Artist Statement:
My name is Bobbi Heath and I paint from life and imagination. I like to push the limits and find that mixing abstracts with plein air work keeps everything fresh.
To me painting is largely about nature, and our enjoyment of it. I find the many inspiration in my adopted state of Maine, where we have a cottage on Casco Bay. I often gather material for paintings during summer trips with my husband and son on our sailboat, returning with a painting notebook of sketches interspersed with the ship’s log and listings of the many photographs I take to keep the vibrant colors in my mind. What I hope you see in my work is a wonderful reminder of somewhere you have been or a day that was perfect, or perhaps an enticement to find this beautiful spot and make it part of your memories.
I use a limited palette, with a warm and cool of each of the primaries and white. I start with a quick sketch in my book, adjusting the composition until I get something I like. Then I move to the canvas, roughing in the composition with color masses. Sometimes it doesn't take much more than that, and others require a few passes to refine the details. I most often paint with a direct approach, the whole painting is done wet on wet in one session.
Professional/Teaching Experience:
2014 and 2015 Daily Painting, Color in Abstract and Representational Painting, Plein Air Oil, at River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, Artascope, Yarmouth, ME, Tidewater Farm, Falmouth, ME, Castine Arts Association, Castine, ME; 2010 and 2011 Daily Painting and Blogging Workshop at River Arts, Damariscotta, ME
Exhibitions:
Castine Plein Air Festival, Castine ME, 2014, 2015
Ocean Park Plein Air Festival, Ocean Park (Old Orchard Beach), ME, 7/8/2014 - 7/11/2014 - 3rd place winner
Members I Show at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, January 15 – February 16, 2014
Small Works Holiday Show, Yarmouth Frame and Gallery, December 3 through February 2014
Small Originals, Concord Art Association, Concord MA, Dec. 4 through 20, 2013
Celebrating Color, River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, December, 2013
Plein Air Painters of Maine at the BRAF Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, ME, November, 2013
Autumn, River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, Oct. 4 – Nov. 7, 2013
Castine Plein Air Festival, Castine, ME, July 27, 2013
"Postcards from Provence" group show at the Yarmouth Frameshop and Gallery, Yarmouth, ME, 201"Anything Goes" juried show at River Arts, Damariscotta, ME, 2010
Christmas Shows at the Yarmouth Frameshop and Gallery, Yarmouth, ME and at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, 2010
Solo show at The Gallery at Boothbay Harbor, Boothbay Harbor, ME, 2009
“Scenes of Yarmouth” solo show at the Yarmouth Frame Shop and Gallery, Yarmouth, ME, 2006
“Summer’s Palette” duet show at the Window Tree Gallery, Brunswick ME, 2004
“Summer Days” solo show at the Thomas Spencer Gallery, Yarmouth, ME, 2003
