This is the first of three exhibits The University of New England will have in 2015 in conjunction with the Maine Photo Project
A Gateless Garden: With Quotes by Maine Women Writers – a photo/writers exhibit at UNE
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We want to give Maine’s libraries and elementary schools a copy of Clipper’s ABC’s in English, French, Spanish and Japanese. We live in a global community; the earlier children are exposed to different languages, like Japanese, the more perspective they will have. We have permission from the publisher, writer and artist to reprint and distribute the book to all Maine’s elementary schools and libraries.
The Solon Center for Research and Publishing is a 501(c)3- non-profit organization established to encourage the growth of Maine’s communities through educational, literary, scientific and artistic means.
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Landscapes by artist Ramona du Houx
Landscapes
Please click on the image to see a larger version, thanks.
Painting with the camera can create the sense of being personally close to an object through colors, textures, memories, and the seasons. With a landscape that’s exemplified because of their never-ending vastness that somehow surrounds us in an embrace. For me landscapes inspire contemplation, and patience. That and the sensation of being at home, welcomed by nature’s warmth.
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- Discovery
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- Summer Fun
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- Beach
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- Summer Stroll
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- Autum
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- Flagstaff Dream
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- Western Mts.
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- Eastern Dream
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- Between Worlds
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- Purple Mt. Majesty
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- View
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- Stone Light
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- The Loaf
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- River Reflect
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- Kennebec Spring
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- African Maine
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- Dream View Mt.
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- Dream Escape
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- Roadside
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- Spring Promise
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- Merlin’s Forest
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- Farm lift off
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- Barns Within
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- Thanksgiving
Ramona du Houx exhibit – Berry’s
From the Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE — The inside gallery at Berry’s, 153 Main St., features the artwork of Ramona du Houx.
Du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking mystery and a sense of wonder. Many find them nostalgic and some mystical. She is currently represented by Gallery Storks of Tokyo, Japan and is also a member of the Maine Artist Collaborative where she exhibits regularly at the Constellation Gallery in Portland.
Nature Reveals herself in Ramona du Houx’s abstract lightgraphs
I try to bring the beauty, magic and mystery of nature to viewers by amplifying nature’s essence.
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- Oak Maine
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- X-Ray
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- Spirit Dance
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- Treeheart
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- Snow Dance
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- Simply Complex
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- Lilly Dance
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- Field Grass
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- Folding Wheat
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- Golden Magnolia
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- Holly
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- Life
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- Fall
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- Enchanted Forest
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- Crystal Harmonics
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- Crystal Cave
TO VIEW THE ART: Please click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the work.
There are no boundaries in nature, with everyone and everything interconnected. Where a river stops cannot be defined, nor can the end of the sky. In my “lightgraphs” no objects have clearly defined borders as they merge their core essences together creating visual abstracts of light.
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- Climb
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- Candycanes
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- Breathe
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- Branches
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- Being
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- Bamboo
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- Saturn Center
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- Journey
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- Essence
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- Fire and Water
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- Spring Torch Lift
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- Lift -off
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- Crown
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- Maze DNA
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- Eathbound Angels
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- Whisper Song
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- Grace
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- Breath
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- Lips
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- Balance
In some cases the images resemble microscopic images, as if the core elements of what is being photographed has emerged to be recorded. It’s my hope that with these elements revealed the viewer has an opportunity to discover something about the natural world representational photographs cannot convey as nature reveals herself.
I’m represented by Gallery Storks in Tokyo, Japan and Gallery Insights of Solon, Maine. And a member of the Maine Artist Collective which exhibits regularly.
Constellation Gallery is closing but MAC continues and is having a fire sale- NOW
The 6 x 8 gallery panels for sale for only $25- or best offer at the Constellation Gallery
By Ramona du Houx
The Constellation Gallery’s, home of the Maine Artist Collective (MAC), recently held its most successful call for art with the Miniature exhibit, which just ended on January 29th. Five artists sold work and hundreds viewed the show over a two-month period.
But during the month of December the owners of the building hosting the Constellation Gallery announced that the gallery space was under contract to be leased to another tenant. While the Constellation Gallery is closing MAC will continue.
“Right now we are having a fire sale. Everything has to go for us to be moved out on time,” said David Marshall, MAC’s President and Portland City Councilor. Continue reading
Du houx show at Berry’s continues until February
Dream Sail
From an article in Union of Maine Visual Artists Magazine:
The inside gallery at Berry’s, 153 Main St, downtown Waterville, features the artwork of Ramona du Houx. Due to popular demand the show, which started in December, continues throughout January.
Ramona du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking mystery and a sense of wonder. Some find them nostalgic and some mystical. Many have said the images have a healing nature. See more at http://www.photographybyramonaduhoux.com.
Ramona is currently represented by Gallery Storks of Tokyo, Japan and is also a member of the Maine Artist Collaborative and the Harlow Gallery. She currently has another exhibit until the end of the month at the Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress Street, in Portland, Maine.
“For me art reflects where we live in our communities, as well as where an artist is in their heart, mind and soul,” said Ramona. “In 1979 I began to paint with my camera to depict the interconnectedness of nature. I took the initial results to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where they recorded them long ago. The continuing results have been unpredictable, intriguing, and thought provoking.” Continue reading
The Zen peace of Maine’s Western Mountains depicted in Ramona du Houx’s images
Western Mts.
If you haven’t been to Central Maine, you are missing out on some of the most majestic and peaceful mountains anywhere. They remind me of the mythologies about giant dragons sleeping in fields thus transforming them into hills and mountain ranges. Their backs form the mountains. The long tails of these majestic beasts stretch throughout Maine up into Canada. They are, of course, part of the Appalachian Trail system. As their bodies sleep in mountain ranges, their spirits roam the night sky in constellations. Continue reading
An Independence Day story of Ramona du Houx’s Summer Stroll and how water became fire
Summer Stroll
Portland, Maine is just a marvelous city to walk around in, with miles of paths for bikes, walkers, runners. With the ocean lapping against the shore, parks, and trees still reaching higher than some buildings nature has been embraced and identified as a part of what makes this small city great. Most of the architecture dates back to the 1800’s and there is even an observatory on Monjoy Hill that was built by merchants to literally watch their “ships come in” –to port. It’s the only one of its kind left in the Americas.
I’d come to town for the Forth of July and was geared up to take, of course, the fireworks. But I was looking for something different, something to define the sense of liberty all around me. I decided to take a stroll on the Eastern Promenade. . Smiles abounded, kids played hide and seek around bushes and trees, elderly couples put out their chairs next to lovers camped out on blankets, all choosing perfect locations for them to view the firework display. Continue reading
Unpublished LIFE images by Gordon Parks are powerful look into America
As the first black man hired full-time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks wanted to find and photograph all 11 of his classmates from grade school as a way of measuring the impact of school segregation. The photo essay he created was never published. Now it is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the exhibition, “Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott,” beginning Jan. 17.
Gordon Parks hadn’t been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist. Growing up as the youngest of 15 children, Parks attended the Plaza School, an all-black grade school in the heavily segregated town. The images he took reflect white society at the time. They humanize race relations. They show us we are equal, that color doesn’t make the difference, character does.
If you can get a hold of the movie A Raisin in the Sun, with Sydney Poitier for a portrait of a black family during the same time period Parks took the Life images. It’s well worth the time seeing it. Continue reading
Ramona du Houx’s December exhibit at Berry’s in Maine continues until February from popular demand
Kennebec Spring
Beach Dream
Eathbound Angels
by Morgan Rogers. First published in the Magazine Maine Insights
The inside gallery at Berry’s, 153 Main St, downtown Waterville, features the artwork, Ramona du Houx. Due to popular demand the show, which started in December continues throughout January.Ramona du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking mystery and a sense of wonder. Some find them nostalgic and some mystical. Many have said the images have a healing nature. See more at http://www.photographybyramonaduhoux.com.
Ramona is currently represented by Gallery Storks of Tokyo, Japan and is also a member of the Maine Artist Collaborative and the Harlow Gallery. She currently has another exhibit until the end of the month at the Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress Street, in Portland, Maine.
“For me art reflects where we live in our communities, as well as where an artist is in their heart, mind and soul,” said Ramona. “In 1979 I began to paint with my camera to depict the interconnectedness of nature. I took the initial results to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where they recorded them long ago. The continuing results have been unpredictable, intriguing, and thought provoking.”
The photographic watercolor technique is always a challenge.
“I never know exactly what the results will be, that’s the exciting part of the creation,” said du Houx. “I believe every photograph has an audience, someone the work will speak to personally.” Continue reading
“Sunflower Rays” story of life by Ramona du Houx has a story
Sunflower Rays
Every image has story of their own, a life of their own. I love sunflowers, so much I planted last years garden with them firmly in my thoughts. Of course Van Gough’s sunflowers revolve in my mind, along with the gardens Monet planted, cared for, and painted. And then there are my Chickadee’s whom, somehow make it through Maine winters, as well as the honey bees who need more safe havens to pollinate. To ease their plight, and satisfy my passion, I planted dozens of sunflowers. It turned out to be a wonderful year for their growth, and as they began to blossom I waited for the right time to dance with my camera amongst them. Alas, that time never came. I broke my wrist instead. There have been so many times, in my life, I have tried to “set” up photos only to have something else occur. It wasn’t a bad thing as it gave me time to think, and work on images already taken. Continue reading
Photographic art by Ramona du Houx 