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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Insights Literary/Art Journal

Welcome to the Solon Center for Research and Publishing first issue of Insights Literary/Art Journal. Stories from authors published and unpublished will debut here. Original art will accompany the stories. Most literary journals don’t have much art. We believe combining the two is the best way to make each medium come to life, which enhances the viewer’s/reader’s experience. We’ll host contests, working with Gallery Fukurou, of Rockland, Maine and the Maine publisher Polar Bear & Company. ISSUE 1 includes six short stories with art from COASTAL MAINE IN WORDS AND ART and other books, sutras of philosophical dimensions, a memoir from a boat builder’s WINTER APPRENTICE, two children’s poems, and two Maine based serialized novels of intrigue and insights. MONTHLY CONTESTS: We invite you […]

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Coming Soon: Insights Literary/Art Journal

Next May, the Solon Center for Research and Publishing will announce its first literary/art journal. Stories from authors published and unpublished will debut here. Original art will accompany the stories. Most literary journals don’t have much art. We believe combining the two is the best way to make each medium come to life, which enhances the viewers/readers experience. We’ll host contests, working with Gallery Fukurou, of Rockland, Maine and the Maine publisher Polar Bear & Company. Stay tuned!

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Fukurou’s book writing/art contest exhibit Sept 14 in Rockland

The front cover of Coastal Maine in Words and Art – Photo titled Vanishing Point by Yohaku Yorozuya. And the back cover – Moonstruck by Ramona du Houx – the other the artist in the book/exhibit. From Maine Insights News: Winners of Maine’s Solon Center for Research and Publishing’s first book writing/art contest announced — Exhibit opening September 14th at Fukurou Gallery in Rockland See the article HERE. The front cover of Coastal Maine in Words and Art – Photo titled Vanishing Point by Yohaku Yorozuya. And the back cover – Moonstruck by Ramona du Houx – the other the artist in the book/exhibit.                                   The Solon Center for Research and Publishing […]

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Book writing/art contest exhibit opening September 14th at Fukurou Gallery in Rockland

From Maine Insights News: Winners of Maine’s Solon Center for Research and Publishing’s first book writing/art contest announced — Exhibit opening September 14th at Fukurou Gallery in Rockland See the article HERE. The front cover of Coastal Maine in Words and Art – Photo titled Vanishing Point by Yohaku Yorozuya. And the back cover – Moonstruck by Ramona du Houx – the other the […]

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Exhibit – Holding up the Sky – honors the Maine’s First Peoples

At Maine Historical Society in Portland — April 17, 2019  By Ramona du Houx Maine Historical Society’s (MHS)  new exhibition, Holding up the Sky, at their Portland gallery runs from April 12 to February 1, 2020. It honors and explores the experiences of the First People of Maine — the Wabanaki, which includes the Abenaki, Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot people.  […]

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SugarWood exhibit in Farmington of Ramona du Houx’s work open!

New mystical watercolor like photographs at Sugarwood Gallery by Ramona du Houx From Daily Bulldog Starting on Nov. 8 the SugarWood Gallery, of Farmington, will feature new fine art photography of Ramona du Houx. The open house will be held on Sunday, Nov. 25 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Ramona du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking a sense of wonder. Many have found they relieve stress, as they are relaxing, thought proving and mystical. Her new work will include images of landscapes of Maine’s Western Mountains, fields and flowers created with her technique she first discovered in 1979. “I’m excited and honored to be showing my work at SugarWood. Many of the new […]

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Professor Pasztory launches book— Exile Space: Encountering Ancient and Modern America in Memoir, Essay, and Fiction

From Maine Insights Newsmagazine: Former Deer Isle Professor Pasztory launches book— Exile Space: Encountering Ancient and Modern America in Memoir, Essay, and Fiction Because of her groundbreaking research book now being considered for Pulitzer By Ramona du Houx Professor Esther Pasztory has written a new book, Exile Space: Encountering Ancient and Modern America in Memoir, Essay, and Fiction. This is her 14th book, and her most personal. It comes at a time when PBS is doing a series on Native Americans and tells more about these fascinating cultures that lived in harmony with nature. Pasztory is an art historian, specializing in Teotihuacan, Aztec, and Art Theory, as well as being a writer. She is a Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor Emerita of Pre-Columbian Art History […]

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Mystical photographs at Sugarwood Gallery by Ramona du Houx

Mystical watercolor like photographs at Sugarwood Gallery by Ramona du Houx From the Daily Bulldog in Farmington: Ramona du Houx creates fine art photography that looks like watercolor paintings evoking a sense of wonder. Many have found they relieve stress, as they are relaxing, thought proving and mystical.Her new work will include images of landscapes of Maine’s Western Mountains, fields and […]

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Ramona du Houx’s art

I try to bring the beauty, magic and mystery of nature to viewers by amplifying nature’s essence. Putting the images into categories was extremely challenging as everything is interconnected. Please enjoy the work and check back for more additions regularly added. All images are limited editions for sale and represent over 35 years of work. To purchase any of these images please contact me at duhoux2@tds.net. I’m represented by Gallery Storks in Tokyo, Japan and Fukurou of Rockland, Maine. TO VIEW THE ART: Please click on the thumbnail below to see a larger version of the work. Nature reveals herself   There are no boundaries in nature, with everyone and everything interconnected. Where a river stops cannot be defined, nor […]

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N.C. Wyeth: Poems of American Patriotism at Farnsworth Art Museum

From Maine Insights  by Ramona du Houx The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland presented an opening lecture the museum’s Curator Michael Komanecky by for the exhibition “N.C. Wyeth: Poems of American Patriotism.” Wyeth’s illustrations in two anthologies were inspired by Americans’ long-standing familiarity with and appreciation for poetry, and in particular its love of works by the so-called “Schoolroom Poets” […]

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EXILE  SPACE: ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT AND MODERN AMERICA by Esther Pasztory

STONE AGE CIVILIZATIONS IN THE NEW WORLD More about Esther Pasztory — Esther Pasztory is Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor emeritus of pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She has published extensively in the field of pre-Columbian art, including the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacán and the Aztecs. Born in Hungary, she emigrated to the United States […]