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Chapter Two is proud to show the work of exceptional, locally connected artists and artisans creating original work of the highest caliber in a variety of media. Visit the gallery to savor our current selection of fine art and craft, or contact us for further information about available work by a particular gallery contributor.
Lou Charlett - Turned Wood
New Gloucester, ME artist Louis Charlett designed and built hand crafted furniture for more than 30 years. More recently, he has focused on producing lamps, turned bowls, and trays. With a distinctive style his work pays homage to classic design and contemporary influences. Each of Lou's woodwork pieces is a unique creation that highlights the natural elegance and beauty of wood, combining functionality and glamour in a stunning work of art
Martha Chessie - Handwoven Baskets
Roque Bluffs and Shapleigh, ME, artist Martha Chessie creates incomparable hand woven baskets that capture the essence of Maine. Her intricate pieces are both beautiful, functional and collectable. From berry picking baskets to market baskets, picnic baskets to Adirondack pack baskets, Martha's work is intricate, solid and elegant. Many of here pieces incorporate color, carefully chosen embellishments, adornments and whimsical elements, that give them individual character that is uniquely Martha!
Lee Cummings - Pottery
Portland, ME potter Lee Cummings has over 50 years of experience creating with clay, as a production potter and a college level pottery instructor. Whether working with sinuous coils, soft slabs or balls of clay, Lee sculpts pieces that are both utilitarian and beautiful.
Lisa Holt - Pebble and Seaglass Collage
Camden, ME, artist Lisa Holt has been creating whimsical collages using beach stones, pebbles, seaglass, and shells for more than 20 years. Often found wondering Maine's beaches for inspiration, the now retired elementary school teacher has an exceptional eye for shape, detail and design. Lisa's creations achieve a level of sophistication and nuance that set them apart.
Lucille Holt Sottery --
Steuben and Cape Elizabeth, ME, artist Lucille Holt Sottery loves the beauty and peacefulness of Maine after growing up in the hustle and bustle of New York. She focused on water colors early in her art career, but about six years ago transitioned to acrylics for the control and texture the medium offers. Her work is inspired by her surroundings and she explores her world with curiosity and passion. Interpreting what she sees with an unparalleled depth of detail and vibrancy of color, she captures life in the world around her. The results are perceptive views of life and nature that inspire, calm and warm the soul
Sember Lockwood -- Painting
Camden, ME, artist Sember Lockwood is a self taught artist who approaches her work with curiosity, passion and spirituality. She explores and interprets nature and her environment through a strong sense of color, movement and design. She believes that understanding beauty is a sensory experience — visual, tactile and whole-body encompassing, and she incorporates this philosophy into each piece of her work. Using bits of nature and a variety of media, forms and styles, whatever Sember touches becomes a unique work of art.
Paul Markowitz - Mobiles
Montpelier, VT, artist Paul Markowitz is an emerging kinetic artist who has focused on balance movement, line and color since his retirement from full-time work in 2019. His art is inspired by Alexander Calder, to whom Paul offers enormous gratitude for brining the art form to the forefront. Paul's mobiles are created from aluminum and wire and sometimes incorporate other media such as seaglass, small stones and shells. He tries to incorporate whimsy into his work, and many of his pieces are playful, amusing flights of fancy. His artistic goal is to bring a smile to the people who see his art.
Lyn Mayewski - Silver Jewelry, Needle Felting
Brooklin, ME, artist Lyn Mayewski has studied silverware at a variety of art centers and has honed her skills working with exceptional teachers at workshops across the country. She uses a variety of techniques including reticulation, fusing, forging, casting, precious metal clay, enameling and fabricating to create sophisticated pieces that are elegant and playful. Recently she has become fascinated with needle felting, and creates detailed sculptural pieces inspired by the flora and fauna of Maine.
Dan Miller - Woodblock Prints and Woodblocks
Corea, ME (and Christiana, PA) artist Dan Miller has taught at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts since 1964. Although gifted in a variety of media, Dan considers himself to be primarily a printmaker. He is renowned for his Corea inspired works: seascapes, landscapes, birds, insects and animals. He also creates detailed portraits of writers, philosophers, artists and musicians, focusing on people who have interesting faces with exceptional character. Using soft pine, he carves his blocks using a straight-edged razor blade. After completing a print run, he used to use his blocks as firewood, but then came to see them as original works of art that are available for sale. This summer, he will celebrate his 96th birthday.
Jaye Orgera - Hand Knit Sweaters and Wearables; Acrylic Paintings.
Steuben, ME, artist Jaye Orgera is a knitter extraordinaire. She creates warm, sweaters, capes, stoles and other wearables using exceptional wool she selects for its quality, color and texture. Her designs are contemporary, sophisticated and fun. In addition to knitting, Jaye is a painter and she creates abstract pieces inspired by her gardens and the coast of Maine.
Elizabeth Petersen - EcoPrinting
Scarborough, ME, artist Elizabeth Petersen creates unique scarves, pillowcases, coasters, table runners and more using high quality silk and linen. She creates her sophisticated pieces by eco-printing locally foraged plants, She designs each piece by arranging the plant leaves and fruits on her base material and then transferring the natural plant dyes, colors and images to the base material. Elizabeth's pieces are classy, refined and sophisticated.
Rebecca Poole-Heyne -- Acrylic Paintings
Bucksport, ME, artist Rebecca Poole-Heyne grew up in rural Maine and sought the landscape as a place of peace, refuge and hope. After teaching art in schools on the Blue Hill Peninsula for the past two decades, Becca has returned to the landscape as a theme in her painting. This has opened a door to the remnants of old emotions which are poignant and powerful. Trees, bushes, blossoms, light and water resonate with Becca. She takes photos to capture the spectacular beauty and the ordinary vitality if everyday life in the deep woods. Inter studio, she distills and abstracts her images with small ink drawings and then ut brush to canvas. The woods rescued Becca as a child and now Becca finds they provide solace through light, color and shape as an adult.
Rhonda Snowaert & Roy Gruver - Art Glass
Prospect Harbor, ME, (and Bethlehem, PA) glass artists Rhonda Snowaert and Roy Gruber are partners who celebrate beauty and light in their work. Rhonda creates wall and standing glass panels and sculptures inspired by nature. Her work uses complex patterns and combinations of colors and materials to create intriguing imagery. Roy specializes in kiln-formed glass. He uses color, line and heat to create movement and intricate patterns. Together they also create functional fused glass pieces -- bowls and platters in striking colors. They also have a long history of teaching art glass techniques, most recently at The Corning Museum of Glass and locally through Schoodic Arts for All
Barbara Sturgeon - paper collage and acrylic paintings
Steuben, ME (and Orono, ME) artist Barbara Sturgeon creates her fanciful cut and torn paper collages and acrylic paintings to celebrate Maine. Through landscape and iconic representative cultural images, her work focuses on Downeast living. Subtle or robust, suggestive or graphic, serious or playful, Barbara's art is intended to stir emotions. Whether celebrating the sea, islands, lobster or blueberries, she evokes joy and comfort, communicates a sense of home and community and captures the essence of coastal life. Both simple and complex, Barbara's art acknowledges the dichotomy of people from away, summer people, tourists and life-time Mainers coexisting in peace and harmony
Mike Summerer - Woodturning
Prospect Harbor, ME, artist Mike Summerer, a retired surgeon, is an accomplished woodturner having worked on a lathe for over 30 years. He produces exquisite utilitarian and art pieces and is always experimenting with new designs, techniques and finishes. Mike has held a variety of board positions in the American Association of WoodTurners and offers regular woodturning workshops through Schoodic Arts for All.
Norma Jean Vela - Tethermade Hand Woven Baskets and Bowls
Cherrryfield, ME, artist Norma Vela believes that high quality, well-designed work should be accessible to all. An artist and illustrator who spent 30+ years as a writer in LA, in 2013 Norma Jean hung up her hat and moved Downeast. What started as a craft to share with friends turned into Tethermade. Norma Jean makes her baskets and bowls by hand on the family farm in Cherryfield using responsibly sourced 100% natural cotton cord and thread. As Norma Jean Studio, she also illustrates and deigns a variety of unique home products.
Leonard Woody Verville -Acrylic Painting
Winter Harbor, ME, artist Leonard "Woody" Verville focuses on composition and color to celebrate isolated local spots where rock meets water and sky in dramatic fashion. Born in Concord, NH, Woody graduate from Plymouth State College with a Bachelor of Science in art education and spent 22 years teaching art at middle schools in Maine. In 2014 he retired to be a full-time caretaker for his wife, and in 2022, after a year in isolation mourning, painting and writing, Woody began showing his art, which reflects his love of spectacular outdoor places and his constant search for natural beauty. Inspired by Maine artists such as Marsden Hartley, John Marin and William Zorach, Woody's work has earned plaudits and a following.
Louise Vinueza - Oil Paintings
Corea artist Louise Vinueza began exploring her artistic voice with a half century of her life already lived.That life experience influences her art causing the nostalgic moods and dream-like quality of her paintings. Experiencing a shift from reality to fantasy when she paints, Louise allows herself to be open to the direction a painting goes, without prejudice, and so is often surprised by the end image that she creates. Louise's work is haunting, quirky, mysterious, playful and sometimes humorous, but always personal and intimate.
Marianne Perlak - Polychromes
Corea and Watertown, MA, artist Marianne Perlak, skilled in a variety of media and with an eye to the eclectic, each year creates a body of work that is unique. It is always fabulous, eye catching art that challenges perceptions and demands thought. Marianne’s 2025 “Polychromes” expand on last year's work, incorporating photos that build on the complexity and subtlety of her art. They are luminously, enthusiastic and celebrate vibrancy with abandon. Seemingly simple, they are, in fact, a flush of color, texture and image meticulous designed with carefully considered layouts, intricate details and painstaking marks. They are stand alone paintings that can also work in groups of 2, 3 4 or more both horizontally and vertically.
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