October Art Exhibit in the Community Room:
THE QUIETUDES: PORTRAIT SERIES FROM A COTTAGE BY THE SEA

Opening Reception: Wednesday October 1st | 4:30-5:45pm
On Display through October 29th

Begun during Covid and continuing today, the Quietudes emerged from small pencil sketches in Avis Turner’s notebook. To bring them alive, she applies many layers of watercolor paint to full-size pencil drawings. “As with my sculptures, these portraits arrive like poems, from intuitive, dreamlike places,” she explains. 

“They come to tell me their stories,” she continues. “Arriving, sometimes as mythical or winged persons, they take their places by open windows to the sea. They bring their objects and their tasks – things such as tea cups, playing cards, and the mending of bird wings. They participate in magic, collect stones on plates and rainwater in bowls. They celebrate the seasons of ancient Celtic calendars and full moons. They have tea with ospreys.” 

Avis Turner is a retired art teacher and professor. She moved to Maine in 2014, where she began to restore a small house which was originally built in 1847. Her “cottage by the sea” now has vegetable and flower gardens, a small pollinator meadow, and her studio. She lives there with her German Shepherd, Elodie.  

View Avis Turner’s website HERE.

Please note: The Community Room where the art is displayed is off limits Tuesdays 10am-11:30am during Yoga for EveryBody.

Would you like to see your work displayed at the Jackson Memorial Library?

We are taking applications for 2026 artists.

2026 Artist Application

Click here for the 2026 Artist Application Form.

Go to “File” > “Download” to download a copy. Print it out and fill it in. (If you don’t have a home printer, you may use the library’s printer located behind the library’s Circulation Desk.)

Then mail the application to:
Jackson Memorial Library
P.O. Box 231
Tenants Harbor, ME 04860

Or drop it off at the library at 71 Main Street in Tenants Harbor during our open hours.