Thursday, December 17, 2009
Annual Holiday Sale continued
We will be continuing our annual holiday sale until Christmas day, December 25th. We will be open this Friday, December 17th until 7pm. There are still many handmade, locally created, wonderful, original, art creations for your holiday gift giving! Additionally, we have gift certificates available to be used toward workshops, private lessons, and art purchases. Give the gift of art this year! It is truly a one-of-a-kind experience!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Local Art Students Come to Cerulean for Artist Talk
Artist Christine J. Higgins spoke with local high school art club about her exhibition "From the Studio: Paper & Prints"last week at Cerulean. Students were encouraged to take a closer look at the works and at the actual papermaking process itself. Students also took a tour of Cerulean...and enjoyed our view of the river!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Encaustic Workshop and Drawing Class to start soon!
Come and join us this Saturday for Intro to Encaustic Painting which includes all materials - still 3 spaces left! OR on Monday evenings start a Beginning to Drawing Class for $65. which includes all materials!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
October 2009 Exhibit, Works of Christine Higgins
Cerulean Fine Art Gallery at 202 Water Street in Hallowell announces a solo exhibit entitled “From the Studio: Paper and Print”, featuring the works of Readfield artist, Christine Higgins. An artist’s reception will take place Friday, October 9th from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm The show runs through November 7th. The reception is free and open to the public. For more information call 626-9009 or visit www.ceruleanart.com.
Christine Higgins, a former Cony High School Art Teacher, has extensive training and passion for paper-making and paper. “She considers the surface and fibers of the paper to be equally significant as her imagery.”, states Janna Civittolo, proprietor and artist. Her work references nature and her connection with it. Higgins speaks that “this exhibit continues my interest in the color, texture, and light of the natural environment...Each paper comes from the original fibers of mulberry, abaca or cotton which are then soaked, beaten, pigmented, and drained onto screens.”
Cerulean is delighted to bring to central Maine the opportunity to see a local papermaker's work. Proprietor and artist, Hélène Farrar says, “Christine's print and paperworks are delicate and organic. We are very happy to share them as there is a great need in Maine to see and learn this process which is part of our local heritage.”
Monday, September 21, 2009
Check out our resent write-up by the Village Soup
http://capital.villagesoup.com/ae/story/surreal-gathering-of-materials-at-cerulean/200797
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"A Gathering of Materials"
Opening Artist Reception will be Friday, September 11th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Cerulean. This exhibit will feature the works of Hallowell (and Roslindale, MA) sculptor Ellen Gibson. The show runs through October 2. Additionally, Gibson will be giving an artist talk on Saturday, September 26th from 3:00 to 4:00 pm. All events are free to the public. Please come an enjoy great art by local artist, and good snacks!
Gibson's work is comprised of her personal collections of found objects and her manipulations and taming of metal and wood. She states that “materials tell a narrative through their feel, weight, patina, history or former use.” Her solo exhibition at Cerulean focuses on two concepts: balance and containment. Gibson will display a series of “pocket books” to which she references, “the junk that we carry around with us for whatever reason.” Additionally, she will be exhibiting a series of works which she states that “deal with balance between weights, decisions, scale or visual assumptions. This being in reference to the contradictions and choices that confront our daily lives.”
Friday, August 28, 2009
Hubcap Heaven is Here next Friday, September 4th
Come and join us next Friday, September 4 from 5-8 PM for Hubcap Inspired Refreshments, Live Music, and the Cerulean Collective for a special exhibition featuring HUB CAPS!Here's some words from our fearless Hubcap Leader, Barbara Loken
For the past four summers, while driving back and forth to a boys camp
that I work at in the summer in Wayne, I daily drove past a small white
house on Highway 133 surrounded by piles of hubcaps. When the camp
needed decorations for a coffee house evening, I suggested hubcaps and
in no time I was introducing myself to Margaret Hawes who runs A and M
Wheel Covers with her husband Arthur. Margaret kindly showed me a pile
of slightly dinged wheel covers,( the correct name for what is commonly
called HUB CAPS) and I was awestruck by the hundreds of ways a circle
can be designed to suggest speed, wealth, economy, practicality, or
beauty. My first forty hubcaps were scrubbed by the boys with the Dawn
detergent that Margaret suggested , enhanced when necessary with spray
paint, and proved to be spectacular on the theater buildings walls. One
small lad immediately saw a connection and quipped, “ Coffee and
Cars, they both keep you running all day long.” which became the
theme of the coffee house.
This spring Bill Duffy and I visited Margaret who again helped us pick
out another batch from the scrap cap pile for the Cerulean artists. A
Hub Cap has a history and evokes nostalgia for the cars that we have
owned or loved or coveted or is just cool to look at and enjoy. Each
artist was challenged to transform a Hub Cap or two into a work of art.
We hope you enjoy the show in present time and are also reminded
fondly of a car that carries special memories. Anyone ever own a ’57
Chevy boat-car with fins?
No one has taken me up on the idea of a Hub Cap rhythm band, maybe
next year.
-Barb Loken
For the past four summers, while driving back and forth to a boys camp
that I work at in the summer in Wayne, I daily drove past a small white
house on Highway 133 surrounded by piles of hubcaps. When the camp
needed decorations for a coffee house evening, I suggested hubcaps and
in no time I was introducing myself to Margaret Hawes who runs A and M
Wheel Covers with her husband Arthur. Margaret kindly showed me a pile
of slightly dinged wheel covers,( the correct name for what is commonly
called HUB CAPS) and I was awestruck by the hundreds of ways a circle
can be designed to suggest speed, wealth, economy, practicality, or
beauty. My first forty hubcaps were scrubbed by the boys with the Dawn
detergent that Margaret suggested , enhanced when necessary with spray
paint, and proved to be spectacular on the theater buildings walls. One
small lad immediately saw a connection and quipped, “ Coffee and
Cars, they both keep you running all day long.” which became the
theme of the coffee house.
This spring Bill Duffy and I visited Margaret who again helped us pick
out another batch from the scrap cap pile for the Cerulean artists. A
Hub Cap has a history and evokes nostalgia for the cars that we have
owned or loved or coveted or is just cool to look at and enjoy. Each
artist was challenged to transform a Hub Cap or two into a work of art.
We hope you enjoy the show in present time and are also reminded
fondly of a car that carries special memories. Anyone ever own a ’57
Chevy boat-car with fins?
No one has taken me up on the idea of a Hub Cap rhythm band, maybe
next year.
-Barb Loken
WE'll BE OPEN MORE FOR THIS EXHIBITION:
Friday, September 4 11-8 PM Reception 5-8
Saturday, September 5 11-8
Sunday, September 6 10-2
Monday, Labor Day CLOSED
Tuesday, September 8 11-5
Image Compliments of our Photographer Bill Duffy
Thursday, July 30, 2009
"Harboring the Significant" Opens NEXT SATURDAY!
Please join artists Cynthia Ahlstrin and Hélène Farrar for their exhibition "Harboring the Significant" next Saturday August 8th from 4-7 PM. Heading out of town for the weekend? Please join us for a preview party from 5-7 on Friday, August 7th!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Next Friday the 10th Marks the Opening of "Settling"
Voted Best Vehicle To Match Our Decor
The Art Van of Very Special Arts of Maine made a quick stop to Cerulean last week, with a surprise visit from old studio mate of Hélène's Allison Baird (seen waving here!) FMI www.artvanprogram.org
Friday, June 19, 2009
Portrait Painting & Encaustics Workshop Offered By Cerulean Proprietor and Artist
Introduction To Encaustic Painting
Sunday, june 28 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. $90. includes all material
Instructor: Hélène Farrar, Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
In this workshop you will learn how to layer, fuse, and “make marks with encaustics. Using this melted, pigmented beeswax, you will also learn how to transfer images, add collage, and incorporate sculptural elements. Class time will be divided between demonstrations, individual work time, and discussion. This would also be suitable as a refesher course or for studio time. Encaustic Medium and Starter Kits for sale at workshop and open studio events.
Portrait Painting At Your Speed
Tuesday evenings starting June 23 6 - 8 PM
Instructor: Hélène Farrar
Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
$85./ 6 weeks
Divided between working from the model and personal photographs, students will develop new ways of seeing and rendering the portrait in color as a way to reveal physical characteristics, as well as the spirit, and emotional / psychological depth of that individual. Students will also be given specific instruction to color mixing, rendering light source, and technique specific to their chosen medium. This class is appropriate for students with drawing experience. Painting media may include watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pastels. Materials list supplied beforehand and conversation encouraged before the start of the class on individual direction.
TO REGISTER:
Call Cerulean Fine Art Gallery at 626-9009 or email info@ceruleanart.com
Or stop by! We are located at 202 Water Street Hallowell (Directly across from Slates)
More About the Instructor:
Hélène Farrar creates traditional and non-traditional oil paintings, encaustic and mixed media paintings, artist’s books, poetry, short stories, ceramic sculpture, drawings, prints, and digital work. She writes, "My painting process is centered on the act of play. Combining both intentional and intuitive processes, I create works that are bold in composition and expressive in markmaking and color. I am interested in surfaces that that speak of rigorous activity through variations in manipulated, and layered textures. Through this practice, I allow the images to “come through” while locating personal meaning in this meditative act. " Hélène has a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Maine. She has had extensive teaching of the visual arts from formal classrooms to community-based art experiences. She has had previous studios in Portland with Running With Scissors and in Gardiner with Artdogs. Hélène is currently a working, professional artist who is co-owner of Cerulean Fine Art Gallery and Artist Studios of Hallowell, Maine. She is an adjunct professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta where she teaches drawing and design. Hélène is also on the faculty at Thomas College where she teaches Graphic Design courses. The Three Graces Gallery of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Cerulean Fine Art Gallery of Hallowell currently represent her work. She is also an active member of New England Wax and was recently juried into a prestigious show for wax artists this summer at the Duxbury Art Museum in Massachussetts. She exhibits extensively in New England and beyond.
Sunday, june 28 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. $90. includes all material
Instructor: Hélène Farrar, Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
In this workshop you will learn how to layer, fuse, and “make marks with encaustics. Using this melted, pigmented beeswax, you will also learn how to transfer images, add collage, and incorporate sculptural elements. Class time will be divided between demonstrations, individual work time, and discussion. This would also be suitable as a refesher course or for studio time. Encaustic Medium and Starter Kits for sale at workshop and open studio events.
Portrait Painting At Your Speed
Tuesday evenings starting June 23 6 - 8 PM
Instructor: Hélène Farrar
Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
$85./ 6 weeks
Divided between working from the model and personal photographs, students will develop new ways of seeing and rendering the portrait in color as a way to reveal physical characteristics, as well as the spirit, and emotional / psychological depth of that individual. Students will also be given specific instruction to color mixing, rendering light source, and technique specific to their chosen medium. This class is appropriate for students with drawing experience. Painting media may include watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pastels. Materials list supplied beforehand and conversation encouraged before the start of the class on individual direction.
TO REGISTER:
Call Cerulean Fine Art Gallery at 626-9009 or email info@ceruleanart.com
Or stop by! We are located at 202 Water Street Hallowell (Directly across from Slates)
More About the Instructor:
Hélène Farrar creates traditional and non-traditional oil paintings, encaustic and mixed media paintings, artist’s books, poetry, short stories, ceramic sculpture, drawings, prints, and digital work. She writes, "My painting process is centered on the act of play. Combining both intentional and intuitive processes, I create works that are bold in composition and expressive in markmaking and color. I am interested in surfaces that that speak of rigorous activity through variations in manipulated, and layered textures. Through this practice, I allow the images to “come through” while locating personal meaning in this meditative act. " Hélène has a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Maine. She has had extensive teaching of the visual arts from formal classrooms to community-based art experiences. She has had previous studios in Portland with Running With Scissors and in Gardiner with Artdogs. Hélène is currently a working, professional artist who is co-owner of Cerulean Fine Art Gallery and Artist Studios of Hallowell, Maine. She is an adjunct professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta where she teaches drawing and design. Hélène is also on the faculty at Thomas College where she teaches Graphic Design courses. The Three Graces Gallery of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Cerulean Fine Art Gallery of Hallowell currently represent her work. She is also an active member of New England Wax and was recently juried into a prestigious show for wax artists this summer at the Duxbury Art Museum in Massachussetts. She exhibits extensively in New England and beyond.
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