About Maureen
About Maureen
Maureen Engle is a native New Englander who has spent significant time painting in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. She recently moved from the mountains of northern Georgia to the beaches of Florida. She remains inspired by the woodlands while delighting in the coastal treasures surrounding her new home. Maureen brings God's gifts of peace and joy found in nature to her paintings and then, to the viewer.
Best known for her depictions of colorful hay bales and birch trees, Maureen strives to create a narrative around subjects found in the natural world. Her hay bales are scattered in the field, infused with sunlight and color to denote hard work, harvest, sustenance. Birch trees grow straight, clustered and entangled with colors bouncing off their white bark - pink, lime and purple.
Maureen works in a variety of mediums and across different genres, translating the energy and depth of a tumbling brook or shadow pattern into pure abstraction, and across medium with beautiful watercolors including award winning portraiture.
An intuitive painter, Maureen applies impasto paint with a palette knife in layers and enjoys watching the piece evolve. She is a dedicated art instructor and while in Georgia taught classes and workshops at the Spruill Art Center in Atlanta and at the Alpharetta Art Center. Teaching classes in watercolor, acrylic, oil, drawing and mixed media. She is beginning to teach in Florida and is available for workshops.
Current Galleries:
Frameworks Gallery, Marietta, Georgia
Sunshine Village Gallery, Watkinsville, Georgia
Noteworthy Exhibitions:
ArtPop Street Gallery Artist, Atlanta, Georgia, 2020-21
Color Play,
Roswell Cultural Arts Center, Roswell, Georgia, 2020
Autumnal Symphony, two person show, Good Purpose Gallery, Lee, Massachusetts, 2019
Spotlight on Art Juried Artist Market - Exhibitor 2012-2023
Spruill Arts Student and Faculty Juried Exhibition, Spruill Center for the Arts - Best Faculty Award for Beatrice
(watercolor on paper), 2017
Tops and Bottoms, Solo Exhibit - Ventulett Gallery, 2015
Metro Montage Juried Exhibition, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art - Exhibitor, 2018, 2013
Notable Commissions:
Dance, painting for WellStar Health Park in Avonlon in Alpharetta, Georgia, 2020
Numerous paintings of various sizes and featuring a diversity of subjects commissioned for use in renovated commercial spaces in Atlanta, Georgia, 2013-Current
Sopes Creek
and River Birches
- paintings commissioned for the WellStar Health Park in East Cobb, Georgia, 2014
On the Green, Fall Tree Trio, and Poppy Field
- paintings commissioned by the Horseshoe Bend Country Club, Roswell, Georgia, 2013
Residencies:
Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio - Painting Demonstration Artist, 2018-2024
The Alaska State Parks Artist-in-Residence Program - Ernest Gruening State Park Artist-in-Residence, Summer 2017
Of note:
Chattahoochee Birches
painting was chosen by Georgia Congressman and Mrs. Tom Price for use in their Holiday Card, 2012
HGTV Green Home, Serenbe, Georgia - 100% Cotton
painting featured, 2012
