Dawn Dawn is a quiet painting about the mysterious quality of waiting for a new baby to arrive on the planet. The white stork gleams as he wings across the sky with his precious, dreaming cargo. The houses below slumber as the dawn of a new day paints the horizon behind deep purple hills. This…
The Story The colors of late afternoon October in Maine, magical, bright yet eerie, inspired this witchy piece. A woman in a black Victorian-meets-Steampunk dress walks through a neighborhood full of autumn atmosphere. Is she following the crow? Are they together? Or is he an omen she must read? Lights are coming on in the…
On a walk in April as the Scilla (or Squill, as we call it in Maine) bloomed, right after the crocus I saw so many Robins out, hopping with their curiously predatory gate amongst the mosses and new shoots of grass. The contrast of their rust red breasts with the beautiful blue of the Squill…
The Story “Parliament of Owls” was inspired by a Camden gallery director’s tale of an evening when the woods around his house were filled with the calls of many owls. At first I wanted to go and see the the actual place…but then my dream brain inner self became inundated with images and feelings about…
“Peace Angel” is simply an illustration of my wish for this weary world. That somehow we can all get past our fears and angers and desires for the unattainable, our allegiances to comforting illusions that conceal the pain and need of the world to us and let the dove of peace fly from our hearts…
“Above River Road” captures the spirit of deepest night along lonely country roads in Maine. The horned owl is painted in a semi-realistic style, allowing her to embody the swirling winds of a sky imbued with the magic of the stars. Does the owl live in the night, or does the night live in the…
One Day in August We had almost a week in the summer of 2024 where the temperatures climbed to the nineties here in Hallowell, Maine. That’s unusual for us. Things began to take on a surreal shimmer as life in our mostly un- airconditioned houses and workspaces slowed down to essentials. Except for me, who…
This is an ode to mothers and the way they give their children the best experiences they can, guarding them while glorying in the freedom and joy kids radiate while exploring the magic of their world. The two mothers stand firmly anchored on the pier while the wind blows their clothing into beautiful graphic shapes…
This is a small quiet painting on box board. I kept the young fox almost anchored in realism, just playing up the eyes and element of wonder a little. I simplified the foliage and flowers so that they are more graphic and magical. This painting may be seen and acquired at Michel Paul Artist Studio…
About the picture This is a small painting about the ways faith or spirituality can ebb and flow, morph slowly or change radically in an instant of enlightenment or disillusion. The woman’s black hair purposely echoes the raven’s feathers and we do not know if the corvid is real or an aspect of the subject’s…
Fantasy Mural This mural may be seen on Central Street in Hallowell, Maine, on your right as you go up the steep hill. The lovely couple who own the yellow house wanted something unusual for the peak of their house and they chose this idea of barn owl perching in a window to another dimension…
Mysterious knitters with mad skills.
Small painting of two barn swallows and twin heart weathervane for valentine, wedding, or anniversary gift by Jen Greta Cart
A classic white New England house becomes a vessel sailing to new lands and new adventures. A woman of grandmotherly age, in a vintage dress, knits as she captains her ship. Her friends, a green parrot and an orange tabby cat are her loyal crew as she sails bravely into the sunset. I feel that…
Acrylic 19.5″ x 15.5″ “The Lady of Spring” is about those days in Spring in Maine when life returns. The Maiden Goddess of Spring walks across the land and the snow retreats before her beautiful feet. Her magical footsteps melt the snow and leaves and flowers spring up in her wake. In the snow before…
As the phoenix lives again after fiery death, so can humans after devastating loss. My husband, artist Chris Cart, and I painted this fantastic and inspiring Phoenix Rising mural for the Travis Mills Foundation that depicts prosthetic steampunk phoenix wings, symbolizing a new beginning for our recalibrated veterans. We wanted to create an image that was heroic, beautiful,…
This painting of a red fox pausing in her travels by an abandoned gravestone in Maine is about things that endure. The double hearts and cracks of the granite headstone signify the everlasting love of a couple throughout the adversity of their lives. But there’s also a theme I come back to again and again…the…
Mural on the Cabot Mills Building A sky of gold, lemon and teal printed fabric makes up a beautiful sunrise as people work together to sew a patchwork quilt world of peace and hope for the future on the old Wampanoag portage site on the Androscoggin River. White patchwork doves flutter on the right, while…
My painting of a hula dancer in the South Pacific is an ode to the way the subject’s body encompasses the beauty of her Island and its culture . The dancer’s skirt is comprised of the swirling designs of Polynesian tattoo art. The painting is named after the Island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas…
The waters of the Maine coast are full of mermaid magic in my painting about reclaiming wildness and freedom of soul. If you look closely at the two figures you can see that it’s the same woman, and the young mermaid is calling the older woman back to the sea, back to her true self. …
This is a small portrait of a new bride’s mother in law putting finishing touches on the wedding gown. The wedding took place on the groom’s family land in Mexico. I formalized most elements of the painting, and played up the contrast between the white gown and the dry wood of the shed. I finished…
A young girl contemplates an enchanted frog prince in this exploration of a young girls contemplation of societal expectations and norms. Her face is serious, and the toad’s jewel like eye seems to lead into a dark unexplored universe. The background of willow leaves encloses the moment, and stirs in the breeze of possibilities. The…
Acrylic 18″ x 24″ 2016 A maiden in white floats sleeping in a twilight sky. Above her dreaming and virginal form, moons wax and wane in succession, symbolizing the cycles of her upcoming three or four decades of fertility. Beneath her mysterious objects grow from a mossy landscape. On closer inspection we see that these…
Red Riding Hood and her lifelong friend.
Acrylic 2017 16″ x 20″ Inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem of the same name. The eponymous swans are thrilling, larger than life, their feathers pure as the clouds, freedom made physical. Meanwhile, down on earth, the landscape seems prettified, pleasantly civilized into a quilt. Two swans, lower in the sky, made of quilt…
2015 Egg Tempera 18 x 30″ A nude woman of mature years and her companion, a tiger, regard the viewer fearlessly from their jungle home.
Egg Tempera portrait of a fifteen year old girl with a theme of rebirth and renewal. I painted the background pale sky with a variety of blues, creams and greys crosshatched in tiny strokes to give that feeling of limitless sky and contrasted the austerity of bare branches with the life of the girls…
The Subject I did this watercolor portrait of my daughter-in-law, Kate, as a present for my son. The image of a woman calmly reading while cradled by the immense clawed limbs of a dragon suited the duality of Kate’s scholarly yet valiant personality. The grey dress contrasts with her beautiful pale olive skinned redhead coloring,…
Acrylic on board 16 x 12″ Portrait of my husband, Chris Cart, at work at his easel, creating magic within the sorcery of an October day in Maine. To talk about portrait commission possibilities, contact me here.
2015 Egg Tempera 24″ x 35″ A grey haired woman in a Victorian dress complete with draped bustle and walking parasol sets forth on a path into the jungle that stands as a metaphor for her interior life. A white bird of paradise flies ahead of her, and a small winged lizard watches from the…
