HOULTON — Candace McKellar vacationed in Maine and arrived in Maine in 1974 to live and paint what she had always been fascinated with, Maine’s tallest peak, Mt. Katahdin. She has been painting the mountain ever since she moved. She recently moved from a house with no view of the mountain to a home with an everyday view of the mountain, in various weather conditions, from her studio. McKellar states that she is excited to approach each painting as a fresh new idea, a new way to render the majesty of the mountain on canvas or board.
Several of her murals are on display in various buildings in Island Falls and at the Patten Lumberman’s Museum, both in Maine.
Over the past several years she has entered paintings in the Maine Art Educator’s Exhibits in Portland/Gorham, Augusta, Wiscasset and the Art in the Heart in the Bangor Public Library. She has spent time on Monhegan Island, painting with artist friends of the Bangor Art Society. She has painted in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ Artist in the Garden Show in the Boothbay Harbor area.
In 2005, McKellar won the first Chancellor’s Award in the University of Maine System which was chosen from the Art Educator’s Exhibit at the University of Maine in Augusta. Several of her paintings were selected in the “Take a Hike Art Show” about Mt. Katahdin for the Friends of Baxter Park by the Design Gallery in Bangor in 2011.
McKellar is a retired art educator for the MSAD 25 school system in Stacyville. Presently, Candace has worked with supporters of the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project to provide 11×14 prints of her painting of Mt. Katahdin at the Visions Art Gallery, 66 Main St., Houlton. You can purchase a print for $35 at the Gallery or at the Horn of Plenty Restaurant on North St. in Houlton. Note cards of the print will also be available.
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