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mimi gregoire carpenter
885 Pool St. (Rt. 9)
(207) 284-7021
bchcmb@gwi.net
Five miles from Cape Porpoise (2 miles after Clock Farm Corner/Goose Rocks ) you will arrive at her studio/gallery home. Open year 'round "at your convenience". Call first!
mimi gregoire carpenter, the author/illustrator of several children's picture books, including "What The Sea Left Behind"
, presents a unique and intimate view of the Maine seacoast. From her home outside of Cape Porpoise, she walks along her favorite beaches -
Hills, Fortunes Rocks, & Goose Rocks, gathering the treasures of the sea soon to become the subject of her next painting. Befriending
& sharing her passion, stories & tall tales with many marine biologists, mimi returns to her studio with her "detritus".After studying the
characteristic of each tiny unique specimen - now a part of her collection, she arranges them into a still life, as if on stage and meticulously draws out
her composi- tion - never using photographs. Dried Watercolors, arranged on her palette from warm to cool & very rarely cleaned or changed
from their muddy familiarity, are applied with fine bristled, barely dampenend brushes, layer by layer, to a smooth, hard-surfaced, hot press paper.
A "REMARQUE" of escaping shells is painted onto the rag hot press mounting board matt & framed.
Dubbed "environmental artist" by the Farnsworth Museum, mimi reverses what she considers the conventional way of looking at beach and water ...
viewing the wide scape through the small scope of minute observation. Her still lifes depict intricate coincidences of separate objects: pebbles,
fragments of lobster and crab shells, barnacles - "Things people step on, the leavings, the discoveries you can make if you free yourself from bigness,
and begin noticing the details that make possible the treasure hunt of being aware.\
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