Ponds and Poplars, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
Speckle Clouds, Oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Speckled Sky, Light Path, Oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches
Red Room, Oil pastel, 13 x 19 inches
Louise Bourne writes, “This painting, Red Room, was done in the wonderful large, classic Maine farmhouse belonging to the painter, John Heliker, on Great Cranberry Island, where there used to be an Artists Residency. Heliker and his partner, Bob LaHotan, put up wall paper purposefully to give the old farmhouse a Vuillard feel. It was just totally designed for painting.
I was standing in the dining room, looking into the library. If I were to turn around, I’d see the ornate parlor stove photographed by Walker Evans when he came to visit Heliker and Lahotan.”
Louise Bourne
About the Guanajuato, Mexico Paintings:
This group of paintings is about what always fascinates me: how color changes as it moves through space, in specific light, and how these shifts create structure in a painting. The location is new: a mountain town in Central Mexico, where I lived for four weeks mid winter.
Light and Shadow on stone, stucco and fountains presented color intricacies that made me itch to paint. The visual information gathered kept my practice going well after my return home. I hope this work goes beyond travel painting, so that the paintings represent themselves, and awaken some sensations in the viewer.
Bio:
Louise Bourne is an award winning artist, whose paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries, including Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; Gallery 61 in New York City; Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta; the Greenhut Gallery in Portland, Maine; Alpers Fine Art in Andover, Massachusetts; Smith Killian Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina; the Aitken Bicentennial in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine. In addition, her work is in public and corporate collections, including those of the Maine Medical Center in Portland; Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston; Bay Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Department of Public Safety in Houlton, Maine.