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11 Leeman Hill Rd |
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New Harbor, Me 04554 |
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207-595-0756 cell 207-956-9860
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Our gallery is located in the beautiful quaint fishing village of New Harbor, Maine. We are located on the south side of the harbor across from the public landing. |
The painting on our sign is 'Harbor Island' and can be found on our Paintings page where you can find many more beautiful paintings of the Maine seacoast and several winter scenes of Maine as well. |
Our large stained glass sign cannot be missed! With all the kids grown, we decided our home was big enough to change 2 of our downstairs rooms into a gallery. We hope that you can visit us and feel 'right at home'. |
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Mark painting his mural "Northeasterly". This mural of beautiful Monhegan Island, Maine can be seen on our murals page. No painting too large for this mural artist! |
Beautiful Muscongus bay is behind the Chesebro's. Just a walk from our house, Monhegan Island can be seen from the coastal shoreline along with many of the other islands in Muscongus Bay...a paradise for this Maine artist! |
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Summary of Mark's Background My involvement in fine arts started when I was 12 years old...with an older sister gone all the time, a working mother and father, and a frequently empty house. I started putting still-life's together and painting alone in our basement. My mother found a professional artist with attachments to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, (he was doing residencies and teaching occasional courses). I took privately from Jean Tonoff for 2 years. I ended up getting into Boston University where I was a literature major in the college of liberal Arts. I was painting constantly with personal expression throughout my four years there. I took Art as my minor, taking as many Art courses, Art related courses, practical and Art History related as I could squeeze in. Upon graduation I was focused exclusively on my artwork, (I had begun selling my work by then). I was accepted. and enrolled in Print Making, Drawing classes, and Painting Classes at the University of Rhode Island. I finished my courses at the University of Rhode Island and applied to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. in a Masters Program called Communication Design and I was accepted. I enrolled and finished a semester, but found commercial art, New York City, and working at MacMillan Publishing Co. (where I was employed in the Art Department) was all less than what I desired out of life, school, or my art. I traveled for about 1 year to the West Coast and back and sold my art along the way in shows, and privately. I then decided to stay for an entire winter in the Catskill Mountains, alone, renting a home on the top of the mountains with a commanding view of the Hudson Valley. I painted and sold my work locally as my sole income for that winter season. I continued to paint a lot after returning to Rhode Island, doing larger paintings, (murals on interior walls. 4-5 of them, primarily in places of business) and selling in Summer Art Shows, etc. During this time I was always painting, developing my own focus and intent with respect to my interpretation of the world around me. I lean toward realism. The inexhaustible world of beauty around me has been my model. For the last 15 years it has been exclusively Maine's stark, raw materials of its beauty that has stimulated my passion for developing long lasting works of this genre. I began a new direction for the development of myself as an artist twelve years ago, and am currently pursuing it avidly. I have been developing a collection of mural sized acrylic paintings of uniquely portrayed scenes of Maine. I say unique because of their perspective. For instance, my last 2 large mural sized paintings were painted as though the painter and the viewer were standing on water experiencing a contemplative scene of a Maine island: "Thief Island" 3.5'x7' in Muscongus Bay and Monhegan Islands as seen from the east/ocean side in this painting called "Northeasterly" 5'x8'. This size and scope feels very natural and exciting to me. I am always so elated to finally be done with one large piece, but waste no time at all prepping a new piece of Belgian linen for my next painting: I usually have already decided on the next composition before I finish my current work. (My first mural sized painting, "Pebble Beach", a 4'x8' acrylic, was purchased by MBNA. I recently finished a large oil mural called "Lowtide", a stone's throw from the public landing in New Harbor. This mural painting has a nostalgic feeling now that the fish house in the painting has been completely renovated. This can be seen in detail on our murals page. My goal is to be able to share be able to share the incredible aspects of God's Nature through my art. |
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Artist Mark Chesebro Accepted by Corporate Canvas
Article in the local Lincoln County News Prints available on canvas or Epson Ultra Presentation Paper with award winning Epson Archival Ink! |
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Mark Chesebro: Artist with a large vision by: Kay List Article in the Lincoln County News
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