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
" 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
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