The Bremen Library is pleased to host local artist Lisa Kyle as our June Artist of the Month.

As far back she can remember, Kyle loved to draw and paint and always wanted to be a painter.  Even when she began practicing architecture, she studied painting, taking art classes wherever she and her husband lived - at SMU in Dallas, at the Savannah College of Art while teaching architecture there, and at the Maryland Institute College of Art.  She studied privately with many artists, including Scott Christensen, Jill Carver and Lori Putnam, with a dream of being able to paint full-time one day.

Kyle spent many years as a residential architect, squeezing in time to paint whenever she could:  early mornings before heading into the office, or on the weekends after finishing chores.  In 2006, she had a scary awakening when diagnosed with breast cancer.  She realized that a lot of those clichés are true:  life is short, life can turn on a dime, you should follow your dreams, and there really is no time like the present.  So after finishing cancer treatments in 2007,  she began to make a plan: to live somewhere beautiful and to paint for a living. She and her husband moved to Maine in 2016, and in 2017, she began to paint full time. In winter, she  paints in her studio while listening to music from a vast collection of CDs. 

For inspiration, she uses field sketches, plein-aire paintings and photographs.  Whether her work is created in the field or in her studio, Kyle tries to capture the beauty of the natural world. The more that she paints, the more convinced she is that  art is important - quite simply, it feeds our souls. She says her calling is to lift up nature by creating beautiful objects so that others can live with the beauty and serenity of nature.  

Her art will be on display in the Bremen Library meeting room gallery throughout the month of June, with an artist’s opening reception on Thursday, June 5, from 4 to 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

The library is located at 204 Waldoboro Road, Bremen.  Library hours are Wednesday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.;  Thursday  10 a.m. - 7 p.m.;  Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sat 9 a.m. - noon.