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Jill Hoy, Painter, Stonington, Maine

Come summer, meeting a Maine artist is no problem. Meeting a good one can be. If you want to meet a real artist in a real Maine fishing village, you definitely want to stop by to see Jill Hoy in her Stonington gallery. Jill’s paintings are joyous celebrations of everything we love about Maine: the […]

A person wearing a straw hat and holding brushes and a palette stands next to an easel with a colorful landscape painting by a lakeside. A bag of art supplies is placed nearby.

Photo Credit: Besaw, Bridget

Come summer, meeting a Maine artist is no problem. Meeting a good one can be. If you want to meet a real artist in a real Maine fishing village, you definitely want to stop by to see Jill Hoy in her Stonington gallery.

Jill’s paintings are joyous celebrations of everything we love about Maine: the land and the sea, the woods and the fields, the flowers and the gardens, the modest homes and the hardworking people who live in them, all illuminated by the crystalline light for which the Maine coast is famous. Jill has been summering in Maine since she was a little girl, so she “gets it.” She’s the real deal.

Jill Hoy Gallery, 80 Thurlows Hill Road. 207-367-2368.

Edgar Allen Beem

Take a look at art in New England with Edgar Allen Beem. He’s been art critic for the Portland Independent, art critic and feature writer for Maine Times, and now is a freelance writer for Yankee, Down East, Boston Globe Magazine, The Forecaster, and Photo District News. He’s the author of Maine Art Now (1990) and Maine: The Spirit of America (2000).

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