Join us Friday, April 3 for a reception welcoming artist Jon Luoma. 

Jon Luoma has lived in Maine since 1975.  He has a B.A. in studio art and has studied traditional Chinese painting in Sichuan, China.   He works at a painting studio in Gardiner.

Jon has been an illustrator/artist for the Maine Times and for Maine and New England environmental organizations, and he has exhibited paintings in midcoast and central Maine galleries.  He is an enthusiastic hiker, canoeist, and cross-country skier, and visits northern and downeast Maine frequently, which often provide subject matter for paintings.  Many of his landscape watercolors combine Western and Chinese techniques, approaches, and materials.

He exhibits paintings at the Pemaquid Art Gallery at Lighthouse Park in South Bristol, late May(through mid-October.

Two of his paintings of Baxter State Park are reproduced in Art of Katahdin by David Little (Downeast Books, 2013).  His original illustrations for a limited letterpress edition of Thoreau’s The Maine Woods are in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art.