Assembled Downeast Artists

During the month of February artists Kathy Allen, Daksha Baumann, Marechel Brown, Bonnie Chase, Susan Steinbrock, and Patricia Wheeler will be showing their art for the month of February.

The photo attached is a sample of some of the fine work available on display.

Kathy Allen is native to the Blue Hill Brooklin area. Creating artful projects has been an integral part of her career as a teacher and as part-owner of Creeping Thyme Farm Arts. Fiber art is a recent exploration for her.

Daksha Bauman’s current work centers on fibers, fabric, thread, yarn, string and wire.  She considers “any material longer than wide and flexible” to be worth exploration.  Her work with fiber “engages her each day and feels as necessary and significant as food.”

Bonnie Chase, a botanist, biologist and naturalist by trade, lives on a small organic farm on MDI.  She grows, collects, forages and creates the tools with which she makes her art including fiber dyes, inks, pigments and paints. Her mixed media art is inspired by the nature which surrounds her in Downeast Maine.

Marechel Brown lived in “the other Brooklyn” for forty years where she spent a lot of time wandering through neighborhoods, photographing whatever caught her eye.  The group of “Votives” she is showing was inspired by the graffiti and the artists who tagged the walls.  Each votive contains a word or phrase significant to the graffiti artist who created them.  Marechel considers these votives “sacred symbols whose meanings elude”.

Susan Steinbrock’s current work includes sewn fabric “paintings” and gouache paintings inspired by them. She is honored to be showing her work with other local artists.

Patricia Wheeler feels “that art can be active, holding real power, not just metaphoric meaning. [Her] painting practice has always included an element of ritual and deep listening. It serves as a space throughout which encounters with person and collective energies coalesce.”