"Like the old farms and landscapes that inspire me in Connecticut, it's the lobster industry and people - the "sea farmers" of Maine - that draw me. The robust and beautiful physical settings, combined with the toils and accoutrements of the age-old trades and their struggle with the elements and their reliance on Providence to put food on the table and clothes on their backs, make for a pictorial saga that is magnetic."
"This is the visual conversation that I try to convey through my art, and I constantly strive to say it in a way that is beautiful enough to do justice to what in my mind is the enormity of the subject. I feel that it is monumental, yet simple and beautiful and thought provoking at the same time."
Excerpt from the introduction of: My Maine The Coastal Watercolors of Normand Chartier, Down East Books Camden, Maine
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