Harvest Gold Gallery is very excited to welcome back Gwen Nagel to another Plein Air Paint Out here at our shop in Lovell, ME. It will be held Saturday August 3rd starting at 10 am. 

Originally from Minnesota, Gwen Nagel painted in oils as a teenager and began studying art at the University of Minnesota.  She switched majors, however, eventually earning a Ph.D. in English at Tufts University. Gwen taught writing and American literature in New England (Tufts, Bentley College, Harvard Business School) and at the University of Georgia until 1997, when she devoted herself full time to art.

She has studied pastels with many nationally known artists including Albert Handell, Ann Templeton, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, Robert Carsten,  Aline Ordman, and Barbara Jaenicke. A founding member and former president of the Plein Air Painters of the South East, Gwen maintains memberships in several local and national art organizations. She has had many one-person exhibitions, and her work has been included in numerous selected group exhibitions throughout the south and New EnglandHer artwork has also appeared on several book covers. Primarily a landscape painter, she enjoys working en plein air in pastels and oils. She divides her time between Grantham, NH, and Harrison, ME.  She creates paintings to capture a sense of place, to preserve a vulnerable landscape, to record the quality of light, and to spend time with other artists in beautiful places.

For more information, call the gallery at (207) 925-6505. We hope to see you there!