Kelley Bouchard

Staff Writer

Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Easel does it, raising $45,000

by Kelley Bouchard

The Wet Paint Auction for the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust is propelled by 30 artists, each creating a piece in one day.

Janet Ledoux set up her wooden easel and began painting at 6 a.m. Sunday.

That’s when the light was right to capture the seaweed-covered rocks off Trundy Point. The Biddeford artist rendered the rocks in thick strokes of cadmium yellow and alizarin crimson.

“If you’re a plein-air painter, it’s really all about the light,” Ledoux explained. “I prefer to paint very early in the morning or very late in the afternoon. When the light is strong overhead, it bleaches everything out.”

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