Carver Hill Gallery represents many artists in shows, and seasonally, that may not always be on our website. Please feel free to email us at carverhillgallerymaine@yahoo.com or call 207-594-7745 if you seek work that you have seen in our gallery but do not see on our website. We also will do our best to find you art to suit a specific need.
Adriance DeGroff
Adriance de Groff has been sculpting and painting for over twenty five years. The daughter of a highly creative, artistic mother and a well-known designer father, she was exposed to fine art, craft and design in many forms. “It is from this background that I have emerged with my paint brush.”
“Asking me why I paint is like asking why the ocean does what it does. It is what I am *designed* to do. It is an innate passion and I cannot stop.”
America Martin
America Martin is a Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a scholarship student, and completed an eight year apprenticeship with Professor Vernon Wilson of the Art Center College of Design in California. Her work is heavily rooted in the masters, but is distinguishable as her own with a palpable positive spirit and recognizable human expression.
Athenae Jewelers
Athenae Jewelers – Lisa Svedberg and Tom Whiting have over 62 years of combined experience creating high-karat gold and platinum jewelry embellished with cut and carved exotic gemstones from all over the world. Influenced greatly by ancient cultures and natural forms, their designs combine elements of a lost age with the quality and execution of contemporary design. Athenae has refined an original style of timeless, wearable art, created especially for discerning jewelry collectors around the globe.
Dianne Schelble
Dianne Schelble’s paintings are vibrant works with generously applied paint, creating a unique look in watercolor resembling, from afar, a palette knife technique in oil. These paintings are alive in the moment – energetic and bold with intriguing light.
Dianne’s recent body of work reflects the colors that she ”feels” and senses in her environment.
Jean Victory
Jean Victory currently resides in central Maine after moving back to her home state twelve years ago from Olympia, Washington. As a child she was given the opportunity to live and travel throughout the United States which sparked her interest in the landscape and art.
“My interest in art began at about age four. I remember telling everyone that I was going to become an artist when I grew up. My first gallery exhibition occurred when I was just thirteen years old in Omaha, Nebraska.”
Jon Kolkin
For over thirty years, Jon Kolkin has been working tandem in the art of science and the art of photography. His interest in photography began at an early age while “experimenting” in his father’s dark room. Later, it became apparent that music was the perfect combination of science and art as Jon’s passion for the clarinet awarded him a position in the National Youth Symphony. He gained international recognition for his talent and was invited to tour with the group in Europe.
Laurie Goddard
Laurie Goddard’s body of lyrical abstracted landscapes comprises reflections of time spent in Italy, Japan, the Middle East and her home in Western Massachusetts. She sees these visual narratives as distillations of the many cultures she has experienced in her travels. The Asian influence on Laurie’s work comes from the study of Japanese architecture and calligraphy. The Italian influence comes from her years living in Milan. Her recent trip to the Middle East inspired a rich series of works on paper heavily influenced by women, their clothing and their role in the culture there.
“Now that I have traveled a bit in the Middle East – Morocco, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia – the desert, the pace and rhythms of the Bedouin, the colors and particularly the music are influencing my work in new ways. In my attempt to reveal underlying structures and reconnect eras, I have come to realize that these references are wonderfully compatible.”
Marieluise Hutchinson
Marieluise Hutchinson was born just post World War II, when American Patriotism was heartily celebrated and something her folks were deeply proud of. She spent her early years in the pastoral landscape of an 1820′s homestead with 11 acres of farmland on the South Shore of Boston. Her paintings reflect a do-it-yourself time of hard work and simple pleasures. They speak of American independence and fortitude. They represent places we have all been or seen, beautifully lit by the natural sunlight of vast clear skies.
Marieluise calls her paintings “Farmscapes”, and searches the New England countryside for worthy subjects to devote her attention and brush to. They usually lack the physical presence of people or animals, though it is obvious they are there – a light may be on, a door ajar, or an open window curtain billows in the breeze. The action itself is not shared with us, but its evidence is left for us to imagine the scene. “Every painting of mine tells a story,” she says. “You can look in the window and smell a pot roast in the oven and a fresh-baked apple pie and see a cat reclining on a rocking chair near the fireplace.”
Philippe Guillerm
Philippe Guillerm is a master of form, giving it priority over function in his compelling sculptures. He liberates the soul of his “instruments”, adding physical expression to voice. Philippe is a remarkable craftsman – he seems to work the wood effortlessly, as if it were clay. The end result is a piece that appears as fluid as it should sound. Guillerm’s music-inspired sculptures are whimsical and curvaceous string instruments. He uses this continuous theme as a way of expressing human nature and needs; you may see an instrument, but Philippe sees an attitude. In addition to the musical theme, many of his sculptures depict sea scenes and animals. His other works include functional art like “Sculptural-speakers”, finely carved furniture, large dimensional wall murals and monumental outdoor pieces. He works with exotic and local wood such as mahogany, aspen, jacaranda, poplar, wengue, purple heart, and walnut, using the wood’s color like a painter uses paint. His works reflect dreams, illusions, and reality and invite the viewer to stop and reflect about human nature.
Mikhail Mikora
Mikhail Mikora was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1964. He attended the Republican School of Art from 1976 – 1982, and immediately moved on to the Kiev Art Academy, graduating in 1990 from the Department of Monumental Painting. In 1994 he moved to Prague, and was deeply moved by the music and performing arts that permeate the historic city. In 2006 he received a grant from the Prague Municipality for his solo exhibition “Jazzart” in the Ukrainian Embassy. “Jazz for me is more than just music. It is the essence of art, free skill. It is a combination of extraordinary sensuality with methodic approach” – Mikhail Mikora
Stephen Gleasner
Stephen Gleasner is a published writer, veteran woodturner, long distance cyclist and self proclaimed mad-man with over 25 years of experience in all four. Currently, he specializes in the carved and dyed wall pieces he calls “Plyscapes” and turned vessels that explore the patterning possibilities of Baltic Birch plywood. This material is imported from Finland and used in aeronautical applications. Its veneers are all “clear”, meaning free from knots and imperfections that may weaken the wood, and very thin. He uses a lathe for his vessels, and carves with hand tools to create the highly unusual, stunning plyscapes. He applies German dyes to the work when the actual constructing is done. This is a risky process that can quickly go wrong. No one else in the world – as far as we can find – has ever attempted this technique. Stephen considers his “tools” artistic implements as opposed to utilitarian items in his work – like paintbrushes to a painter.
Ted Keller
Watercolorist Ted Keller has taught art courses for the University of Maine for twenty years. Formerly a sculptor and clay artist, Ted spends most of his time painting now. His images are loose, rich in color, and full of life and humor. The subject matter varies, but most of the paintings are about people in interesting environments. Some scenes are representative of a real place, others are imaginative. Ted says that he feels enormous love for the people he paints. He wants the viewer to understand that though his work can appear caricature-ish, he is absolutely showing reverence for his subjects.
