Anne
Boucher’s watercolor
and acrylic paintings draw upon the unique beauty of Cape
Cod and the New England Coastal region — the beloved
fishing wharves of Provincetown, tucked away flower gardens,
weathered old buildings full of memory and character, and
the expansive, ever-changing and exquisitely beautiful shorelines
and bays.
With an inspired sensitivity to her
subject matter, Boucher in her paintings captures the fleeting
moments between dusk and dark, the movements and intricacies
of water and sky, or a slant of light on a Cape landscape
or architecture.
Her process begins with explorations
on bike, on foot, or in her kayak. “I try not to go
out with a pre-conceived idea, but rather a willingness to
wander, to let myself get caught up in the spirit of where
I am.”
“Standing knee deep in the bay,
the tide receding, the colors deepening, and the quiet evening
settling in — this is how my paintings begin, with
moments like these.”
Boucher’s work is included in
the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art (Dennis,
MA), Duxbury Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA), and the Cahoon
Museum of American Art (Cotuit, MA). She has won numerous “Best
of Show” and “First Place” awards, and
her work is collected nationally and worldwide. The Cahoon
Museum of American Art and the Southern Vermont Art Center
(Manchester, VT) have both held solo exhibitions of her paintings.
Additionally, she has been represented in solo and group
exhibitions at many fine regional galleries and museums.
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