people and places that I have yet to discover.

Good Morning!

This is an encaustic piece called Pie Anyone?  This lady is serving pie to her family and friends on Little Moose Island.  This mixed media piece was made using vintage photographs from  the collection of Coombs family photos.

Join us on Sunday, May 5, 2013 from 1-4pm at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor to see the works and talk about our memories of living in here.