Harvest
Gold Gallery Welcomes Summer with New Artists, Website and Open House
With the 2014 summer season also comes new growth at Harvest Gold
Gallery, both inside and outside, including an updated website, several new
staff members, stone sculptures blooming in the picturesque perennial garden
overlooking Kezar Lake and several new artists’ work budding in the already
diverse and cultivated gallery. Harvest Gold’s seven-room gallery features gold
and silver jewelry made on premises as well as over 200 American artists’ works
of fine arts and crafts.
Several new artists’ work will be at
Harvest Gold Gallery this season. Joe Gray of
Graystone Masonry in Gilford, New Hampshire has been a custom stoneworker for
over twenty years and has ventured into sculpting outdoor pieces such as bald
eagle benches, Native American face profiles and life-sized embracing figures.
Gordon R. Merrick of Symmetry in Wood utilizes a veneer called Amboyna from
Vietnam in his manufacture of exquisite clocks and furniture. Rebecca Klemontovich of New York City and
Bartlett, New Hampshire is an abstract oil painter of energy infused small to
large-scale works. New acrylic artwork at Harvest Gold
Gallery includes Melissa Prince’s Maine woodland birds and paintings of local
flavor by returning artist Sandy Bell who also paints in oil, as does Dean
McCrillis of Portland whose subjects focus on Maine outdoor living. Also new to
the gallery are Nancy Trider of Leeds, Maine’s New England landscapes in
watercolor, as well as her still life oils. Tennessean Carol Dashnall LeBarron
is a textile artist whose dyed wool and jacquard pieces center on the beauty of
the natural environment. Finally, to celebrate the beginning of the summer
season, it is a privilege to share the return of the still life watercolor
paintings of beloved late Jean Swan Gordon who was a passionate gardener and
accomplished artist.
Harvest Gold Gallery’s new and
improved website is scheduled to be online early this summer with a modern
user-friendly design for online shopping. Be sure and mark your calendar now to
attend the Gallery’s long-standing Artist Reception and Open House on Friday,
July 11. This annual gathering is a
chance for new and old friends to meet our staff, the artists, and enjoy artwork
both inside and outside the gallery.
Harvest Gold
Gallery is located at 1082 Main Street, Route 5, Center Lovell, Maine 04016.
Owners and jewelers Lynda Rasco and Bill Rudd have been designing and making
jewelry for 30 years, and offering American artists’ and fine crafters’ work at
their gallery since 1997. The gallery is open daily. For more information please call (207)
925-6502 or visit www.harvestgoldgallery.com.
Accomplished artist from New York, Melissa Harris, is now showing work at Arabica Coffee Shop in Portland, Maine. Her new work is a series of watercolors painted while she was in Freeport, Maine. Melissa earned a BFA degree in Painting from Syracuse University, an MFA in painting from Queens College, and in addition spent several years painting in Paris with a Fulbright grant. She describes her art making process as a spiritual journey and says "painting is my medicine…Through these decades of a sometimes erratic and ever-evolving life, painting had been the one constant. Relationships and homes have come and gone, but my paint box is always with me…. A connection to Mother Earth fuels my being and inspires [my] imagery". 
