It really is springtime, with new work and new beginnings bursting forth at the Green Lion Gallery in Bath along with new leaves on the trees.  Some gallery artists are celebrating travel, significant moves, and other personal milestones with new work and new directions, and the Green Lion is also welcoming several new artists to the gallery with a show that opened May 25 and runs through June 10.

 The new exhibit focuses on the exuberant color and promise of springtime and new beginnings, but also includes images of migration, movement, and multi-layered ambiguity that recall the paths not taken and things left behind.  Most of the works in the show are wood or linoleum-cut prints, but it also includes print collage, monoprints, drawings, and paintings.

Siri Beckman, well-known artist and printmaker who spent decades on Deer Isle, moved to Bath this winter and has begun celebrating her relocation with some new work, including paintings.  Holly Berry brings new linocuts in her graphically dazzling style, invigorated by recent travels. Master Japanese-method printmaker Matt Brown was recently here to lead a workshop, and brought new prints with him too.  New work is here from most of the gallery’s community of artists, in fact. 

The Green Lion is delighted to welcome some exciting new artists as well.  Intricate and intimate woodcut prints by nationally recognized artist Jean Gumpper now grace the gallery with their depth and subtlety of color.  With intriguing serendipity, there are now three other artists in the gallery who have worked and studied with Gumpper:  Sherrie York, a linocut wildlife and landscape artist who moved to midcoast Maine this winter from Colorado; Amanda Lilleston, print and collage artist and also the dynamic new printmaking instructor at Colby College; and gallery owner and woodcut artist David Morgan.  Three more Maine artists round out the new arrivals at the Green Lion – Julie Crane, one of the artists in the recent Maine-Aomori print exchange, Susan Wilder, instructor and Dean of the MFA program at Heartwood College, and Brunswick artist Jay Stormer who has recently returned to printmaking.

The Green Lion is located at 104 Front St., Bath.  More information at www.greenlionart.com.