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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.
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
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.
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.
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 or 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.
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