Peter is a Midcoast Maine Artist living and working out of his studio in Stockton Springs, Maine. Primarily a landscape painter known for his shaped panel paintings he is also a Maine mural artist with works throughout the state.

About the work: The Thomas Hill Standpipe's lights were thought to be the reason Bangor is called The Queen City as it appeared as a crown to travelers up the Penobscot River.  The female Merganser Duck returns annually to this waterway.

Liam is a muralist and tattoo artist from Bangor, Maine, and the artist/owner of Sons of Loki Tattoo in Brewer. After attending RISD and UMaine and achieving a BFA in studio art, Liam has painted murals all over the world with a focus on his hometown.

About the work: I have always naturally gravitated towards both seascape painting and surrealism as a means of expressing what can’t be put into words. My inspirations range from Dali, to Rembrandt and Homer. I hope my pieces help bring the sublime into normal life. 

Born in the ’80s and raised on Air Force bases worldwide, I earned my BFA in Idaho and have since lived across the U.S. Now in Maine, I draw inspiration from constant change, diverse landscapes, and the cultures I’ve called home.

About the work: The Blueberry Bear honors memory, music, and Maine summers. Inspired by childhood, I imagined a blissful bear in a berry patch. Using AI to sketch the mood, I painted the final piece by hand—mixing each hue from scratch to create a sun-soaked dream.

I create items appealing either in their beauty, tranquility or gentleness. I prefer realistic artworks, but enjoy making artistic choices that enhance the perspective, color or shape of an art piece. Graduate of RISD illustration program.

About the work: My mural interpretation of a Maine theme was inspired by my childhood summers visiting on Peaks Island enjoying many days on the backshore climbing rocks with friends, searching for adventures. I captured a sailboat drifting behind a cairn someone had built and I thought this would be a wonderful depiction of life on the coast that many long for.

I’m a Hampden artist and have always loved creating.  Color, composition and quirky subjects attract me. 

About the work: I painted these red snappers that are still made in Bangor and are celebrated with a festival in Dexter so that passersby will smile.

Alexis Price is a contemporary artist known for bold, symbolic portraits exploring femininity, power, and transformation. Now based in Maine, she blends myth, motherhood, and personal ritual into vivid, emotionally charged oil paintings.

About the work: This painting reflects my early motherhood in Maine—marked by transformation, solitude, and unexpected belonging. Inspired by its wild magic, it’s a love letter to the land that held us and the steady rhythm of nature that shaped our first few years.

MJ Viano Crowe creates intricate Scherenschnitt/paper cuts, mixed media paintings and installations, photographic assemblages, light box shrines and artist books, where representations of the female figure perform on the various stages she creates.

Most of my life I have been an artist living in Maine, although I did study at the Art Students League in NYC. The goal for me was to express myself artistically in an original manner. Stylistically my work is representational but not realistic. 

Susan is a visual arts and fiber arts teacher in Bangor.

About the work: The painting comes from the American Barn Quilt tradition, using colors inspired by the Maine landscape.  Student drawings of Maine flora and fauna have been incorporated into the blue "fabric". The block, known as Flying Geese, captures the spirit of Maine's people working collectively in forward motion.

Ryan is a tattooer and artist from Bangor focusing on American Traditional and Biomechanical tattoos.

About the work (titled: 'I Am Who I Am Because of Bangor, Maine and Traditional Tattooing') I love antiques and seeing Bangor’s history through photos. Seeing old photos of the logging industry inspired me to create a logger of my own, mixing in my love for biomechanical tattoo art. The future meets the past!

Born & raised in Bangor, currently living near MDI, loves plants and nature, neon colors and works in gardening as her day job.

About the work: I chose to paint a scene representing the Orono bog walk because the boardwalk is such an iconic part of our area, and some of the coolest native plants hang out there! I’d never pass up an opportunity to paint a pitcher plant, lady slipper or fern!

I am a retired human service worker who has explored art making since 2008. I enjoy painting the activities of people of Maine and their places of work. We are reflected in the mundane of life. That is exciting. 

About the work: Musicians, playing in a barn, seen in changing light space, playing for the joy of making music.  Folk music, barns, and joy are part of the glorious story of who we are as Mainers and how we celebrate. May that always be true!

JoAnne attended the University of Maine and received a BS in studio art and a BA in education. She exhibits at the Eastport Gallery and helped start Local Color Gallery in Belfast. She operates her Bangor Studio and Gallery and is open weekdays.

About the work: I chose to paint the umbrellas on Cross Street in Bangor where my studio is located. This is the final year for this colorful installation and I thought is would be nice to give them a permanent presence because people seemed to enjoy them.

Painting animals in human settings to show how we live in a shared environment is my passion. Partial profits from the sale of my work goes to animal sanctuaries.

About the work: What's more Maine than seagulls and lobsters?

Sam Bullard (they/them) is a queer artist from the Greater Bangor area & tattoo apprentice at Timber Hearth. Sam loves to play with semi-realistic subjects & surreal color palettes. They use various mediums including embroidery, collage, & acrylic.

About the work: I wanted to capture memories of my grandparents' place on Piper Pond. We’d kayak past the loon nest and fall asleep to their calls. We made memories frogcatching, storytelling around the fire, and swimming for long hours; it was such a special place.

I'm a Bangor-based oil painter and printmaker inspired by myth, nature, and transcendentalism. My work explores themes of life, death, and rebirth through symbolism and atmosphere.

About the work: My painting was inspired by butterflies commonly found in Maine, including the Monarch, Spring Azure, and Cabbage White. Maine is vital to the Monarch’s life cycle, as they lay their eggs here on native milkweed.

Kat is an artist and full-time art teacher at Brewer High School. @katjohnsonart

About the work: When thinking about Maine and the work we do at BB, my aim was to incorportate native plants and represent community some way within the piece. The patterns of the quilt square (which reference a barn quilt - one of the very first public art projects in America) are comprised of illustrations of serviceberry, low-bush blueberry, and trillium - plants all native to Maine.  

Randi Watson is a figurative painter and illustrator based out of Levant, Maine. Originally from the Deep South, her work explores themes relating to womanhood, spirituality, nature, and the joys and challenges of living in a rural community.

About the work: After discovering the skeleton of a moose in the northern Maine woods, Watson was inspired to create a piece that highlights the resiliency of the creatures that endure Maine’s brutally harsh winters. 

James Linehan was a Professor of Art and former Department Chair at the University of Maine and taught courses in painting, drawing and design. After receiving a B.F.A. in Painting at Arizona State University in 1974, he continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned an M.A. in painting in 1976 and an M.F.A. in 1978. Prior to moving to Maine in 1983 he taught for five years at St. Andrews College in North Carolina.

Linehan is represented by Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine; Gallery 357 in Rockland, Maine; Vose Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; and Sherry French Gallery, New York, N.Y. His work has been included in over one hundred group shows and twenty solo shows in the past fifteen years. He has completed twenty public commissions, including fifteen for the Maine Arts Commission Percent For Art Project, and is represented in thirty public and corporate collections.