Painting the Town Together
Following separate paths that occasionally lead to the same place, husband and wife artists Jon Imber and Jill Hoy are capturing the essence of summer in Stonington.
By Edgar Allen Beem, Photographs by Benjamin Magro
Jill Hoy's paintings of Deer Isle and Stonington are festive, sunny canvases aflutter with bunting and whirligigs, day-lilies and lupine, poppies and Queen Anne's lace. Great white Victorian homes sun themselves stoically, attended by gardens and lawn furniture. Blue skies illuminate crimson blueberry barrens. Fields of wildflowers bow toward the stony shore and the sea beyond. These are the Hoy visions that have impressed themselves on Maine audiences since the 1970s whether gathered together in Hoy's own summer gallery, selected for exhibition at other galleries and museums, or published in guidebooks, art books, and L.
