Leecia Price

Artist Statement

Maine's endless forests, rocky shores, and ubiquitous water bodies are my most treasured places and inspiration.

My paintings start with a subject's perceived value, beauty, grace or rhythms. Imagination, abstraction, and some degree of reality guide me in an explorative journey. Along the way I add interesting unknowns, gestural marks, and evidence of my interactions with the materials to distill a personal translation.

I present the viewer with an image they may connect with, and translate into their own personal story; ideally an interesting and unique aesthetic experience.

Biography

A full time, professional artist Leecia Price (b. 1962) is known for her atmospheric landscapes of the Maine coast. She has painted for over 14 years and exhibited in Maine and Florida.

While working in conservation as a naturalist, graphic design and illustration lead her to painting. She credits her study of plant and bird identification with teaching her to see rather than just look. Even so, her recent work relies as much on imagination as observation. Living aboard and traveling on a sailboat for several years sealed her lifelong affinity for water and the sea, a reoccurring theme in her work.

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Continuing studies with accomplished artists including: Kim Bernard, mentoring 2018; Colin Page, workshops 2015, 2016, 2017 (monitor/participant); Kerstin Engman, ongoing classes/critiques, oil/encaustic 2014 - 2017; Kendra Denny, encaustic workshop 2016; Anne Blair Brown, workshop, 2016 (monitor/ participant); Catherine Gill, workshop, 2014 (monitor/participant); Elayne Dubin, ongoing classes 2006 - 2009.

B.S. Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, University of Florida

Galleries

Small Wonder Gallery

1 Public Landing, Camden, Maine

Art Space Gallery

405 Main Street, Rockland, Maine

Shows and Exhibitions

Solo:

Fellowship Hall Gallery, July/August 2018, UU Brunswick, Maine

Cafe Gallery, May 2015, Good Tern Cooperative, Rockland, Maine

Atrium Gallery, Summer 2012, Unitarian Fellowship of Gainesville, Florida

Group:

Archipelago Gallery, Featured artists, October 2019 - May 2020, Rockland, Maine

Archipelago Gallery, Featured artists, April 2019 - July 2019, Rockland, Maine

River Arts, ‘Storm’, juror John David O’Shaughnessy, March 2020, Damariscotta Maine

River Arts, juror Winslow Myers, February 2020, Damariscotta Maine

Art Space Gallery, Four person show, July 2019, Rockland, Maine

Art Space Gallery, Four person show, September 2018, Rockland, Maine

'Close to Nature', Women Artists of Midcoast Maine, September - November 2018, Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Gallery, Rockland, Maine

'Women Painting Women', Women Artists of Midcoast Maine, March 2018, Belfast Library, Belfast, Maine

'Winter Members' Showcase', Harlow Gallery, January - March 2018, Hallowell, Maine

‘Home’, Women Painters of Midcoast Maine, Septembe...