Greta Van Campen
Transience
June 3 – 25, 2022
Greta Van Campen
From Fire Islands Lobster Co., 2023
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
Greta Van Campen
Rockland Harbor Park, Winter, 2023
Acrylic on panel
24" x 48"
Greta Van Campen
Another Time, 2022
Acrylic on panel
29 5/8" x 59 5/8"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Sisters (2), 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
Greta Van Campen
Sisters (1), 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
The Color of the Sky One Night, 2022
Acrylic on panel
20" x 28"
Greta Van Campen
St. George River 1, 2 and 3, 2022
Acrylic on panel
8" x 8" each
Greta Van Campen
Mimi's Yellow Sky, 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Morning Light Blanketing Childhood Memories, also Time to Clean Up the Gardens, 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 16 1/2"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
The Day We Tried to go to Islesboro, 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Mark Island from Memory, 2022
Acrylic on panel
20" x 20"
Greta Van Campen
Playing on the Lake, 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 30"
Greta Van Campen
Lost and Found Horizon, 2022
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Red Berries, Round the Mountain Trail, 2022
Acrylic on linen
30" x 40"
Greta Van Campen
Woven Sunset, Curtis Island, 2022
Acrylic on linen
24" x 48"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
June and July, 2021
Acrylic on panel
36" diameter
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Tip of Mosquito Island, 2021
Acrylic on panel
16 1/4" x 25 1/4"
Greta Van Campen
Imagined Seascape, 2AM with Nellie, 2021
Acrylic on panel
8 1/2" x 30"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Mid-September Garden from the Window, 2019
Acrylic on panel
23" diameter
Greta Van Campen
Nighttime, Thomaston, 2021
Acrylic on panel
16 1/2" x 23"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Thomaston Harbor, 2020
Acrylic on linen
36" x 84"
Greta Van Campen
From Island Road, Spruce Head, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
From Waterman's Beach, 2021
Acrylic on panel
9 5/8" x 24 3/8"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
From Cadillac Mountain, 2021
Acrylic on linen
36" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Islands, Port Clyde, 2021
Acrylic on linen
24" x 48"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Crescent Beach, Christmas Eve, 2020
Acrylic on panel
14 1/2" x 49"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Ash Point Preserve
Acrylic on panel
30" x 30"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Hurricane Island, Fog, 2020
Acrylic on linen
40" x 60"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Vinalhaven, Day 3
Acrylic on panel
14" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Crabapple with Double Blossoms, 2020
Acrylic on linen
28" x 51"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Summer Gathering
Acrylic on linen
36" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Wake, 2020
Acrylic on linen
24" x 48"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Sunset, Turkey Cove, 2020
Acrylic on panel
30" x 30"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Clearing Fog off Old Harbor
Acrylic on linen
18" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Islands on the Horizon
Acrylic on panel
16-1/4" x 49"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Sundown, Cape Rosier
Acrylic on panel
12 1/2" x 48 1/2"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
From the Rock, Vinalhaven
Acrylic on panel
9-5/8" x 24-1/4"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
View from the Rockland YMCA
Acrylic on panel
13-1/2" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
A Walk Along the Rocks, Indian Point
Acrylic on linen
24" x 48"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
View From Above
Acrylic on panel
20" x 32"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Yellow Morning, Rockland
Acrylic on panel
28" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Somebody Else's View
Acrylic on panel
20h x 30w in
SOLD
White Elephant, the iconic harborside hotel on Nantucket, is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a multi-million dollar makeover just in time for the 2023 summer season.
Original art peppers the property as a result of the hotel’s all-new Artist in Residency Program, which launched last year.
“New York based art consultant and curator Emily Santangelo worked closely with White Elephant’s owners, the Karp family, to create a residency made up of acclaimed artists from around the world,” hotel officials said in a statement. “The artists spent two weeks exploring the island to gather inspiration for their works, venturing to some parts of the island only accessible by boat.”
As a result, the property’s art includes watercolors of Nantucket flora by painter Mary Chandler, beachside photographs by photographer Thomas Jackson, landscape portraits by Maine-based painter Greta van Campen, and more.
Is a child whose parents are successful artists inclined to become an artist, and when this happens, why does it happen? Is it genetic or the result of being raised by artists in a home full of art?
In the case of the Van Campens, it was probably a bit of both—nature plus nurture. Artists Tim and Susan raised two daughters in a Thomaston, Maine, home filled with art, and both parents worked full-time in home studios, thereby immersing their girls in that world. The family tree also includes both artists and art lovers.
When confronted with the beauty of Maine’s coast, most painters, whether working plein-air or in the studio, respond with loaded brushes and an impressionistic style that well captures atmospheric conditions and light reflections. Not so Greta Van Campen. The young midcoast native has developed a style of her own that is all flat, angular planes and smoothly applied paint. At least at first glance.
In the fall of 2010, I left my teaching job in Chicago and moved back to Maine. I wanted to focus more on my art, but wasn’t really sure how to do that. A friend of mine told me about people raising money through Kickstarter. I decided to try it and called my project “Greta Paints America.” I wanted to visit all 50 states and paint along the way.
The work of Maine-based artist Greta Van Campen provides an interesting counterpoint to that of Stinson and Kitchel. Although Van Campen’s work also draws on the great Western tradition of exploration, she approaches the subject as both a young painter and as a non-Westerner. Where Stinson and Kitchel know the region intimately, Van Campen is viewing it with fresh eyes — and usually from behind the wheel of a car. Over the course of two years encompassing six trips to each of the 50 states, Van Campen traveled by plane, train and automobile, logging 50,000 miles on her car, sending sketches to her 86 sponsors, bartering art- work for mechanical repairs and adopting a puppy along the way.
October 10, 2012 – Greta Van Campen was interviewed by The Courier-Gazette and The Camden Herald in conjunction with her show “Painting America,” on view at Dowling Walsh Gallery until November 12.
Greta Van Campen is a painter from Thomaston, Maine known for her contemporary hard-edged style. She comes from a family of artists and grew up painting beside her mother. Greta continued her studies in visual art at Bowdoin College and now lives in Thomaston, Maine.
Van Campen has had solo exhibitions at Gallery BOM, Boston, ME; Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA, and Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL, and has been included in group shows at Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME; ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME; and Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, among others.
