DAMARISCOTTA

Hati Modr of Harpswell to show at Savory Maine

Harpswell artist Hati Modr will display her work in Damariscotta beginning June 15. The show will run through July 25, with an opening reception on June 24 from 3-5 p.m. at Savory Maine.

Modr’s still life and landscape oil paintings are inspired by sunlight and the shadows it casts. Walking on Monhegan Island and around Harpswell on sunny Maine days, the light informs what she will create next.

“The excitement is in finding these images where the light dazzles and to be there in that moment,” Modr said. “Such a surprise to turn a corner and see a painting with the light just so, blues of sky and sea, the old buildings where fishermen lived and worked the water.”

Modr has been drawing and painting since she was a child, and music has also been an important part of her life. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and then began to seriously study art with Michael Lewis at the University of Maine. She studied watercolor painting with Viola Lyman, oil painting with Alfred Chadbourn and the Renaissance technique with Alex Gnidziejko. In England she studied sculpture with Jane Hamilton. A graduate of the Baldwin School, she completed her Associate Art degree at the University of Maine in Augusta.

In her studio, one of the oldest structures in Harpswell, she paints her landscapes and still life.

“There is a window on the south side where light floods in during the afternoon,” she said. “I go back to paint at the same time of the day when I work on a still life.

A working member of the Stable Gallery in Damariscotta, down the street from Savory Maine, Modr views the arts as a way to create community — by bringing people together to view art and create it.

The public is invited to a reception for Modr at Savory Maine on June 24. Savory Maine will provide finger foods, and wine and beer will be available.

For more information call (207) 563- 2111, ‘like’ Savory Maine on Facebook, or visit savorymainedining.com.

Midcoast Maine artists at Damariscotta River Grill

A new exhibit of paintings and pastels celebrating art, life, every day objects and summer in Maine opens June 13 as part of The Art at The Damariscotta River Grill series.

Three Midcoast Maine artists — Léa Peterson, Denise Rankin and Rebecca Yates Shorb — will share their work and be on hand during the show’s reception to be held June 15 from 4-5:30 p.m. at the restaurant. All artwork is for sale.

Peterson, of Georgetown, has been painting and studying art since she was a child. Her paintings include studies of coastal skiffs and dinghies, Maine lobstermen at work, fields of lupines in bloom, tugboats and cranes at Bath Iron Works shipyard, North Atlantic puffins in their nesting habitats and the stormy sea.

Painting is a daily event for Peterson, both en plein air or in her studio.

“My goal is to convey the extraordinary beauty in ordinary places, objects and events,” she said. “When people look at my work, I want it to strike a chord — evoke a positive memory or emotion and in some way resonate with and reinforce something good in their lives.”

Damariscotta artist Rankin paints everyday objects. Work from her current series, “Advice Your Mother Gave You,” and “Saints Drinking Coffee,” will be part of the work she shares.

Yates Shorb, a pastel artist living and working in Maine and Pennsylvania, is passionate about the outdoors and painting en plein air. She conducts the critiques for “Plein Air Painters — the Real Thing,” a group of 25 artists painting the Midcoast. Yates Shorb has received numerous awards, the most recent being the Doris Cohen Memorial award conferred in May. She and her husband Harold are avid collectors of art and share their collection with interested groups in Pennsylvania. She also mentors newcomers to the pastel medium, serves on the Board of the Arts Guild and conducts Salon Critiques.

Damariscotta River Grill is located at 155 Main St. Damariscotta. For more information about the show, contact Kim Traina at jumpstartcreative@gmail.com. For more information about the restaurant, visit damariscottarivergrill.com.

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