*"Louise Bourne’s paintings offer a visceral response to the physical world. They are deeply emotive, felt responses to the artist’s immediate surroundings. Light, atmosphere, elements of the landscape, corners of sunny porches, the interior of the studio- wherever she turns her keen eye and probing brush, we are rewarded with paintings that reflect her deep intelligence and curiosity about the world. Bourne’s paintings make us care about the most humble and yet most universal of subjects, our everyday lives.” Suzette McAvoy, Executive Director + Chief Curator Emeritus The paintings of award-winning artist Louise Bourne have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries, including Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville Maine; Gallery 61 in New York City; Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta, ; the Greenhut Gallery in Portland, Maine; Alpers Fine Art in Andover, Massachusetts; Smith Killian Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina; Four Winds Gallery in Bristol, Rhode Island; the Aitken Bicentennial in St. John,; New Brunswick, Canada. In addition, her work is in public and corporate collections, including those of the Maine Medical Center in Portland; Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston; Bay Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts; the Department of Public Safety in Houlton, Maine; and Univeristy of Maine’s Lord Hall Gallery. Curator and art critic, Carl Little, includes Bourne’s work in his books on painting, most recently, “The Art of Penobscot Bay”, Islandport Press.