Joanne Parent is a Maine seascape painter whose luminous oils and pastels capture the atmospheric hush between waves — the shifting light, the charged moment before nightfall, and the radiant stillness that defines the coast of her home state. Raised on the shores of Penobscot Bay and shaped by years captaining charters and sailing across the globe, Joanne Parent brings a rare firsthand intimacy with the ocean to every canvas she creates.
Working intuitively from a converted barn studio in Belfast, Maine, she builds atmospheric seascapes in layers, guided by music, memory, and mood rather than mechanical observation. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Joanne Parent creates paintings that hold space for the fleeting and the luminous.
What does a life spent at sea leave behind in the work of a painter who finally comes home to put it all on canvas?