About the Artist

 Louisa Wickard’s art education began as a child growing up on Monhegan Island and continues today as the art instructor at the Chebeague Island School. Formative influences include pattern studies with fiber artist Robert Semple, color lessons with painter Lynne Drexler, art history and religion studies at Bowdoin College, a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship focused on printmaker Ando Hiroshige, and a year of study with a calligraphy master in Kyoto, Japan.  

Wickard’s recent work involves the study of five particular neighborhood trees. Each time she paints a tree it reveals new things to her. While communing with nature she is constantly reminded that she is not alone in nature… Her phone rings, a stranger stops to talk, and events that have happened nearby come to mind.  Through layers of paint these fleeting moments become a part of a more enduring landscape .