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“Stonington Dazzle”

Jill Hoy’s distinctive landscapes are displayed in numerous public spaces, offices and restaurants as well as in galleries throughout
Maine, but it’s only in her Stonington gallery that you get the full impact and sense of the range of her vibrant and evolving work.
The former livery stable overflows with bright canvases and translucent watercolors. They cover the whitewashed walls and are
stacked in corners.
Older paintings are realistically detailed, many crisply depicting Stonington’s mansard-roofed homes, tiered above sparkling water.
More recent paintings are bolder, freer. One work shows an autumn view of cadmium-colored blueberry barrens set against deep
green spruce under a sky filled with racing blue and violet clouds.
“My work is entering a new, more lyrical stage,” Jill said.
“I’m in the wildness of the place, responding to the tides and
the wind, a pulsation that’s almost musical.”
She paints en plein air, capturing the way light plays with our
eyes. “We go around seeing grey but there’s so much color in
the world,” she said. “I get feedback from many people who tell
me that I’ve changed the way they see.”
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Dazzling

in tonington

feature by Christina T ee
“Western Bay,” is a 36 x 36 oil on canvas by Jill Hoy.
phot s courtesy of Jill Hoy Gallery

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