Nina Jerome working during a residency at Heliker-LaHotan, Great Cranberry Island, photo credit, Pablo Ocampo.
A long-time resident of Maine, Nina Jerome finds inspiration for her work in both natural and constructed environments, drawing and painting in series that examine visual variations of place. For her the painting process conveys her personal direction through the land as she witnesses its light, movement, and changes.
Jerome spends the warmer months in coastal Maine, a rich visual resource with its undeveloped shoreline and wide-ranging tidal fluctuations. She has also explored sense-of-place in other Maine areas, relating her landscape interest to her personal experience. Having completed residencies in Iceland, Virginia, and two favorite Maine islands, she has extended that range beyond her place of residence. Jerome has created paintings for fourteen public art projects in Maine including a series of six triptychs for the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Rhode Island School of Design, Jerome taught drawing and painting at the University of Maine for twenty-seven years. She has also taught painting and drawing workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Craft and Monson Arts.
Representation
Jerome is represented in Maine by Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, and Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill.
“The Nature of Water” a show of Icelandic landscapes done during a 2018 residency in Iceland will open at Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth on June 10 and run through July 23, 2022.
Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine features work from Jerome’s “Quarry Rain” and “Icelandic Waterfall” series in a group show titled “Future Perfect” from May 25 - June 18, 2022.
Entangled, an exploration of invasive vines and complex growth was exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor in 2019. Entangled Space, additional work from the series, was exhibited at Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth in the fall of 2019.