Golden Silence

Golden SilenceEmma Ashby grew up in England, where her deep affection for coastal landscapes was cultivated. Today, she continues to be inspired by the coastline around her home in Portsmouth NH. Emma paints with an ancient medium called encaustic and has an MA from the Royal College of Art. About this collection: Beauty & Beeswax This exhibition celebrates the ancient art of encaustic paintinga 2,000 year old technique that fuses layers of molten beeswax combined

Lauren Richelieu is a scientific illustrator from the coast of Maine

Can you help Ploof find the right shape

A hand-illustrated letterpress chart detailing flora and fauna native to the Great State of Maine

Liminal Landscapes A collection that captures the fleeting moments of unassuming beauty found in the quiet transitions between seasons

She moved from Brooklyn to a farmhouse filled with ducks

leaving room in each painting for surprises and experiments

Alex Waggoner (Savannah College of Art and Design

and presence through place

Help a child to celebrate a wonderful teacher and all the lessons that made sharing the year with them such a joy

He also collects rulers to use and fossils to bemuse and comic strip art to amuse and reasons to excuse (himself from uncomfortable situations)

Kim Ferreira now lives in Portsmouth

or would rather be doing just about anything else we all shop for the same reason: to prepare for what will be needed at home to sustain us