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Jennifer Litchfield has been living and
painting in Maine for the past 10 years. Originally from Australia,
where she pursued a medical career as a general practitioner in
Sydney for 20 years, she moved to the States and later to Maine
after meeting and marrying her American husband, Peter Felsenthal,
with whom she lives on Barters Island.
Art has always been one of her great loves and she took the opportunity
of her new life to develop her passion for painting, drawing and
color. Her two principal working media are oil paint which she loves
for its sensuous qualities and endless possibilities, and pastel,
appealing for its direct application and brilliant color. Her subject
matter includes the landscape of New England, still life and portraits.
She describes her style as bold and colorful, a mix of realism and
impressionism. Smaller landscapes are painted en plein air and the
larger works are painted in the studio using plein air sketches
and digital photographic references.
After Moving to Maine in 1996, Litchfield began her art education
and continues to take many classes and workshops. She particularly
acknowledges Kathleen Galligan, Elizabeth Knox and Ted Julian
Arnold, her teachers over the last 9 years. She also attends workshops
each year and has studied with James Sulkowski, Albert Handell,
Louise Anita West, Susan Olgivie and Terry Ludwig. Her work has
been accepted in many juried shows and she won best of show in
the Pastel Painters of Maine International juried show 2004.
She is a member and past president of the artist's cooperative
and non profit, Saltwater Artists, at Pemaquid Point, Maine. She
is a member of the Pastel painting society of Cape Cod, The Boothbay
Region Art Foundation, The Maine Art Gallery and a signature member
of the Pastel Painters of Maine.
Shows and exhibitions:
1. The Lincoln County Arts Festival Art Show, August 2001, and
2003
2. Pastel perspectives’ Maine Art Gallery Wiscasset, May-June
2002.
3. Maine Art Gallery Juried Show, June 2002,
4. Maine Art Gallery Juried shows June 2003, 2004, 2005.
5. Maine Art Gallery members show 2002, 2003 and 2004
6. Pastel Painters of Maine national juried show, Sept. 2002,
7. Pastel Painters of Maine national juried show, May 2003
8. Pastel Painters of Maine International juried show May 2004,
Best of Show award.
9. Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Juried shows 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006
10. Round Top Center for the Arts Members Shows 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, and 2005
11. Pastel Painters of Maine members show, Dec. 2003. Honorable
mention award.
12. PPOM Members shows 2004 and 2005
13. Pastel Society of Cape Cod National juried show 2004 and
2005
14. Pastel Painters of Maine International juried show 2005.
15. Single person show The Entrance Gallery Miles Memorial Hospital,
Damariscotta Maine
16. Group Show –The Brush and Easel Studio Gallery Newcastle
Maine March- April 2006
17. Pastel Painters of Maine International juried show 2006 and
2007
18. Maine Art Gallery juried show 2006.
19. Two woman show 'A Coastal Journey' with Belva Ann Prycl,
Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset Maine, May 2007.
Her work is represented by the Saltwater Artist's Gallery at
Pemaquid Point, Maine and the Hunter Gallery of Fine Art in Grafton,
Vermont.
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