Welcome to this web gallery of my original artworks. I paint in watercolor, oil, and soft pastel. Each medium has its own appeal. The surprises inherent in wet-in-wet watercolor painting are exciting. With oils, mixing and then juxtaposing hues of different values and temperature is engaging and rhythmic.
I particularly love the vibrancy and immediacy of soft pastel. As a medium of almost pure pigment, pastel gives paintings a richness of color and stroke that is both characteristic and striking. By their shape and concentration of pigment, pastel sticks facilitate a flexible combination of drawing and painting techniques.
Many of my paintings reflect my love of the Maine coast, where sea, sky, and land meet in myriad and compelling ways. I am fascinated by shifts of weather and season, bringing changes in light, shadow, and mood to each scene before me. My show "Anticipations" at Tidemark Gallery this April includes work developed from anticipation of change, growth, surprise and even loss.
Extended stays with painting friends each year in September on Monhegan are invigorating, challenging and satisfying. I look forward to returning again this fall. "Monhegan Perspectives II" will present the 2008 artwork of the Monhegan group at the Damariscotta River Grill this June.
In 2008 and continuing this year, I am also exploring the visual beauty of the Kennebec Estuary and will have a solo show of this work in Bath this summer. I am grateful to the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust for their stewardship of this landscape and their encouragement of my painting journeys.
I invite your comments on my paintings and this site. The paintings in Gallery One and Gallery Two are selected images representative of my work. Please feel free to contact me about a specific painting. You may also order limited edition prints through the "Prints and Shows" page. Thank you for visiting!
Current and Upcoming
Autumn's Edge
SOLO SHOW Along the Kennebec Estuary 6/8 to 9/2 Mae's Cafe Public Reception Thursday 6/11, 5 to 7 pm, Bath, Maine
The painting above is one of 40 original works in soft pastel, oil and watercolor that will be on exhibit and for sale. Over the past year I have travelled and painted beautiful vistas along the Kennebec Estuary. Last spring I invited the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust to collaborate on the exhibit by sharing educational information about the region and the preserves it stewards.The Trust is dedicated to conservation of the natural, historic, scenic, cultural and agricultural resources of the Kennebec Estuary. I hope you will stop in to see the show if you live in Maine or are visiting the area, as well as explore the Estuary area yourself.
PRINTS
Now Available on Prints and Shows page
Limited edition fine art print of Sea Gold on Lobster Cove
Limited edition fine art print of Sasanoa River Buoy benefiting the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
TEACHING
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Upcoming Classes At the Woodturning School Studio in Damariscotta, Maine
9/29 – 10/20/09 Tuesday mornings 9 a.m. to 12 noon 4 weeks Soft Pastel from the Ground Up – Creating Surfaces and Mixing Media
Students will prepare toned and textured panels and explore a variety of underpainting techniques to deepen and enhance painting with soft pastels.There will be ample time for painting each session.Watercolor, gouache, acrylic and oil washes may be used to create a harmonizing or complementary foundation for pastel work.Demonstration and instruction will address surface selection, ground preparation, underpainting and pastel application.Previous experience with soft pastel painting is necessary. Maximum: seven students.Materials fee $8. Course $132. 9/29 – 11/17/09 Tuesday afternoons 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 8 weeks First Strokes – Introductory to Intermediate Soft Pastel Painting
Pastel is an inviting, sensual, and forgiving medium incorporating aspects of drawing and painting.Come explore the use of soft pastel on a variety of surfaces and learn techniques unique to the medium for expressing value, hue, form, temperature and perspective.The weekly format includes demonstration, exercises, tailored individual guidance, lengthy painting time, critique and homework challenges.Repeat students are welcome. Maximum: seven students.Course: $264.
10/27 – 12/15/09 Tuesday mornings 9 a.m. to 12 noon 8 weeks The Practice of Soft Pastel Painting
This eight week class is for dedicated painters with moderate or greater experience with soft pastels who are working toward a personal practice of committed painting and artistic challenge.During extensive painting in class, each person will be individually mentored at his or her level of development.The emphasis will be on creating compelling paintings through strong composition, knowledge of color relationships, interpretation of light and increased mastery of techniques unique to the medium.Every class will conclude with a structured group critique. Maximum: seven students. Course $264.
FMI/To register:through contact box below or call 207 644 183 Materials list:Upon registration Early registration is appreciated.
Workshops 2 spaces remain
Soft Pastel Painting Farnsworth Museum, Gamble Education Center June 19 - 20, 2009, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
This workshop is for those with moderate or more experience using soft pastels.The focus will be on using pastel in a painterly manner and developing more luminous work by capitalizing on pastel’s crystalline nature, optical blending and myriad variation in hue and value.The workshop will include a combination of studio exercises, demonstration, lengthy painting time, tailored individual guidance and structured supportive critique.Participants may create landscape, waterscape or still-life paintings. Limited to 8 participants.
Cost: $140 Museum members, $170 non-members Registration: Please call 207-596-0949 Questions: Contact Sally through box below
2009 SHOWS
June 7 - September 6 Along the Kennebec Estuary In collaboration with the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust solo exhibit, Mae's Cafe & Bakery, Bath, Maine
June 22 - August 8 Monhegan Perspectives II six person show, Damariscotta River Grill, Maine
September 26 - November 13 Solo exhibit Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine
Several of many recent paintings. . .
Cove Light
Moon Reach SOLD
Marsh by the Sea SOLD
All images are coprighted by Sally Loughridge. Image resolution is set for web use and does not reflect the true resolution of the artwork. Reproduction rights are reserved by the artist. It is illegal to copy or reproduce images on this site.
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