Kathleen A Fox & Peggy Becker
REAL & IMAGINED
Kathleen A Fox
Kathleen A. Fox PhD lives and paints primarily in and around Tenants Harbor and Port Clyde, Maine. Her whimsical style beautifully captures the freedom and quirkiness of Maine.
Fox studied art and journalism at Cornell University and received a PhD in Social Welfare at the Rockefeller College, SUNY Albany, in 1996. A life-long artist, she has won numerous awards for her watercolors, including the Utrecht Award at the New England Watercolor Society Bi-Annual International Show in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
From 2007 to 2023, Fox created the Coastal Maine Calendar, which documented working lobster boats, their captains and ports-of-call. She has also written and illustrated five award-winning children’s books, a book of essays and a history book.
Her paintings have appeared in juried shows throughout mid-coast Maine, including the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, Archipelago Gallery of the Island Institute in Rockland, the Boothbay Regional Art Foundation in Boothbay Harbor, and the Roux-Cyr Gallery in Portland, Maine.
Fox maintains a studio on Blackberry Hill Road, Tenants Harbor, Maine. She has recently added AI to her repertoire of creations, using her paintings as the starting point for an innovative finished piece of art.
Peggy Becker
I invite viewers to step into the scene with me and be moved by the beauty or the truth or the revelation of something they have not seen before. This may be an image from my backyard or from somewhere around the world.
My best days behind a lens begin with curiosity and end with a wonderful surprise that motivates, delights, challenges or inspires.
My intent is to find the fundamental essence of my subjects. My approach is patient—sometimes it has taken me several years, photographing the same subject to achieve my vision. Sometimes it is my willingness to work a subject from a different angle or perspective.
I seek stories, I encourage viewers to ask questions and sometimes I just like the surprise of finding the unusual in the ordinary. My work comes from curiosity about how the world looks through my lens.
But in every image I find inspiration by looking closely first and then asking whether the image is better for its surroundings. I want to draw the viewers’ eye around and in—using all the space purposely whether it is brimming with subject, shape, color, texture—or not.
