Yarmouth Art Festival

Sara Gray

SARA GRAY BIO I began painting after transitioning from a successful photography business of 25 years. My work has always been influenced by my love of the natural landscape. I was brought up on a horse farm in VT and lived and traveled extensively throughout the US and abroad. It was always the varying landscapes that touched me deeply and inspired me to pick up the camera and more recently the paint brush. Photography has been extremely important in my transition to painting. It taught me to see and how to compose a compelling image. It also taught me the importance of light and the role it plays in a successful image. Painting has allowed me a different level of intimacy with the landscape. By slowing down and spending hours looking at a subject I see details and subtle nuances that went unnoticed when photographing the same landscape. What fascinates me after spending years of recording light with my camera is that I am now the creator of light in my paintings through the use of color and value. I studied extensively at the Maine College of Art in their Continuing Studies Program painting with Janet Manyan and Diane Dahlke. After discovering Plein Air painting and the challenge and joy of creating outside once again I began taking workshops with Plein Air painters I admire including Tim Horn, Jon Redmond, Bjorn Runquist, Mark Boedges, Lori Putnam and Claudia Rilling. I currently paint with oils and the landscape of Maine and Vermont continue to offer a constant source of inspiration. SARA GRAY CV Born: Burlington, VT 1963 EDUCATION: 1985 - BA - Geography - UC Santa Barbara 1988 - Maine Photographic Residency Program 2010-2016 - Maine College of Art - Continuing Studies Painting and Drawing Classes JURIED PLEIN AIR FESTIVALS 2022 - Brush with Nature - Maine Audubon 2022 - Perkins Cove Plein Air Festival - Ogunquit, ME 2022 - Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival - Parrsboro, Nova Scotia 2020 - Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival - Honorable Mention Award 2019 - Castine Plein Air Festival - Castine, ME - Honorable Mention Award 2019 - Plein Air Brandywine Valley - Pennsylvania OPEN PLEIN AIR FESTIVALS 2018 - Jericho Plein Air -Emile Gruppe Gallery - Jericho, VT 2017 - Jericho Plein Air - Emile Gruppe Gallery - Jericho, VT JURIED EXHIBITIONS: 2022 - Bryan Memorial Gallery - “Land Light Water and Air” - Jeffersonville, VT 2022 - American Impressionist Society Associate Members Online Show 2021 - National Oil and Acrylic Painting Society - Associate Member Online Show 2020 - River Arts - Damariscotta, ME - Artists Choice 2019 - The Barn Gallery - Ogunquit, ME - Annual Juried Open Exhibition 2018 - Boothbay Region Art Foundation - Boothbay Harbor, ME - Art in ME 2018 - Bryan Memorial Gallery - Jeffersonville, VT - “Land & Light” 2018 - The Barn Gallery - Ogunquit, ME - Annual Juried Open Exhibition 2017 - Bryan Memorial Gallery - Jeffersonville, VT - “ Land and Light” 2016 - Bryan Memorial Gallery- Jeffersonville, VT - “Land and Light” 2016 - MECA - Create V - Continuing Studies Student Show 2015 - MECA Create IV - Continuing Studies Student Show 2014 - The Barn Gallery - Ogunquit, ME - Annual Juried Open Exhibition 2013 - MECACreate II - Continuing Studies Student Show 2012 - MECA Create I - Continuing Studies Student Show GROUP SHOWS: 2022 - Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival - Parrsboro, Nova Scotia 2019- Brandywine Valley Plein Air Show - Wintethur Museum- PA - Juried Member 2019 - Bryan Memorial Gallery- - Jeffersonville, VT - “Giants & Gems” 2019 - Helen Day Art Center - Stowe, VT - “ Member Show” 2019 - Castine Plein Air Show - Castine, ME - Juried Member 2019 - Townsend Real Estate/Art Gallery - Cape Elizabeth, ME 2016 - Gems - Bryan Memorial Gallery 2014 - MECA - Wednesday Mornings - Mill Painters Group Show 2013 - Pop Up Art Show - Four Artist Show - Yarmouth, ME 2012 - 81 Oak Street Studio - Portland, ME - Mill Painter’s Group Show SOLO SHOWS: 2018 - Show Home - Townsend Real Estate - Cape Elizabeth, ME 2016 - Townsend Gallery - Cape Elizabeth, ME - “Places Revisited” AWARDS: 2020 - Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival - Honorable Mention 2019 - Castine Plein Air Festival - Honorable Mention COMMISSION: 2019 - Falmouth Land Trust - Painting to be reproduced on 2019 membership sticker and auctioned at Land Trust Event to raise money for FLT MEDIA: 2019 - Town & Tourist - Cover Art of Monthly publication 2018 - Maine College of Art - Continuing Studies catalogue EDUCATION: MENTORSHIP: 2021 - Claudia Rilling - 8 wk Mentorship 2018 - Lori Putnam - 6 Month Mentorship CONTINUING STUDIES: 2009-2015 - MECA - Various painting and drawing classes with Diane Dahlke and Janet Manyan. WORKSHOPS: Caleb Stone, Bjorn and Tollef Runquist ,Kim Bernard, Mark Boedges ,Tim Horn, Margaret Gerding, Jon Redmond and Lori Putnam. MEMBERSHIPS: Oil Painters of America American Impressionist Society

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