Writer – Photographer – Visual Artist
“Boot Cove – Lubec (Winter)” (2023)
Mixed Media (Acrylic & Gouache)
12″ x 16″
One of the things that attracts me about where I live is the icy North Atlantic and the majestic cliffs of Maine’s Downeast coast. In this painting, I wanted to evoke the icy waters bashing the ancient rock which I attempted to do by using only a palette knife and building paint layers as they dried.
These are 420-million year old Brachiopods of the Silurian period found on a rocky outcropping at Reversing Falls – Pembroke, Maine.
The wondering flowers looked up to see
Who had offered the worm a home:
‘T was a clover-blossom, whose fluttering leaves
Seemed beckoning him to come;
It dwelt in a sunny little nook,
Where cool winds rustled by,
And murmuring bees and butterflies came,
On the flower’s breast to lie.
–– Louisa May Alcott
“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” – Proverbs 6:6
“The world laughs in flowers.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not claim to have acquired virtue unless you have suffered affliction, for without affliction virtue has not been tested.” – St. Mark the Ascetic
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.” – Song of Solomon
Paul Maher Jr. 