JEAN KIGEL

20th ANNUAL EASTERN VIEWS

The Brick House Gallery

176 Winslow Mills Road, Waldoboro, ME

Watercolors, Asian Brush, and Oil

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

August 10, 11, 12, 2018

Reception

Friday, August 10, 5-7PM

Jean Kigel celebrates two decades of exhibiting paintings of Maine and the Far East the second weekend in August.  These annual exhibitions began in Tenants Harbor, transitioned  to Damariscotta, and finally to Waldoboro.  This year’s event showcases her newest paintings on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday – August 10th, 11th, and 12^th - from 10:00 – 5:00 each day.    On Friday, August 10^th   the public is invited to a reception from 5:00 – 7:00PM.  The Gallery is located at 176 Winslow Mills Road (Route 32).

Her signature images combine her twin passions for flowers and for water. Kigel painted Van Gogh Blues, a full-sheet watercolor of irises, in subtle shades of violet and green.   Other house plants and perennials in her floral series include waxy, velvety hoya blossoms, misty African violets, and a meandering steam water lilies. “The forms and creativity of nature give me comfort,” says Kigel.  “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” 

Illumination, a foggy scene from Back Cove, Waldoboro depicts her other passion - water. Kigel painted this oil in her new style, which she calls “geometric realism.”  Here angular shafts of morning light play around a moored sailboat, its departure watched by a  hunched heron.  Kigel’s other geometric realism paintings  include  seascapes,  landscapes and attic windows.  Viewers will recognize scenes from New Harbor, Owls Head, and Acadia National Park, as well as from the fields of Thorndike, and quaint homes from Mid-coast, Maine.

In addition, this year viewers will discover a series of small studio, still-life’s of vintage objects, including a ‘50’s electric fan, a hairdryer, and salt sellers.  With Asian brush and with oils Kigel, brings a sense of “exotica” to familiar things. 

An award-winning member of the Sumi-e Society of America and the Union of Maine Visual Artists, Kigel’s work can be seen in galleries in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts.  For more information, preview this exhibit at www.jeankigel.com or call 975-3262.