Artists | Chaptertwo

Chapter Two is proud to show the work of exceptional, locally connected artists and artisans creating original work of the highest caliber in a variety of media. Visit the gallery to savor our current selection of fine art and craft, or contact us for further information about available work by a particular gallery contributor.

Rose Arenstam -- Quilts

Gouldsboro, ME, artist Rose Arenstam is a quilter extraordinaire and her work is filled with an extravagance of color, dimension and shape. Although she often incorporates traditional quilting patterns, blocks and shapes into her work, she puts in her own contemporary twists, resulting in eye-catching, artful fiber pieces which go far beyond the normal concept of a quilt. Rose’s quilt are expressions of delight and celebrations of the beauty of life.

Lou Charlett - Turned Wood

New Gloucester, ME artist Louis Charlett designed and built hand crafted furniture for more than 30 years. More recently, he has focused on producing lamps, turned bowls, and trays. With a distinctive style his work pays homage to classic design and contemporary influences. Each of Lou's woodwork pieces is a unique creation that highlights the natural elegance and beauty of wood, combining functionality and glamour in a stunning work of art

silver, bronze, jewelry, metal casting, indigo dying wearable fiber art

Cynthia Cetlin -- Jewelry

Lamoine artist Cynthia Cetlin, moved to Maine with her partner Jon Quick, after a long career teaching jewelry and metals at numerous schools and universities, most recently Ohio Wesleyan University. She creates custom jewelry using an extensive variety of techniques, processes and designs. Her most recent work is inspired by Maine’s marine life, with bronze and silver elements cast from mussels, urchins, seaweed and barnacles. Cynthia is also a fiber artist, particularly focused on natural indigo dying and wearable fiber art.

Martha Chessie - Handwoven Baskets

Roque Bluffs and Shapleigh, ME, artist Martha Chessie creates incomparable hand woven baskets that capture the essence of Maine. Her intricate pieces are both beautiful, functional and collectable. From berry picking baskets to market baskets, picnic baskets to Adirondack pack baskets, Martha's work is intricate, solid and elegant. Many of here pieces incorporate color, carefully chosen embellishments, adornments and whimsical elements, that give them individual character that is uniquely Martha!

Natalie Craig -- Painter

San Francisco, CA, artist Natalie Craig was a 2007 Acadia National Park Artist in Resident and has shown work at the gallery since 2008. Her art explores the relationship between observation and interpretation in everyday landscapes and is a search for beauty in chaos. She strives to create art that pays homage to contradictions and compliments in the environment. In her work Natalie captures tranquility and mayhem, fear and courage, fragility and strength.

Corea, pottery, coffee mug, ceramics, plates, bowls

Lee Cummings - Pottery

Portland, ME potter Lee Cummings has over 50 years of experience creating with clay, as a production potter and a college level pottery instructor. Whether working with sinuous coils, soft slabs or balls of clay, Lee sculpts pieces that are both utilitarian and beautiful. Her mugs, plates and bowls, in vivid colors and subtle designs are perfect statements of the importance of design in everyday items.

Maria Denjongpa -- papier-mache

Beverly, MA, artist Maria Dejongpa creates awesome spirit creatures out of paper- mache. She finds something magical in the hard hollowness of papier-mache: the fact that something like old newspaper can retransformed into something hard, three dimensional and filled with dimension and life. Her art is non-cerebral; it comes from turning off the thinking part of her brain and allowing whatever flutters up in the branches or lurks in the dark corners to find physical form. Sometimes her creations come fully expressed and others times she has to paint and repaint many times until the colors and patterns are right, and the form finds its essence.

Kurt Einhaus -- Painting

Corea and Beverly, MA artist Kurt Einhaus is inspired by his life in New England and his paintings are fueled by the creative process that is an integral part of his mind and soul. His work is instilled with a deep sense of energy, power and mindfulness. His paintings are immersive, filled with humbling power and constant energy and yet are quiet, placid and calming with a subtlety of stroke and color.

collage artist, papwer artist, Maine artist

Barbara Fernald -- Collage

Isleford, ME, artist Barbara Fernald loves working with paper. In June 2022, her good friend, artist Miklos Pogany, arrived on Little Cranberry Island, and Barbara spent time with him working on collages and talking about life and death. After Miklos passed that August, his widow offered Barbara a large flat file of Miklos’ castoff collages and monotypes. The colorful abstract art inspires her. As she looks through Miklos’ work, elements jump out at her. She cuts up and rearranges what speaks to her to create art that is unique and a testament to island life, connections, community, generosity and friendship.

Roy Gruver - Fused Glass

Prospect Harbor and Bethlehem, PA artist Roy Gruver, along with his partner Rhonda Snowaert, specializes in kiln-formed glass creations. He uses color, line and heat to create movement and intricate patterns in functional fused glass pieces -- bowls and platters. He also creates geometric wall panels in striking colors. Roy and Rhonda have a long history of teaching art glass techniques, most recently at The Corning Museum of Glass and locally through Schoodic Arts for All.

Nicole Herz -- Woodblock Prints

Bar Harbor Artist Nicole Herz has always been fascinated by structures. She finds beauty in the abstracting angles and forms of the branches of a tree in winter, the architectural lines of an old Maine barn and the remnants of her gardens. From the initial drawing, to the carving of the wood and the printing on Japanese paper with painted on water-based inks, she makes tough decisions to create a strong, peaceful image. Color, texture and shape are the critical elements of her work, which is in the traditional Japanese technique of Mokuhanga. Nicole's art is exceptional for its use of simplicity to achieve a complex sophistication that is elegant and inspiring.

Tom Hitchins -- Folk Art

Steuben, ME, artist Tom Hitchins has turned to creating art for solace and pleasure. Tom's eye for space, shape, geometry, line, material and design emerged from his very successful career as an architect in New Jersey and Maine. Focusing on sustainability, Tom makes new art from old bits, pieces and whatnots, repurposing the detritus of life into art evocative of the coast of Maine. His downeast boats, schooners and airships are quirky and quaint, sassy, witty, sarcastic, sardonic and downright fun.

Lisa Holt - Pebble and Seaglass Collage

Camden, ME, artist Lisa Holt has been creating whimsical collages using beach stones, pebbles, seaglass, and shells for more than 20 years. Often found wondering Maine's beaches for inspiration, the now retired elementary school teacher has an exceptional eye for shape, detail and design. Lisa's creations achieve a level of sophistication and nuance that set them apart.

maine, art, acrylics, painting, coast, seascapes

Lucille Holt Sottery -- Painting

Steuben and Cape Elizabeth, ME, artist Lucille Holt Sottery, having grown up in the hustle and bustle of New York loves the beauty and peacefulness of Maine . Early in her art career, she focused on water colors but transitioned to acrylics for the control and texture the medium offers. Her work is inspired by her surroundings. She explores her world with curiosity and passion, interpreting what she sees with an unparalleled depth of detail and vibrancy of color. The results are perceptive views of life and nature that inspire, calm and warm the soul

Pat Horton Felted Fiber Vessels

Sedgwick, Maine, artist Pat Horton creates "nestels" at her Bagaduce Tides Fiberworks studio. Using friction, agitation, soap and water she turns wool fibers into vessels that are fun, funky and functional. Using a resist and wool batts, the creative possibilities are endless, and Pat sculpts vessels of myriad shapes and sizes. By adding color, and employing silk and metallic threads, branches and other embellishments, Pat crafts each piece into a unique work of art.

Margo Klass -- Bookmaking & Mixed Media Constructions

Corea and Fairbanks, AK artist Margo Klass creates intricate art books as well as phenomenal mixed media constructions. She internalized the meticulous craftsmanship that bookbinding demands early in her career, and the tools, materials, techniques, and skills of bookbinding are still the foundations of her artistic process. Her artist books that are more traditional in structure -- configurations of two-dimensional pages between front and back covers -- are bound with precision and craftsmanship. Margo also does a lot of three-dimensional work, box constructions and other sculptural works. These focus on a single theme, often incorporate found objects and are reflections of the kind of aesthetic solitude that has always been important to her. Always, she strives for intimacy, contemplation, and stillness in time and place.

maine artist, watercolors, acrylics, contemporary art, abstract art

Sember Lockwood -- Painting

Camden, ME, artist Sember Lockwood is a self taught artist who approaches her work with curiosity, passion and spirituality. She explores and interprets nature and her environment through a strong sense of color, movement and design. She believes that understanding beauty is a sensory experience — visual, tactile and whole-body encompassing, and she incorporates this philosophy into each piece of her work. Using bits of nature and a variety of media, forms and styles, whatever Sember touches becomes a unique work of art.

Paul Markowitz - Mobiles

Montpelier, VT, artist Paul Markowitz is an emerging kinetic artist who has focused on balance movement, line and color since his retirement from full-time work in 2019. His art is inspired by Alexander Calder, to whom Paul offers enormous gratitude for brining the art form to the forefront. Paul's mobiles are created from aluminum and wire and sometimes incorporate other media such as seaglass, small stones and shells. He tries to incorporate whimsy into his work, and many of his pieces are playful, amusing flights of fancy. His artistic goal is to bring a smile to the people who see his art.

Julie McWIlliams -- Painting

Milbridge, ME, artist Julie McWilliams is best known as a figurative painter from lower New York City. Although her focus continues to be with the human form, she has been influenced by the Maine landscape since moving here in 2019. Her art is still strongly based in expressionism, but she is developing a deep appreciation for simple deliberate draftsmanship. The result is a body of work that is evolving, alluring, arresting and engaging.

Dan Miller - Woodblock Prints and Woodblocks

Corea, ME, and Christiana, PA, artist Dan Miller has taught at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts since 1964. Although gifted in a variety of media, Dan considers himself to be primarily a printmaker. He is renowned for his Corea inspired works: seascapes, landscapes, birds, insects and animals. He also creates detailed portraits of writers, philosophers, artists and musicians, focusing on people who have interesting faces with exceptional character. Using soft pine, he carves his blocks using a straight-edged razor blade. After completing a print run, he used to use his blocks as firewood, but then came to see them as original works of art that are available for sale. This summer, he will celebrate his 97th birthday.