Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring: Seasons of a Maine Island
Works by Susan Beebe
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Visitor Center, 9 Water Street, Rockland, ME 04841
January 16 – March 16, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 4 – 6 PM
For forty years, since 1985, when I moved to Friendship Long Island, Maine with my mother, artist Barbara Beebe, I’ve been observing, learning about and depicting the island’s plant and animal life, its weather and seasons in paintings, drawings and sculptures. Three long winters without electricity, and the incoming tide of light in the spring, taught me so much about light, and its ebbs and flows through the seasons.
I paint outside whenever possible, to observe and respond to the light and weather, and the bird, animal and insect life that carries on around me when I am standing still at my easel. A few of the artworks, like “Winter Solstice” were created in my studio working from photos I took on a disposable camera from the drugstore.
More info: info@mainecoastalislands.org
Rogue Princess Suite
This is a suite of illustrations I have created, over the ’23-’24 winter, for Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers. You can see the entire suite here.
An exciting new 30 minute documentary about Susan Beebe’s 40 years of using her art for activism.
In the Deep Woods: Paintings from a Maine Island
exhibition from the summer of ’23
Susan Beebe has been painting in one spot in the deep spruce woods of Friendship Long Island, Maine, for the past three years. Her sixteen paintings are about all the life in a forest: moss and lichens growing on an old stone wall; the decay and life among the roots of the forest floor; seedlings to saplings to tall, mature trees, to snags, to fallen logs: and hints of animal and bird life.
The exhibit was hosted at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
9 Water Street, Rockland ME 04841
June 9 – August 25, 2023
Opening: Friday, June 9, 4 – 6 PM
For more info contact: 207-594-0600 x 5 info@mainecoastislands.org
The Linked Trees, 30 x 24 inches, oil on canvas, 2020
Shed, 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas, 2022
