Mainer-with Love
22″ W X 2 2″ W X 48″ T Mixed Media Canvas, rescued chair, shells, rope, buoy, hand hooked pillow 2011
The creation of Mainer was a five year labor of love. The oil painting of the Heritage Schooner was inspired by the needlepoint chair backs I have enjoyed viewing at the Searsport Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine. The pillow was a wool hooked rug pillow created by a Castine, Maine rug maker and the buoy came from my lobster people family in Stockton Springs. The lobster claws are from three pound lobsters I buy, dry and clean using ant helpers. When “cured”, I seal them in boat epoxy. The large rope comes from local boat yards and found on the beaches I walk from Kittery to Eastport.
Sit on this chair and you will hear the oceans. More Mainer
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