Winter Birches by Jane Dahmen (2 panels) 72×60″ Acrylic

Jane Dahmen. A Maine artist with such wonderful paintings! Jane paints the world in which she lives. The beautiful trees in Maine are one of her subjects. They are fabulous paintings which makes you feel as if you are out in the woods with an incredible view! The painting above is actually two panels together measure 72×60″!

Cherries, Plums and Orchid by Jane Dahmen 30×36″ Acrylic

What fun! I love the composition of this painting. How the blooms are close to the viewer’s eye. This is a  bright and happy painting. Just beautiful! This painting will brighten up a dreary day for sure!

Read a blip about Jane, from her website:

My most recent landscape paintings are the result of my wanderings around the mid coast area of Maine for the past ten years. Walking in the woods on the mainland, on islands, and along the Damariscotta River near my home, I see paintings everywhere.  The complexity of the woods is challenging.

The large scale format of many of my landscapes helps to create a space into which the viewer can enter.  My ideas begin in the natural world, but once a work is underway, the paint itself on the flat surface takes on a life of its own. Two dimensional aspects interest me and the views I choose have patterns that bring attention to the surface of the painting. At the same time,  I am creating a spacial environment, not necessarily of a particular place but of my reverence of a particular place.  In fact, I am as interested in painting what’s out there as what’s in here, and in communicating my deep attraction to this mid coast Maine landscape where I live.

The still life paintings are inspired by my home surroundings.  As in the landscapes, two-dimensional aspects interest me as much as the subject.  I often favor a top down view in setting up my still lifes because it flattens the depth of the paintings and allows for an  arrangement of items spread out across the picture plane.  Space extends in every direction, and the eye moves from object to object, as opposed to a one or two-point perspective where the eye is drawn to a vanishing point somewhere within the scene. Read more HERE.

Images via JaneDahmen.com, used with permission…

Images are not for reproduction, they are property of the artist.

Catch you back here tomorrow!