intelligent things make it into my inbox from time to time:
“…makes one wonder whether this is a matter of linked creative cells
or perhaps the existence of a cluster of cells that also cause suicidal substance-addictive bipolar (schizoaffective) personalities that make the subjects unsuitable for cohabitation or even more than the slightest social contact but mess with the cluster and all of humanity will be living in pretty villages, involved in tedious and repetitive Hi How are You Doing? lives, that exclude any curiosity and longing for adventure and revolving around just one routine, expressed by the ever-observant Parisians as
metro-boulot-dodo
commute-job-sleep”
January 8, 2012
Creativity.
December 14, 2011
Figure study, 12/13/11
Young Woman with tattoo
Pencil study from a group that meets Tuesday evenings in Bangor.
December 12, 2011
October 27, 2011
Mink.
Mink
Painting this morning on the shoreline of Eagle Lake, I heard some splashing coming from next to my easel. I grabbed my camera and snapped a fuzzy picture of Neovison vison, American Mink.
October 25, 2011
Valley Cove Sketch
Valley Cove, ANP, oil/panel, 11 x 14 inches
I’ve been out painting on the shores of Valley Cove on Somes Sound recently. Somes Sound is the only fjord on the east coast of the United States. There have been bald eagles and ravens out there to keep me entertained while I paint.
October 22, 2011
Figure drawing Saturdays at Waterfall Arts
I’ve enjoyed spending Saturday mornings down at Waterfall Arts in Belfast studying the figure. It’s been far too long since doing any serious figurative work but it’s quite a blast.
September 15, 2011
Ancient History
oil/linen, 16 x 14 in.
This older painting showed up on artnet recently. It was painted around 1986 at Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth, ME. Amy and I were living in the Portland area at the time. Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: Sunday, August 28, 2011 Summer Fine Art & Antiques Auction
August 18, 2011
Robert Pollien Feature: Tuesday, August 23rd Dowling Walsh Gallery
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Robert Pollien will be featured at Dowling Walsh Gallery from Tuesday, August 23rd through Sunday, September 18th. There will be a reception on Tuesday, August 23rd from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
August 5, 2011
Wave Study, fog
Wave Study, oil/linen, 10x15 in.
I’ve been rethinking the way that I begin paintings. I have done away with any preliminary drawing on the canvas and go straight into full-bodied paint.
July 26, 2011
Hokey Pokey
Hokey Pokey, oil/panel, 14 x 14 in.
Possibly a corruption of the Italian ecco un poco – “here is a little”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Pokey