It’s not always easy to get to that place where you can go heart to hand. It’s the best. What’s left on the canvas is honesty. I relate it to letting down your guard, no facade, like a musician that can somehow get up on stage and miraculously remove the audience. They lay their soul out there and sing or play directly from their heart. It’s gutsy and beautiful.
My daughter (now at St.Lawrence University) recently forwarded a utube link to me. In the subject box, she simply wrote “these guys are awesome!”, no message attached. I sat there spellbound as I watched and listened. The film is not creatively done. It’s shot in front of a bookshelf in someone’s living room so don’t expect the cinematography to blow you away. But there are 3 guys lost for a few minutes, doing something they love. Giving you a slice of their souls, honest and true.
education .
BFA . Maine College of Art (PSA)
Maine Photographic Workshop
Apprenticeship with German Photographers Margit/Juergen Kuhlmey
what I call home .
salt air, open skies, tall trees, our house on the hill, on board our 35’ sloop ... maine for life
inspiration .
Richard Diebenkorn, Milton Avery, Wil Barnet, Ashley Bryan, Imogen Cunningham,
leafless trees, northwest wind, crows calling down, rolling white fields,
clouds racing across mountain peaks, my honest kids and upbeat tireless husband
studio .
I have a small studio in the ell of our “big house, little house, back house, barn” where you are welcome to stop by to see my work.
Exhibits
2010 June - Islesford, ME - 8 Artists Retreating
2010 current - Charleston, SC Maine Artists Group Show
2009 Fiddlehead Center for the Arts "Connectivity" Show
2009 MECA 5th Annual Alumni Print Session
2009 Fairfield Porter/Island Artists/Great Spruce Head Island Show, Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, ME
2008 The SHOW - Portland, ME
2008 Freeport Creative Arts Show - Bruce Brown Curator
2008 North Haven - Group Show
2007 Vinal Haven, Maine - Group Show
Ongoing work in Charleston, SC & Yarmouth, ME at MCF
2006 Poffabro Italy - Group Show
2005 MECA Alumni Show - Gallery at Chase Hill, Kennebunkport
2005 Isle Au Haut Group Show
2004 Featured Artist at the Stone House, Freeport
2004 Islesford Group Show
2003 Jan,Feb Freeport Artists in Residence, Harrington House
2003 GSHI Group Show
2000-2006 Maine Artists Exhibit at Maine Audobon
2001 Oct/Nov Thos. Moser Solo Exhibit, Freeport
2001 Greater Portland 50, Maine Artist’s Space, Danforth Gallery juried show
2001, 1999 Great Spruce Hd Island Art Week selected participant
1999 MECA Alumni Juried Show
1998-2009 MECA Auction Selected Participant
The Greater Portland Regional 50 Exhibit/Danforth Gallery review excerpt:“. . . Juror Alison Ferris admits that many of the submissions were from the traditional, rather than conceptual, mode. Indeed, several of the participants’ works possess that certain mass appeal. However, “works like Laurie Hadlock’s ‘Snow Field,’ ... are vaguely familiar motifs, but with surprisingly unique and unfamiliar styles and approaches. . .” Alison Ferris, former curator, Bowdoin College.
awards
I have received a few awards, but my favorite (that I consider an award) was the day I was carefully packing paintings into my Outback. Ilka, my daughter who was maybe 5 years old at the time, was sitting on the granite steps in front of our woodshed watching intently. When I was nearly done and ready to drive away to deliver them to be shown (and possibly sold), she came dashing towards the car, located a very specific painting and ran into the house and upstairs.
It remains in her bedroom to this day and makes me smile every time I walk by that open door. It is also one of my all time favorites. How did she know?
contact
email lhadlock2@gmail.com
mail 4 indian ridge rd freeport me 04032
phone 207.837.0156
