a celebration of artists in Gardiner, Maine
May 15, 2026 Artists
Learn more about our local artists displaying in Downtown Historic Gardiner this spring at ARTWALK GARDINER!
Donald Patten
Oil paintings, graphite pencil drawings, waterproof stickers, and ceramics
Donald Patten is an artist and cartoonist from Belfast, Maine. He creates oil paintings, illustrations, ceramics and graphic novels. His art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Maine.
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olipeachykeen
Embroidery art, hand sewn dolls, art prints, and stickers
olipeachykeen creates embroidered wall hangings using a base of felt with embroidery floss, beads and pearls. olipeachykeen also makes a variety of hand sewn dolls, felt bookmarks, stickers and art prints illustrated with Procreate.
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KBK Ceramics
Pottery / ceramics
Kalee Beckim is a ceramic artist from Augusta, Maine. She makes handmade ceramics for decorative and functional pieces. She is inspired by pop culture, mid-century furniture and decoration, contemporary art, and fellow modern artists.
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CC's Photography
Photography on canvas, metal, acrylic and under glass
Christine Caron captures images that create a feeling from within. Christine finds fulfillment in photography if the viewers are moved in the same way.
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Just Playing With Glass
Fused and found glass
Just Playing With Glass is Amy’s creative outlet and space for continuous learning and experimenting with glass. Pieces may start from sheet glass or are found glass transformed into something new.
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Plantladypaints
Embroidered original paintings, gouache, watercolor, zines
Plantladypaint’s whimsical style connects the audience to their inner joy. Illustrating birds, bugs, castles, sleeping fairies, and colorful landscapes to inspire others to look for the fantastical in what may seem mundane.
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D. L. Duda
Oil, watercolor, pencil
As an artist and writer, D.L. Duda tells stories using color and words. As a life-long Mainer, D.L. Duda's connection to the forests, fields, soil, and sea of this state runs deep through generations upon generations of other Mainers who farmed and fished here.
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Frank Dinsmore
Watercolor paintings
Explore local Gardiner scenes created by Frank Dinsmore using watercolor paints.
Taylor Newbeck
Acrylic and watercolor paintings
As an artist, Taylor Newbeck makes art inspired by the surrounding world. From landscapes and botanicals to human and animal portraits, Taylor's artwork is stylized, colorful, and inspired by surreal and impressionist painters. Taylor finds when you focus too much on making your work realistic, you tend to lose the soul that gives art life.
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Nathaniel Smith
Photography
Nathaniel is a mostly self taught photographer born and raised in Maine. Nathaniel's obsession with cameras and how they work began at age 9 after receiving a little Walmart camera from Nathaniel's parents.
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Pamela Hetherly
Printmaking
Pamela's first drawings were of horses when Pamela was a child. Then in the third grade Pamela drew a primer to help math-haters realize just how wonderful geometry was, and how geometry explained and related to the world they live in. Maybe this was the beginning of Pamela's long and quite diverse career, from medicine, to engineering, and now painting and printmaking.
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Isabella-zoe Ciolfi
Educational, nature based illustrations, coloring books, stickers, garlands and prints
Isabella-Zoe's art expresses her love with our natural world. Isabella-Zoe draws to remind herself that she is a part of this earth, born from its gorgeous mossy layers. It also keeps her sane.
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Mike Gent
Oil paintings on canvas or panel
Mike Gent enjoys layering and mixing images to draw the viewer beyond the obvious.
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Ben Appleby-Maguire
Spray paint, oil paint, pen and ink, wood
Ben Appleby-Maguire has been drawing and painting abstract work since childhood. Things don't always seem to make sense in this world, but if you trust in Him they will.
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Dandelion Art - Photography by Jen Hickey
Photography
Dandelion Art is a funky little art studio that is full of color, energy and spunk. Art pieces are created by Jen Hickey in hopes to bring energy, joy, peace and mindfulness to viewers. Her inspiration comes from many sources - Mother Nature to vintage teddy bears to rusty old coffee pots. Hickey’s studio captures the soul of living, the art in the earth and vibrancy of life.
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Karen Adrienne
Printmaking
Nature and printmakers love the diversity of repetition. Karen's printworks are underscored with reiteration and distill observations and reflections of the natural environment. She makes drawings and photographs to capture moments in time on her daily walks and world travels. The notations are the inspiration for her concepts and monotype images.
Her monotypes are built by overlaying multiple flats of color with repeated marks and shapes. These elements come to life with the pressure of the press. There is always a balance between careful planning and chance: between ideas and the diverse physical properties of printmaking techniques. The evolving images stretch to capture personal insight, environmental concerns, and all the surprising places between.
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Kelly Maines
Paintings
Kelly begins working with an inspiration, which can be anything; a blade of grass, a plastic bag blowing across the street, or the smell of a garbage truck passing by. She experiments with materials, color, and design. Painting is a physical activity as she moves and manipulates materials and paint, forming the shapes, values, and works placed in space. Kelly weaves these things in and out of the surface until reaching her destination with the piece.
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Tanya Russell
Photography
Tanya Russell is a visual storyteller interested in stories of growth, healing, and community. Her work is a celebration of people and the challenges they work to overcome. Her nature photography represents her own strategies for navigating difficult times through exploration and adventure.
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