Adrienne Kernan LaVallee is a painter based on the southern coast of Maine. Raised in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, she developed a lifelong relationship with Maine, returning each summer beginning in early childhood and finally relocating, permanently, in 2011. LaVallee’s landscape paintings are built through a balance of color, value, and assertive brushwork and palette-knife work. Her process moves between additive and reductive methods, with the removal of paint playing as critical a role as its application. Forms are developed through this push-and-pull, allowing visual surprises to emerge while maintaining a sense of openness. Working between observation and abstraction, she integrates elements of imagination, distilling the landscape into compositions that invite interpretations. Adrienne holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been an exhibiting artist for over 40 years. Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including Canada, Mexico, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She is the recipient of a 2024 Monhegan Artists’ Residency, two New Hampshire State Arts Council Fellowships, and a residency in Wilson, Wyoming.