About the Artist

“My work celebrates the beauty of nature as an expression of God's will and mercy.

I am mostly self-educated. We kids were given the tools and expected to use them. My landscapes derive from my own photographs.

These years I paint in the wintertime. The growing months find me in my big gardens. 

Color, light, rhythm, love -”

About the Artist

Varvara Agabekova, born in 1983 in Leningrad, was raised in an artistic family. Influenced by her artist father and grandfather, she developed a passion for color and creativity early on. She studied at the N.K. Roerich Art College and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.

Varvara’s work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions, including in San Diego and Los Angeles. Her art captures a personal view of the world, central to her creative process.

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About the Artist

Derek Hayes (b. 1977) is an artist working with photography. Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Derek now calls Maine home.  

Artist Statement

There’s a local expression that someone who wasn’t born in Maine is “from away”.  I’m “from away” and the notion of seeing from the outside drives my practice.  I’m interested in examining themes of isolation and connection and our collective relationship with the passage of time. I value photography as a tool for noticing the familiar and showing its underlying peculiarity. I strive to make images that seem approachable at first glance, where mystery and the uncanny are revealed on closer reading and possibly unanswerable questions are pondered. My vision is rooted in realism, the world as it is offered, but my photographs merge reality with artifice and construction.

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