The Deer Isle Artists Association presents the fifth ART matters 4 session with featured artists Carole Ann Fer, Katy Helman and Leslie Miller Landrigan at the Deer Isle Artists Association Gallery, 15 Main St. The session focuses on artists who work in different media, but fashion their surfaces in striking ways.

About the Artists:

Carole Ann Fer is dedicated to making utilitarian pots that quietly enhance daily life. She comes from 10 generations of seamstresses and tailors, and she looks toward fashion and textiles for inspiration in form and surface. She throws all her work on the potters’ wheel with slow cadence, then alters it immediately so the work is fresh, spontaneous and evocative of fabric being worked.

Katy Helman synthesizes genres and styles to create paintings in ways that reflect her childhood fashion sense. “My mother allowed me free rein to dress myself, and I mixed florals with plaids and paisleys and added stripes,” she said. “I am still mixing stripes and paisleys in my painting.”

Leslie Miller Landrigan likes to paint light as it turns an ordinary object into something extraordinary. “I covered breaking news as a journalist for many years, which piqued my interest in capturing fleeting moments,” she said.

The program begins at 1:30 pm. Artists will bring examples of their work and discuss it with each other, then the audience will join in. DIAA Board Member Hub White will serve as moderator. A reception follows with 44 North Coffee, tea and homemade cake.

Founded in 1972, the Deer Isle Artists Association is a member-run nonprofit organization committed to creating and exhibiting art. Our more than 100 members include painters, sculptors, printmakers, jewelers, fiber artists, photographers, ceramicists and other artists.

Image: Painting by Leslie Miller Landrigan