ABOUT4
A long-time resident of Maine,
Nina Jerome finds inspiration for her work in both natural and constructed environments, drawing and painting in series that examine visual variations of place. For her the painting process conveys her personal direction through the land as she witnesses its light, movement, and changes.
Jerome spends the warmer months in coastal Maine, a rich visual resource with its undeveloped shoreline and wide-ranging tidal fluctuations. She has also explored sense-of-place in other Maine areas, relating her landscape interest to her personal experience. Having completed residencies in Iceland, Virginia, and two favorite Maine islands, she has extended that range beyond her place of residence. Jerome has created paintings for fourteen public art projects in Maine including a series of six triptychs for the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor.
Jerome is represented in Maine by Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, The Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle, George Marshall Store Gallery in York, The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor (September13 – December 21, 2019).
Jerome is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Rhode Island School of Design and taught drawing and painting at the University of Maine for twenty-seven years. She has also taught workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Craft and Monson Arts.
INTERVIEW
Elizabeth Moss Blog – Focus Artist, Nina Jerome
PRESS
Maine Arts Journal, UMVA Quarterly, Winter 2016, Lines of Thought, pg. 51
Maine Arts Journal, UMVA Quarterly, Winter 2019, Sketchbook
Maine Sunday Telegram, Daniel Kany, May 6, 2018 Surprises Dot Maine’s “Other Landscape” at USM