Spring  2018 
Biddeford Pool, Maine 

Painting and Poetry Retreat at the Marie Joseph Spiritual Center 

2018 is the fourth year I've gone to Biddeford Pool, to walk among the sea splashed coastal rocks of Maine, joining 20 artists/writers on a creative retreat.  Four of us came from Cape Cod, most came from the Worchester, Princeton, Central Mass. area.  We enjoyed meals together, painted alone or in groups and met in the evenings for "show and tell", conversation and sharing of our written thoughts.

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

Getting a feel for the place! 2017

Pond by the Sea

J.Q. framing a painting.

2015, my first year.

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)