Tools of the Trade

September 25 - October 9, 2020

 Jean Kigel’s final bi-weekly virtual theme show for the season is called Tools of the Trade.  If you are drawn to old stuff, you’ll appreciate this series of keepsakes.

Kigel has amassed personal artifacts for these paintings.  Appropriately, this collection starts with her favorite tools for Asian brush painting. 

       

Then, in tribute to her mother, it includes early home kitchen tools like a Mixmaster, an ice crusher, and a baked bean

 

           

       

               

   

Other household tools, many of which she has used herself, are  a candlestick telephone, a sad iron, and clamp-on roller skates. 

       

       

 

In tribute to her machinist/ woodworking father, she created a series of bit braces, calipers, and an eggbeater hand drill.

       

       

Last, and not least, are tools for the land and sea, like wooden blueberry baskets and decaying fish piers. 

     

                 

Visitors are welcomed to view these paintings on line at www.jeankigel.com and in person, by appointment, at 1396 Back Cove Road in Waldoboro.  For more information, contact jean@jeankigel.com   or call 832-5152.