In May, I spent two weeks as a StudioWorks Resident Artist at the Tides Institute in Eastport, Maine. The weather was foggy and rough, with a light brightening after many blustery days.
I worked on a large etching after exploring the shoreline and researching at the Tides Institute Museum of Art looking at archives of photographs and prints that explore the region. Categories of immediate interest were the Davis Loring photograph collection, wood engravings that feature the sea (e.g. At Sea—Signalling a passing Steamer, drawn by Winslow Homer, and Sea’s Strange Calm, a lithograph by Stow Wengenroth); as well as a woodcut print by artist Jack Frost that chronicles the sardine production line of B.H. Wilson Fisheries.
Thank you to Kristin McKinlay and Hugh French for their kind hospitality and fellow resident artist Amanda Sisk who explored the art of making cameos during her tenure.