JUNE ARTIST OF THE MONTH LISA KYLE

The Bremen Library is pleased to welcome back Lisa Kyle as our June artist of the month. As far back she can remember, Lisa 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. 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. 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 Wednesday, June 3, from 3-5 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.