About

Maxene Raymond
" Seeing makes me paint and painting makes me see."
Maxene Raymond is a pastelist, born in New York and currently living and working on Cape Cod. With a 30 year career in interior design, she has long been involved with the effects of color, space, and light. In 2009 she began studying pastel painting with Odin Smith at the Cape Cod Art Association and became a juried member there in 2010. In 2016, she was honored with the designation of Master Artist at the Cape Cod Art Association and in 2018 with Signature Membership in the Connecticut Pastel Society. She has studied with Liz Haywood Sullivan, Deb Quinn Munson, Christine Bodnar, Doug Dawson, Stan Sperlak, Marla Baggetta, Jean Hirons, Christine Ivers, Aline Ordman,Barbara Jaenicke,Gigi Leverett, Ken Elliott, Tony Allain, Alain Picard,Ed Chesnovitch, Tom Christopher, Michelle Mozzone, Jeanne Tangney, Jen Evenhus, and Deborah Stewart, and Jacob Aguia, and Jeanne Rossier Smith. She is a member and board member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, a Signature Member of the Connecticut Pastel Society ,and also holds memberships in the Pastel Society of America, the Falmouth Art Guild, and the Pastel Society of Maine. She is represented by the Eastwind Gallery in Orleans,MA. and exhibits regularly with the Sandwich Arts Alliance. Maxene has been juried into the following national shows for the Summer of 2018: The National Association of Women Artists 2018 Summer Small Works Show, the Pastel Painters Society ofCape Cod’s For Pastels Only, the Cape Cod Art Center’s Baystate Open, where she was awarded Honorable Mention in Pastel and The Connecticut Pastel Society’s Purely Pastel Online Show. 2017 juried shows include The All New England at the Cape Cod Art Association,The Connecticut Pastel Society's Renaissance in Pastel, North Carolina’s Pure Color Online Show, and the Pastel Society of Maine’s Pastels Only, The Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s For Pastels Only, where she was honored with the Pastel Society of North Carolina Award, the Connecticut Pastel Society’s Purely Pastel, the Cape Cod Art Association’s All Cape Cod, where she was awarded an Honorable Mention, and the UArt Online Show. 2016 national juried exhibits include the New Hampshire Pastel Society’s It’s Pastel at Discover Portsmouth, Portsmouth, NH, the Connecticut Pastel Society’s Renaissance in Pastel at the Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, CT, and in the UArt Online Pastel Show, the All Cape Cod at the Cape Cod Art Association (Honorable Mention), the 50th Anniversary Summer Juried Exhibit at the Falmouth Art Center. As well, she exhibited in the Cape Cod Art Center.

ART EDUCATION:

Studied Under:

Cynthia Crimmin
Dawn Emerson
Margaret Dyer
Jeanne Rosier Smith
Jacob Aguiar
Debora Stewart
Jeanne Tangney
Michelle Mozzone
Jen Evenhus
Tom Christopher
Tony Allain
Ed Chesnovitch
Barbara Jaenicke
Aline Ordman
Christine Ivers
Jean Hirons
Marla Baggetta
Stan Sperlak
Doug Dawson
Christine Bodnar
Deborah Quinn Munson
Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Odin Smith

EXHIBITIONS:
Juried Shows

2020 Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s 123rd Annual Open Exhibit, The National Arts Club, NY, NY
2019 All New England, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 Order and Chaos, Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA
2019 Proud 2 Be An American, Cotuit Center For The Arts, Cotuit, MA
2019 The National, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 Open Pastel Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club, 47 Fifth Ave. @ 12th, NY, NY
2019 Serious Fun, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2019 The Works, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
2018 Light In A Dark Season, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2018 All New England, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2018 Summer Small Works Show, National Association of Women Artists, NY, NY
2018 For Pastels Only, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
2018 Purely Pastel, Connecticut Pastel Society Online Show
2018 Baystate Open, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2018 The National, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2017 All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2017 Pastel Society of North Carolina, Pure Color, Online International Juried Exhibit
2017 Renaissance in Pastel, Connecticut Pastel Society, Arts Center, East, Vernon, CT
2017 Pastels Only, Pastel Society of Maine,Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME
2017 UArt Online Pastel Competition
2017 Purely Pastel, Connecticut Pastel Society, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
2017 For Pastels Only, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
2017 All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2017 Artist’s Vision, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 It's Pastel, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Discover Portsmout Center, Portsmouth, NH
2016 2016 Renaissance in Pastel, Connecticut Pastel Society, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2016 UArt 2016 Online Pastel Competition
2016 Summer Juried Exhibit, Falmouth Artists Guild, Falmouth, MA 2016 Abstracts, Cape Cod art Association, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable , MA
2015 It's Pastel, Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH
2015 The National, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MAl
2015 For Pastels Only, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
2014 All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2014 The National, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

Non Juried Shows

2019 UArt Fall Online Show
2019 Blick Online Pet Portraits
2018 Members Online Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
2018 Empowering Women, Sandwich Arts Alliance
2018 Members Show, Sandwich Art Alliance
2018 Master Artists Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center
2018 Local Color, South Shore Art Center
2017 Members Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
2017 Treasures, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2017 Master Artists Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 Members Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA
2016 Master Artists Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 Abstracts, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 Artist's Choice, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2015 Members Show, North River Arts Society, Marshfield, MA
2015 Members Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Mashpee Public Library, Mashpee, MA
2014 Members Show, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Snow Library, Orleans,
2014 Cotuit Student Exhibit, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2009 Guyer Art Barn

PRIZES AND AWARDS:

2019 Honorable Mention in Pastel, All New England, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 First Prize In Pastel, TheNational, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 Terry Ludwig Award, 2019 Open Pastel Exhibition, Salmagundi Art Club, NY,NY
2018 Honorable Mention in Pastel, All New England, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2018 Honorable Mention in Pastel, Baystate Open, Cape Cod ArtCenter Barnstable, MA
2017 First Prize in Pastel, All New England, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2017 Pastel Society of North Carolina Award at the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod For Pastels Only, Yarmouth, MA
2017 Honorable Mention, All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2016 Honorable Mention, All Cape Cod, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2015 Connecticut Pastel Society Award at It’s Pastel, Portsmouth, NH
2015 First Prize in Pastel, The National, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

PUBLICATIONS:

2020 Cheap Joe's Art Stuff Catalog
Gail Sibley’s How To Pastel, January 2018, featured in December’s Pastel Treasures

MEMBERSHIPS:

Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod (Former Board Member)
Pastel Society of America
Cape Cod Art Association (Master Artist)
Connecticut Pastel Society (Signature Member)
Cotuit Center for the Arts
Cape Cod Museum of Art

GALLERIES:

Represented by Eastwind Gallery, Orleans, MA