Barn Gallery Show
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Barn Gallery Show
On view at the Barn Gallery from August 9th to September 9th.
Reception party is Saturday, August 19th from 5-7.
Barn Gallery
3 Hartwig Lane
Ogunquit, ME. 03907
click for directions207.646.8400
oacbarngallery@gmail.com
Hours:
Mon-Sat: 11 AM - 5 PM
Sun: 1 - 5 PM
Biography
Mid Coast Maine painter Janet Ledoux makes oil paintings that capture the changing light and weather, and the people in the landscape. Her work is noted for strong design and inventive color. A juried member of the historic Ogunquit Art Association, Janet is widely collected. Janet was raised in Hartland, CT and graduated from the Paier College of Art in New Haven, CT in 1980. After completing a 20-year career as an award winning Illustrator and Art Director, she began painting and exhibiting full time in 2000. Residency awards include the National Park Service and the Vermont Studio Center.
Artist Statement
As 2020 arrived, I was in the process of building a house in Jefferson, Maine, on a lake not far from the Atlantic. As the Pandemic surged, my husband and I scrambled to finish the house and move while he retired. I was surprised to find my painting process upended by this onrush of change, and I took a breath and stopped working while I figured out how to begin again. These paintings are some of the art I have made as I regained my path as a painter. They are paintings about the space all around me, my new studio, my new landscape, and my new life. I paint in oil directly from life, often outdoors, editing the many details into a simpler and more powerful whole. Although the work can vary from direct perceptual painting to a more markedly abstracted approach, the idea of something observed and distilled is always there.The subject is often the light, the geometry in boulders and trees, the language of color, movement, or people and our interaction with the world. I use oil paints for most of my paintings. Oil allows for more editing, layering, and altering as I rework a painting. I search for clarity by simplifying the subject to communicate through the language of paint. I have been influenced and aided by so many artists past and present. The art of Fairfield Porter and Lois Dodd continues to resonate for me, among many others.