Amy Pollien » cityscape

Do you have $845,000.00?

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:17:56 +0000

And would you like to own a barber shop? Ray’s is for sale in the village. Built in 1887, the combination plumbing office and barber shop has been a fixture for decades. The building has four rental units plus the two shops, and at 3/4 of a million dollars is the least expensive commercial property available on the island – which just boggles the mind. Full of character it might be, but at $845,000.00 I think it’s probably a “tear-down” on Main St. We have plenty of salons on MDI, but only one honest-to-buzz-cut barber shop. I’m going to miss it when it’s gone.

New work

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:30:38 +0000

Bangor in the snow: the corner of Merrimac and Water Sts.

New work

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:27:39 +0000

Mel's Lane

18 x 24, pastel on marbled board, sunny afternoon in Stonington.

Other avenues. . .

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:42:13 +0000

I keep a notebook of places to paint, eventually, some day when I have more time out of doors. Some of these houses and trees will wait till I return and some have been torn down or “restored” out of character. The images are glossy 4 x 5’s taken with an ancient auto-everything Nikon and worked over with a Sharpie and photo retouch markers.

New work – Southwest Harbor

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:32:18 +0000

Road to the Harbor

There are still many small houses here, even with the water so close at hand. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon, and along with a couple walking their dogs and distant flocks of gulls I saw a winter hare, a fox and a racoon.

Across the Street Series: The Yellow House

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:08:11 +0000

Bar Harbor streets are old and narrow – even more so when the ice and snow build up along the edges. Some houses can only be seen from straight on, so I have an entire series from “across the street”.