The Island Inn Show, "MONHEGAN ENERGY" May 23rd to October 12th, 2025
"Michael Vermette has his own style. I am personally drawn to the paintings that have a good bit of dark and light – so dramatic, and clean – crisp with wonderful shadows, but truly, I love them all." Barbara Stroud editor of ArtFoodHome.com.
View Link of her full Blog at http://artfoodhome.com/2016/11/16
| "We retired to Maine last April and live in Freeport on Wolf Neck. Celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary, we visited Monhegan Island for the first time the weekend before last. Wonderful place and Kerrie captured a spectacular, I mean truly spectacular, sunset from the porch of the Island Inn. While visiting the Lupine Gallery, Kerrie said she loved your painting (only one she really liked..."wonderful colors"), The Gully. I surprised her with it yesterday as my anniversary gift. I assume it is always a good thing to learn that one's work brings joy to another person."- Best, Ed Moser. |
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THE RACE:
a Monhegan Oil & Watercolor Plein Air Painting Workshop
A Monhegan Oil & Watercolor Plein Air Painted sketch workshop
With Michael E. Vermette and associate Eric Glass
September 19th At the Spruce Point Inn, Boothbay Harbor
and September 22nd to 25th, 2026 at the Island Inn, Monhegan
Price: $500.00 for 5 days of instruction
Inn, meals, and travel accommodations are extra. To Register: CLICK HERE to register for the Workshop
Spruce Point Inn Accomodations: Booking link - https://be.synxis.com/?
1 Cottage room woodlawn view - $279
1 Lodge Oceanview - $349
6 Lodge Partial Oceanview - $299
The Island Inn , Accommodations: Booking Link - https://islandinnmonhegan.com/the-island-inn/
(207) 594-0159
Description:
Come challenge your painting skills against the most amazing out-to-sea island environment in the Gulf of Maine. Get acquainted with multiple Monhegan locations while walking in the very footsteps of the original masters who first ran their " Race", namely, Robert Henri, George Bellows, and Randall Davey. Paint alongside two Maine College of Art alumni who have been painting for over 50 years.
Instructor Michael E. Vernette, a Monhegan resident artist in 1999, award winning plain air painter, and featured Island Inn artist of 2025, Also award winning plein air painter Eric Glass as the workshop assistant and historian for students in these highly productive 4 days of Plein air painting. The workshop will be based at the picturesque Island Inn, originally built by Frank Pierce on a bluff with a commanding view of the harbor, the Barnicle shop and pavilion area, where we will hold our group critiques and Monhegan Artist presentations. This is intended to give the participants a solid foundation from which to build their painting experiences. Here, the artist will collect information by establishing a painting rhythm with the island that produces fresh, spontaneous painted sketches as opposed to finished paintings. Come and experience what Robert Henri spoke of in his book, "The Art Spirit".
"All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. The words of ancient masters, those of the student next to you, the remark let drop a moment ago, all is experience, race experience". - Robert Henri
For more details CLICK HERE
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Purchase Michael's newest book that features 53 colored reproductions of his painting studies of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Michael was the inagueal Visiting Artist of 2020 the same year of the waterway's 50th anniversary. To purchase the book CLICK HERE!
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THE ARTIST’S TRAIL: PLEIN AIR RANGELEY
July 13th to July 17th, 2026
Price: $275 – ( Lodging and meals extra)
To Register: Click HERE
Come join a group of oil and watercolor painters this summer, who will be making painterly sketches en plein air at two different locations per day on the famed artist’s trail. participants are encouraged to paint with the instructor, who will demonstrate and paint in oil and watercolor mediums on location. Michael Vermette will offer group critiques, present visual aids to highlight painterly approaches in both mediums, and offer pointers on location through visits with painters. the workshop will cover capturing the light of the landscape, the weight of form, the use of color, creating effective texture, atmospheric depth, and making spontaneous brush and palette knife passages of paint that create a reasonable facsimile of the landscape subject. award-winning painter, Nora West, who will also be painting with participants, and will be this year’s instructor assistant. she will provide help with schedules, lesson plans, and logistics so that the workshop will run more smoothly. become an action painter this summer! capture up to three landscape painted sketches with the immediacy that brings rangeley’s lakes, rivers, and mountains to life.
Lodging Options – Please contact the Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce: 207- 864-5571, www.rangeleymaine.com
For Itinerary and More Details: CLICK HERE
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