Harvest Gold Summer Opening!

Harvest Gold Gallery, on route 5 in Center Lovell, Maine, has received Yankee Magazine’s Editors Choice award for “Best Gallery” for 2016!  The Editors Choice Awards are published in Yankee’s Best of New England edition. The publication is a tour guide to some of the best places to see while visiting New England.

Harvest Gold Gallery is busy getting ready for it’s nineteenth year here in Lovell, Maine.  The gallery exhibits the work of over 150 American artists, along with the Harvest Gold Jewelry collection created by owners Lynda Rasco and Bill Rudd. Lynda and Bill specialize in different styles of goldsmithing, and the union of these styles makes the jewelry shown in Harvest Gold elegant and contemporary. Their unique jewelry has been sold in galleries and jewelry stores across the globe for over 30 years.

“It is such an honor to be recognized by Yankee Magazine and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate this award along with the 150 other American artists and craftsmen who help make up Harvest Gold Gallery,” says gallery owner and jewelry designer Lynda Rudd.

The 2016 exhibit features new artists and new works.  The collection features internationally awarded artists, nationally awarded sculptors, museum quality glasswork, and many more fine art gifts. Come see some of Gwen Nagel’s pastels of local landscapes, Gene Whitney’s wonderfully carved fish, or Jean Swan Gordan’s brilliantly bright floral watercolor bouquets!

"The Life of a Flower" by Jean Swan Gordon 

Outside of the gallery are beautifully arranged sculpture gardens, which compliment a breathtaking view of Kezar Lake and the White Mountains. The ever-blooming gardens are a sight in themselves to stop by for. Indoors, the art and craftwork fill seven rooms to provide for you a tranquil adventure to undertake one fine summer day. 

Harvest Gold is open daily and is located just past the Center Lovell Market at 1082 Main Street. For further information about the Gallery, please contact us at (207) 925-6502 or check out our website at www.harvestgoldgallery.com.

Summer in Maine, artist spotlight- Diane Scott

The summer season has begun here at Harvest Gold, and the crowds have started visiting the gallery and our beautiful views. To start off the summer blogging on the right foot, we'd like to spotlight an artist who expertly captures the beauty of New England seasons - the lovely painter, Diane Scott!

Diane is a Canadian traveler who has spent a great deal of time in New England and America painting the sights. She practices plein air (outdoor) painting and is no stranger to the annual plein air painting event we host every summer. Diane's education includes Ecole Louis Riel, St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada RN from St. Boniface Hospital Three Schools of Art in Toronto, Canada, Bachelor Fine Arts from Herts College of Art and Design in St. Albans, England (now Hertfordshire University), and her list of accolades is extensive. 

Our favorite things about Diane's paintings are the way she captures the natural lighting that is so important to creating an atmosphere in the painting. Her brushstrokes remind us of impressionists, the masters of capturing light. We love Diane's ability to capture the simplistic beauty of New England. So much of being a New Englander is appreciating the beauty of the everyday around us!

  
Stop by the gallery to see more of Diane's work, or visit her website: http://dianescottartist.com/. Remember keep in touch with us to hear about upcoming summer events, including the plein air event! 

No Snow and Little Rings

Not much snow up here this winter has given us time to make a bunch of staking rings!

We are having so much fun designing new combinations!

This one is so patriotic!

Ovals in Maine Amethyst and Maine green Tourmaline.

Diamond in a bezel on a yellow gold band.

Rounds in patriotic colors!

Rounds in diamonds and Maine Green tourmaline.

Maine Aquamarine to round out the collection!

Stop by when you are passing through beautiful downtown Center Lovell, overlooking Kezar Lake and the White Mountains of western Maine.

Happy Anniversary, Harvest Gold Gallery!

This Christmas Eve marks our 19th anniversary in the old Severence Real Estate building. On Bill and Lynda's 15th wedding anniversary they moved their tools and opened a new workshop and gallery space here in Center Lovell.

Bill & Lynda at their Annual Open House this November

Here, they set to work as two of Santa's Elves, making the beautiful jewelry we have all grown to know and love.

Pinkham Notch: Maine Tourmaline and
Yellow Gold Ring by Lynda.

One of Bill's original Presidential Rage flexible
White and Rose Gold Bracelets.

As their jewelry collections grew, so did the quantity of artwork on the walls of the gallery. Today we feature more than 200 American artists. As the Holiday Season continues, we hope you stop by to celebrate 19 years with us! We'd love to share our creations with you. 

Harvest Gold Gallery: located on Route 5 in Center Lovell, Maine.

Pick 5 Gold Earrings

 I picked 5 earring designs that are classic and up to date and easy to wear for this blog post.

This new design was inspired, as most are, by my customer who wanted the dragonflies to be dancing in pairs.  How lovely is that!

 Bill has really figured out the self locking earring.  With his work hardened spring gold design these are styles are great for people don't want to fuss with earnuts but want security.

 Mirrored 3/4 wavey channel posts compliment her cheek bones and her smile.

 Classic and timeless.  What else is there to say?

 New for the season Rose Gold!  Love these moon and star twinkling in rose gold.

Stop by when you are in beautiful downtown Center Lovell over looking Kezar Lake and the White Mountains and always on the web!

Sterling and Leather

As the fall colors are fading we are bringing back some of the summer sun with our nature-inspired sterling silver and leather pieces! We were lucky to have the lovely Arianna modeling for us. 

Sterling Silver Loon and Island on Kezar Lake Earrings
(Click caption to view on our website!)

Sterling Silver Quiet Night Leather Cuff

Sterling Silver Dragonfly Leather Cuff

These whimsical leather cuffs remind us of late summer and calm canoe rides on the lake at dusk with the dragonflies whizzing and the moon rising over the mountains and trees.

This beautiful necklace is a delicate yet bold statement.  

Sterling Silver Feathered Flair Necklace

We can almost feel the ocean breeze after looking at this adorable whale cut out! 

Whale Pendant in Sterling Silver on a Leather Chain
(Click caption to view on our website!)

Sterling Silver Whale Earrings

Keeping summer in our minds as we wait for the first winter snowfall, stop by and join us any day of the week! We are on Route 5 in the White Mountains overlooking Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine.

80th Birthday Present

I was honored to be included in a very special 80th birthday present.  Can you guess which one I made?!  Love my job!