2015, '16, '17, 18' 19' '23 (last yr.)    
Biddeford Pool, Maine

Painting and Poetry Retreat at the Marie Joseph Spiritual Center 

Marie Joseph Spiritual Center

 I enjoyed 6 years of painting with friends at Biddeford Pool.  The Retreat Center closed.  The building was demolished. Thankfully, the land was purchased by a local land trust.  Hopefully, the swallows will still come and find their nesting boxes ready.  Check on line for old photos of the building which had many lives since the early 1900's.    



 

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...and Bruce. 2023

2023: The last year. Heather taught me about cold wax! 6x6 White Doorways.

Bidderford Pool 2023 me, Heather Pilchard, Joanne Talbot Quinn, June Gray

2017: I'm on the left, friend, Joanne Talbot Quinn, on the right, Painting dandelions within earshot of the surf on the rocks!

Getting a feel for the place! 2017

J.Q. framing a painting.

2015, my first year.

2017

Lots of art talk. Joanne and Helene. 2017.

Home of the Snowy Egret #1, oil, 8x8

Home of the Snowy Egret #2, oil, 8x8

Spring Among the Red-winged Blackbirds, oil, 8x8

Swallows Over the Pond, oil 8x8

Spring Birches by the Sea, 10x10, oil

       I don't think I'll miss the sea.
I've given my heart to the soft hills; red pine, white pine and hemlock.
A gentle lake murmur will do.
  
But and still, to be along the shore for a time.
Wave sound, Colors, all shades of blue/grey and tan.
White surf and green spill,
Sharp tang.
Liquid mirror on rippled sand.

A lone figure: dark spot in the distance.
Impossible clouds, moving en-masse toward me,
Blotting out the yellow skyline.
Spitting drops of rain.

A Malicoat painting.  (His colors.)


(BBA 2018)