Biography

Rebecca Poole-Heyne was born in Castine, Maine in 1956, and is a fourth generation Brooksville native. She attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS Canada and San Francisco Art Institute during the late 70’s.

These formative years were rich with influential artist/teachers including Eric Fischl, Mira Schor, Bob Berlin, John Baldessari, and Ed Porter. During her time at the SFAI, she studied color photography with Hank Wessel. These influences still strongly guide her artistic direction today.

After raising several children in their small house in Brooksville, Bec returned to the studio and became an art teacher in two elementary schools on the peninsula for the last decade.

Photography and painting remain vital media for her current work. Landscape is, however, a newer theme and one that holds powerful emotional pulls. Growing up poor in rural Maine, she sought the landscape as a place of peace, refuge, and hope as a child. Returning to the landscape with her dogs during this pandemic, has opened a door to the remnants of old emotions which have been poignant and powerful.

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Curriculum Vitae

2016, 2017 Maine Arts Education Association  (MAEA) Haystack Art Educators Studio 

2015 Maine Dept. of Education: Maine Arts Integration Collaboration 

2013 MAed  Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (Arts education) 

2011 Vermont Studio Center Summer Residency, Johnson, Vermont 

1982 - 1984 Post-Graduate - Fine Arts University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 

1974, 1979 BFA    Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada 

1976 - 1978 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 

 

2021                            Everyday Obsessions: Two Artists    Blue Hill Public Library

2013-2021                   Paint the Peninsula                             Blue Hill Public Library         

2019- 2021                  Summer Group Show                         Brooksville Free Public Library         

2019                            Autumn Group Show                          Parker Ridge               

2017                            The Wisdom of Ordinary Things        Gallery Within                        

2015                            Reversing Falls Fiber Arts Exhibit     Gallery Within                        

2015                            Farm Arts Exchange                           Gallery Within                        

2011                            12”x12”                                              Deer Isle Art Association 

2010                            Four Artists                                       Deer Isle Art Association

2005                            Dog Walk                                     Blue Hill Food Co-op Café Gallery