Penny Markley Artworks Gallery

• Surf's Up

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This painting was a result of visiting Pemaquid Point after a storm that resulted in magnificent surf.

• Mill Pond, East Boothbay

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Painting of the mill pond in East Boothbay, Maine, in Winter. The mill pond is in the foreground. Beyond a backlit building and trees on a strip of land, the ocean cam be seen.

• View from Morse Mountain

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20

• Mountain and Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 14 x 18 x .75

• View from Abol Bridge

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x .75

• Green Island from Grimes Cove

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12

• View up the River

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• The White Lilac Bush

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Rosa Rugosa

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Red Barn with Lupine

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• Pinky Schooner

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 9

• Hendricks Head Light Sunset

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. The view of this lighthouse is more interesting at low or mid-time, which it is in this painting. I have painted this scene plein air several times. This painting was done using a photographic refe…

• Sunflower Patch

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. This was painted plein air at a farm in Belgrade, Maine. There were lots of possible subjects, but the sunflowers and barn caught my eye.

• Quiet Corner of Kidney Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This is a painting of a shallow corner of Kidney Pond in Baxter Park. It is called the Moose View because moose are often seen their feeding on the plants growing under water. There is a good view…

• A change of Direction

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 24. I saw this view from Fort Edgecomb in Edgecomb, Maine. The lobster boat was changing direction after having pulled the traps attached to a buoy. I loved the wake created by the boat doing a u-turn.

• C & O Canal

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. My husband and I went on a bike trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This image was painted from reference photos and memories of that trip. The shelf on the edge was where the mule and driver wa…

• Wiscasset Fall Marsh

  Oil, Panel, 11" x 14". This is a plein air painting of a tidal marsh in Wiscasset, Maine. I love marshes for the variety of their texture and colors as the tides and seasons change and for the benefits they provide to t…

• Monhegan Sunset

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24

• Quiet Corner of Kidney Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16

• Monhegan Lighthouse

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20

• From the End of Nickercane Island

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14

• Fall Fresh Water Marsh

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A fall painting of a marsh near where I live. I have painted it many times since it is different every time depending on the season, the weather, or the time of day.

• The Ice is Going
• Norcross Point Gazebo

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". The gazebo is in a town park on Lake Maranacook in Winthrop, Maine, where I live. It's a lovely place in any season, but I particularly like it in the Winter. The light on a clear day in February…

• Five Island Morning

  Oil, 11 x 14

• A Perfect Day

  Oil, 11 x 14

• Moose Family

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. A painting of a scene I witnessed while plein air painting in Baxter Park in Maine. It was a small shallow pond known to be a place where moose hang out. While I was painting there more than a doze…

• Pownalborough Courthouse

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14

• The Friars

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Three Weeks Later

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10

• Mt Washinton from Morrison Heights 4-25-20

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10

• Snow's Almost Gone

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Mt. Washington from Morrison Heights-=4-1-2020

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Big and Strong

  Oil, 18 x 24

• Don't Be Greedy

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 18. This was based on a scene in Galveston. Families fed bread to gulls for entertainment. There was an interesting sky

• Welcome-to-Sandy-Stream-Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. I was painting with artist friends at Sandy Stream Pond in Baxter Park in Maine. There is a great view of the North Basin on Mt. Katahdin. While on our way back to the car after several hours of pa…

• Sturtevant Hill View Again

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This was painted at the same view point where I have painted other paintings. It was an October afternoon that was beginning to cloud over. The light was still interesting and I was taken with th…

• Steuertevant Hill View

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10". A small plein air painting of a view I like in preparation for a plein air workshop.

• Above Torsey Pond

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. This was painted from a hill overlooking a corner of Torsey Pond. I started the painting in September, but brought it back to paint over it in November when there was more variety in the color of th…

• Mistress

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24". While walking in Rockland, Maine, I came across this crew working on the sailboat, Mistress. The light on the men on ladders captured my interest. I photographed the scene but didn’t notice the w…

• Wilson Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 24. This is a fresh water marsh a few miles from where I live. I love the contrasting varieties of green and the different textures of the grasses and trees. Since it is fresh water, I don't have to w…

• Marsh in the Morning

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 24. I painted this while parked beside Route 1 in Edgecomb, Maine. It is a marsh in a cove of the Sheepscot River. The tide was just right to make it interesting, although one has to paint quickly to…

• Foggy Day on Burnt Head

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. I was painting from Burnt Head on Monhegan Island looking toward White Head. The fog was such that sometimes it completely disappeared, but I persisted and could see the scene I wanted often enough…

• Puddle Ducks

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 18. I visited this farm with a plein air painting group this past early fall. I was struck by the white ducks in the very dark doorway framed by the old barn. I wasn't pleased with the composition of t…

• Late Winter Marsh

  Oil, Paper, 12" x 16". It was late winter and the ice was going out of this small marshy pond. I liked the contrast between the snow, the colorful marsh grasses , and the reflections in the water. I painted a small sket…

• Evening at Schoodic Point

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20". I spent a week painting with a group in Acadia National Park while staying on the Schoodic Peninsula, which is part of the park. I saw this lovely evening view and had to paint it.

• Lighthouse Evening, Monhegan

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". The lighthouse, keeper's house, and museum viewed from Horns Hill on Monhegan Island in evening light. It has just gotten dark enough to see the light. In the continental USA, shipping is include…

• Sheepscot Spring Greens

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. I originally painted this scene during the fall. I came back to the same place with a plein air group and repainted it in spring colors.

• Harbor by Moonlight

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. Painting of a harbor by moonlight inspired by an evening walk by Southwest Harbor, Maine.

• Island School

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. This is a view of the Monhegan Island School from a cottage where I have been to paint every June for at least a dozen years. There are under 100 hear round residents but still enough children to m…

• Little Cobbessee Marsh 2020

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Canvas on wood panel. This is a plein air painting of a marsh I have painted many times since it is interesting in any season and near where I live.

• Icy Trees

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. These trees are beside the driveway to my house. The morning after an ice storm the backlit trees just glistened. Because I couldn't stop and paint right then, I took a photo with my phone and mailed…

• Blackhead from Monhegan

  Oil, Paper, 9 x 12. This small painting of Blackhead on Monhegan Island, Maine, was mostly done on location while I was sitting on Whitehead. I added a few small gulls and straightened the horizon recently. Shipping is…

• Big and Strong

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. We were bike riding in Vermont when we saw these handsome beasts grazing by the field. I wanted to paint them but couldn't do it then, so I stopped to really look and to take several reference phot…

• Welcome to Sandy Stream Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". Painting of a cow moose that appeared while I was painting by Sandy Stream Pond in Baxter Park, Maine. She walked by about twelve feet from where I was painting and then stood and looked at me fo…

• The Top of Lighthouse Hill, Monhegan

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. This the lighthouse and associated buildings as seen from Horns Hill across a valley in early evening light. I was attracted by the warm light on the buildings and the clouds. The price includes th…

• Where's the Grass

  Oil, Canvas, -20 x -20. I was driving to the coast to paint in early Spring. As I was coming down the hill in Dresden Mills, Maine, I saw the horse standing in the snow. The overcast sky, the trees, and the barn made su…

• Maine-Farm-House

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A plein air group I belong to was invited to paint at a farm in a town near where I live in Maine. It was early Fall and a lovely day to be outside painting. The farm was owned by a fellow painter…

• Sheep at Sturtevant Hill

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. View painted plein air ( except for sheep) on a early fall day.

• Mill Pond, East Boothbay

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This is a plein air painting done when I participated in the "Stroke of Art," a week long plein air painting festival which was part of Boothbay Harbor's "Harbor Fest." The mill pond is view from a…

• Monhegan Island Home

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Every June I spend a week on Monhegan Island off the Maine coast. I have admired this house and its rose bushes as I walk it. I loved the late afternoon light o the scene and wanted to capture it.…

• Time to Relax

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. I painted this on the lawn of a charming cottage in Boothbay, Maine. Plein Air Painters of Maine had been invited to paint there. It was a lovely summer afternoon. I loved the roses, the Adirondack…

• Sheep at Sturtevant Hill

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. This was painted on location on a lovely early Fall afternoon. Sheep wandering in and out of the view, so I took multiple photos so I could add them later. They wouldn't stay still long enough for m…

• Nickercane Island

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Looking at a small island in Boothbay that can be accessed by a footbridge. It was a lovely June day.

• Dont Be Greedy

  Canvas, 14" x 18". My husband and I were walking on the beach in Galveston, Texas. The sun was low causing brilliant reflections in the water and on the wet sand. This little girl was feeding bread to the seagulls. They…

• Hendricks Head Light 2

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Towards the end of a week of painting in the Boothbay Harbor area at event called "Stroke of Art," I spent a morning painting at Hendricks Head Beach. The low tied with the rocks, sand, and sea wee…

• Katahdin-from-the-Moose-View-Baxter-Park

  Acrylic, Canvas, 12 x 16. This plein air painting was done during a painting trip with fellow artists to Baxter State Park in Maine. We were staying at Kidney Pond camps. A path from the cabins lead to a corner of the p…

• Where's the Grass?

  Canvas, 20 x - x 3/4". It was late Fall when I was driving down a hill into the village of Dresden Mills, Maine. I saw this barn I had passed many times with a horse in the snowy pasture. The dark red barn with the dark…

• Togue Pond View

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This is a plein air painting of Mt. Katahdin in Baxter Park in Maine. The top of Katahdin is the end of Appalachian Trail Baxter Park is one of my favorite places in the world. I started going th…

• Mid-tide

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. It was a bright September morning and I was free to paint on Southport Island. I found a lovely spot right beside the bridge off the island where I could safely park and enjoy the small passageway…

• Old Sentinel

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11" x 3/4". This dead tree was encountered on a path around Monhegan Island, Maine. I loved its silvery color in the June sunshine with the dark spruce trees behind and the sea beyond. Shipping is inc…

• Blooms Above the River

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 18". Iris blooming in a garden above the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, Maine. It was painted plein air during a lovely early summer day.

• From the Ferry

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. We enjoyed the afternoon light during the ferry ride to Vinalhaven from Rockland. Shipping to the continental US is included in the price. For other destinations please call.

• Cary Memorial Library

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 11". Painting of the town library in Wayne, Maine, called the Carey Memorial Library.

• Gull-Rock,-Monhegan

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. I was painting on Monhegan Island, Maine, on a lovely June afternoon. About the time I was finishing my friend with whom I was painting told me to look westward over my shoulder. The sky was dark w…

• Mill Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This was painted in Jerhico, Vermont near a picturesque old mill. The mill was very tall and vertical, and I couldn't figure out how to make an interesting composition our of it. I decided that the…

• Little Marsh in Spring

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. The partially ice-covered small pond not far from where I live made an interesting subject. I could paint it comfortably from my car, sheltered from wind and cold.

• Looking-Towards-Sand-Beach

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. This is a view in Acadia National Park from a walk along Park Loop Road looking back toward Sand Beach. The Bee Hive Mountain is on the left. Part of the scene is bathed in warm late afternoon ligh…

• Katahdin from Daicy Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. Mount Katahdin in Baxter Park in Maine as seen in evening light from Daicey Pond Camps. Shipping included in price in continental US.

• Sheepscot in Fall

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Sheepscot, Maine, is a lovely village where Dyer Brooks joins the Sheepscot River among some lovely salt water marshes. The marsh grasses change color with the seasons. Shipping in the continental…

• Looking Toward the Mainland

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16 x 3/4. For at least a dozen years I have been going to Monhegan Island, Maine to paint for a week in June. I was attracted to the view from Lighthouse Hill on Monhegan Island, Maine, looking towards…

• Old Birch and Brook

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. The painting was done in Baxter State Park in Maine at Avalanche Brook in October during a plein air event run by North Light Gallery in Millinocket, Maine. It shows a brook in the woods where sunli…

• Tide's Out

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 20" x 3/4". This is a painting of Lucia Beach at Birch Point State Park in Owls Head, Maine. It was a cool Spring day at almost dead low tide. I loved the reflections on the wet sand. Shipping is incl…

• Sheepscot Spring Greens

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. This is one of my favorite places to paint any time of year. Shipping in the continental US is included in the price. For all other destinations, please call me.

• Mill Stream

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. Painting of a stream behind an old mill in Jerhico, Vermont, done on a lovely Sunday morning while I was waiting for a "wet paint" show to open in the afternoon. I had work in the show painted the…

• Androscoggin Spring Greens

  Oil, 11 x 14. This was painted from an island in the Androscoggin River in Turner, Maine. It was a lovely spring day, and I met some friends to paint with. I loved the backlit trees.

• Late-Winter-Evening

  Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. A painting of evening light in February as seen from my dining room window in Winthrop, Maine. Shipping in the continental United States is included in the price.

• Bright-Beech

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. The sun hit the beech leaves remaining on a little tree in my yard. The beech leaves which often don't fall off until Spring, lend interest and color to Winter woods. Shipping is included in the pr…

• Double Top

  Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4. This is a painting of Mount Double Top in Baxter State Park in Maine. I did a plein air painting from the bridge over a stream on a lovely September day when I was on a week long painting tri…

• Weather's Changing

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 20" x 3/4. This a nearby freshwater marsh where I have painted several times. It was late September in central Maine. The leaves were starting to change and the marsh grass was a lovely gold. The even…

• Such Bright Color

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16" x 3/4". This was painted plein air in early October. I was traveling with two friends from Schoodic Peninsula where we were staying as participants in a week long painting event. We agreed to stop…

• Railroad Crossing

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11" x 3/4". This was painted at a railroad crossing in Bartlett, New Hampshire. There was a tourist train running back and forth between North Conway and Bartlett. It passed by about every 40 minutes.…

• Cod Cove

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16" x 3/4". This is a painting of a lovely late summer salt water marsh at near high tide in a cove of the Sheepscot River in Edgecomb, Maine. Shipping is included in the price for the continental U.S…

• Approaching Storm (studio)

  Oil, Canvas, 18 " x 24" x 3/4 ". This is based on a smaller plein air painting of a Maine marsh in the evening as a storm approaches. Egrets have taken flight. I painted the smaller painting very quickly to catch the ch…

• Late Afternoon at Togue Pond

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 16". This is the view of Katahdin from Togue Pond near the gate house to Baxter Park painted in the afternoon and the light was starting to fade.