REVIEWS
MOONS AND ANGELS OVER THOMASTON
By: Christoper Crossman
August 10, 2021
On bright, spring evenings, while driving north on U.S Route 1,
just past Waldoboro, you will begin to see a full moon hanging
just over Thomaston, a sleepy river town of some two thousand
residents that was once home to deep-water ship masters and
China trade clippers and where their stately homes and civic
buildings linger in varied states of genteel dissolution. Now,
painted moons — emblems of a modern-day Brigadoon — are
seen in a series of paintings by Ann Craven, whose new gallery
has just opened in a beautifully renovated Catholic church in
Thomaston. There, Craven’s moons are accompanied by a choir
of night-enfolded apparitions, a group of “angels” by Reggie
Burrows Hodges.
IMAGE
Ann Craven
Moon (Glowing Pink Trees, Rippling Water), 2021
2021
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
