| Artist Info |
| Name:
Jim
Kinnealey |
| Town
of residence: Hope,
Maine |
Brief
Bio:
I am a painter w/ a BFA from KCAI,KC,MO
1975. I live in Hope, ME and together with my wife Cynthia
Hyde, who is also a painter, keep together a small farm.
My work is inspired and driven by the natural world.
It was greatly influenced by a year of study and painting
in Japan.
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| Description of Art Work |
The
work I made for the Atlantic Challenge art auction is
titled " Low Tide ". The materials are concrete
and ceramic shards. This piece, for me, symbolizes the
great tradition of Maine seafaring.
On Sundays, twenty six years ago, when I first moved
to Rockland, I would pull on my tall boots and at low
tide explore behind Knight Marine, EL Spear, and the
buildings that are now Atlantic Challenge. This part
of Rockland harbor is where I started to collect broken
pieces of pottery. Each low tide the ocean would reveal
more history and treasure. My imagination told me that
broken dishes and porcelan trade were tossed overboard
into into the harbor as sailing ships returned from
foreign ports. Perhaps though early on the ocean was
used as a convenient dump by Rockland residents. But
either story points to the fact that Maine was rich
with ship building and rich with trade and treasure
from all around the world in the nineteenth century.
If you look closely at this piece you will see porcelan
from China, a Japanese doll, English and European made
china and a small Buddha. There is also a shard from
an early pottery jug and some American spongeware. The
concrete structure is like layers of sand.
Dimensions: 12" x
12" x 12" on pedestal 42" |
| Medium
Used: Concrete
& ceramic shards |
| Title:
"Low
Tide" |
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