These people that complain about this video??why are they watching it to begin with…don’t press the button..don’t watch it…most people will watch…God bless those that find this video a true gem.. I loved it…I will watch it again and again…thank you
This is a wonderful documentary. Living in the UK, it's the first time I have come across Monhegan Island. So pleased there are still places like this. Bravo to all the artists featured here and thank you for introducing me to this special place.
I'am just about to turn 55 next month......I know so many women my age or older who have stopped doing what they love.....one day they just laid down their brushes or whatever medium they use and walked away from it... and not one of them could explain to me why...they just didn't want to do it any more.. So i don't understand what came over them and it worries me that it will happen to me one day.. I LOVED seeing these older women enjoying making art.. enjoying life.... thank you for this..
I am a 65 year old woman who is always seeking to learn about about older women who are creatively inspired and continue to live fully and stay engaged in their art and/or passion as they age. You have satisfied me this evening with the women in this documentary. I have been inspired! Much gratitude.
Cathleen, I am 79 and I am more enthused than ever, especially since I retired and have more time to devote to my art quilting. I learn something new all the time. Keep it up.
My Mother was an unsung artist, gifted with an observative eye, an infallible sense of colour, strength of vision, all subjugated to farm life and raising this errant child - I was fostered wonderfully in many arts, but it is in her presence as an artist I owe any of my inspirations. How great this homage to the marvellous ladies who endured all the prejudices and setbacks and managed to carry through! Bless.
"Being an artist, nobody cares if you paint - or not. So you have to care." Love this documentary - love that many of the women are my vintage or older - and their common message - needing to express their creativity, and falling in love with the island ...
Having been a visitor to the Island of Monhegan since 1995, I find this very wonderful. It's a nostalgic view back to a time that is increasingly fading, especially since many of the artists profiled have passed away. Seeing Frances Kornbluth is especially poignant, since we struck up a great friendship with her and her husband, Bud, over our many visits in the summer. I'm happy that this exists and documents such a lovely setting in the United States and the great women artists that painted there. Of course, they were not there year round, but they definitely contributed to the life of the island. I know we will return once the pandemic is "over," but until then, this is a lovely film to remind me of the many lovely times we spent there, often for a full week in one of the lovely rental houses. A truly inspirational place for artists and for anyone's soul.
Belo documentário. Sou do Brazil. Será que alguém teria aí nos Estados Unidos algum livro de arte para me doar? Pode ser usado. Livros de Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton, Alice Kent Stoddard, Charles Russell, etc. Obrigado pela atenção. Meu endereço é : Rua Benedita Augusta dos Santos 1035 Galo Branco , São José dos Campos-sp Brazil. CEP 12247510 Thanks Robina.
Such a great video! I love seeing how each artist is inspired by the island and how they create their work. Maine and Monhegan are on my list of places to visit for a painting and sketching trip
When I lived & wrote there with my young son in 1987, it was so very quiet and mystical magical -- nature on a grand rugged and on a delicate small scale in breathtaking harmony interplaying with THAT light. My son went to that one room schoolhouse with it's big windows onto the ocean; loved exploring Cathedral Woods with those beautiful local children. Thank U Monhegan Island, may those noisy golf carts go away.
I loved everything about this doc. So inspiring and liberating. I appreciated the ladies different styles. Room for everyone. Very well done. Thank you.
I do hope by the time I make it Monhegan Island, it is still as charming and rustic as it appears in this documentary. It seems to be a magical place where one could quietly lose track of the day and enjoy nature in solitude. The women artists are quite fortunate and oh so talented. I will put this on my list of places I must visit in America.
So intimidating and inspiring at the same time, as a relatively new artist in Maine with no formal art school training and winging it I appreciate and value these all the beautiful works. I paint for myself and that is what helps me move through my life with meaning.
Creativity must be for the self. While its heady moments of inspiration, of divine madness keep us going, the rest is hard work and a lot of time alone.
Brought back fine memories of a visit there years ago. I was pleased to see Joanne Scott, who kindly let me and my husband stay in her house and discover the island. Hello Joanne! Patricia Thomas
This is my 2nd time watching. I really appreciate each artist's sharing about their life and experiences. It really makes me want to visit. Maybe some day. Love and blessings to you all. Thank you for producing this inspiring documentary.
I like Harlow paintings. I like to see the light and the ocean. Painting the cottage, I believe, it's a good thing. There are moments, things that happen at one time in our life, and been able to see the light around those moments, and capture it at that especific time, moment that will never appear the same in time is wonderful. It would be an inspiration in time of the future.
How exciting to have discovered this beautiful documentary on Monhegan and its Women Artists! I visited Monhegan every year in the autumn from 1970s to mid-1990s, my focus being the autumnal bird migration. Always stayed at The Trailing Yew. Such fond memories of so many people, including two of the artists profiled, and favourite places mentioned and pictured! The gaggle of golf carts on the paths was a shock, and when I was there don't think there was more than a couple of trucks on the island. Thank you for this rich reminder of a very happy portion of my personal past.
I got my Masters in Art awarded to me by me! I also gave myself a lifetime achievement award. one does not need to go to college to learn Art. just as Abraham Lincoln.
A great documentary about the women artists of Monhegan Island! Very very interesting! An inspiring and beautiful island too! Thank you for showing it!
I love this documentary, and I enjoyed every minute of it. All these wonderful artists who live on an island and create all that wonderful art. It doesn`t get better than this. That`s what dreams are made of. Gosh, I wish I could join them. Thank you very much for sharing :)
Thank you for sharing this documentary. Have shared it with our local artists. Absolutely engaging. How blessed you all are to have the freedom to follow your passions full time. Still working on that one.
I´d love EVERY place to be filled with artists like this! Let´s build islands of artists in each community, just imagine - everywhere easels and painters working on plainairs, everywhere musicians, sculptors, the only broody thing in such towns would be young experimental poets; happy, creative people running wild everywhere :-). Just a thought.
Thank you for a wonderful documentary. I found this very inspiring and interesting, what a blessing to have such a supportive and creative place to create and explore.
wHAT A WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY! BRILLIANT AND VARIED WORK,FANTASTIC WOMEN DOING THEIR OWN THING AND SPEAKING FROMTHE HEART. i WAS RIVETTED! HOW REFRESHING TO NOTHAVE SOME MAN SPOUTING OR WAVING HIS ARMS ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE PICTURES SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE THEM OR DRIVING ALONG IN A CAR! TYPICAL OF BBC ART PROGRAMMES, WHICH DRIVE ME INSANE. THIS WAS SO PREFRESHING, MOVING, INTERESTING AND EXACTLY HOW I'D LIKE ALL ART PROGRAMMES TO BE. tHANK YOU! A TREAT! MADE MY NIGHT.
Grazie per aver postato questo video che per me è molto motivante, spero un giorno di poter visitare la vostra bella isola e ammirare i vostri dipinti.
This was a nice place to be on this quiet Saturday night on Canada's west coast. I also paint and am of a similar age as these lovely souls. It's interesting that there was no talk of showing, galleries or sales. I find it so denigrating to art that money is so commonly esteemed to be co-equal with art and the hominess and goodness of this video is not spoiled with any of that nonsense!!
This was wonderful to watch. Thank you so much. I am wondering when this video was filmed as so many of the artists are my own age but one of them is closer to my parents age which would make her about 90 or so now. 💛 Ok at the end it says 2007
I agree with one person here. You (a man) open presenting all the men that Monhegan is famous for. W. T. F! I was so furious that I ALMOST did not watch the documentary. I’m glad to know the these women (yes, only the models are folks of color) were fulfilled by being painters. Good to see. Some are even very talented, on par with Henri and Kent. But don’t open with these famous men. Makes me boiling furious! It’s the same in my world - Calligraphers. So many talented calligraphers but the men are the “recognized” people.
Beautiful place and artwork, looks like a great place to visit. Choosing to include the complaints about the changes to the island by of some of the residents within the first five minutes of the film did not enhance the subject matter.
beautiful. i first learned of this island when researching the Wyeth family. being on an island is so freeing and yet you are captive also to the land.
Clearly you cannot make everyone happy……I just make myself happy…these negative people need to get creative….and start appreciating the differences on everything..
I just want to share in an art community. I work alone. I have to make, have to, can’t be happy or mentally healthy without making and creating. BUT, I am alone in it. I want to share.
We lived on Monhegan for a part of every Summer in the sixties and seventies. My husband proposed to me when we were standing in the Cathedral Woods. I am sorry to see golf carts and phone towers. What a shame. I’m glad I was there before power stations and golf carts. I am an artist too, by the way, with my start in Monhegan. I miss it.
You should be old enough to appreciate the fact that many of us are now disabled. The only way my sister, a Fine Arts major, can still visit inspiring places is with alternate transportation. Is she supposed to stay home so she won't offend you? I'm really shocked by the attitudes I've seen expressed here.
My goodness, is the island only for the young or able-bodied? Why all the golf-cart bashing? My sister has been a Fine Artist for decades, and is now severely physically disabled by kidney failure. Is she supposed to no longer travel lest she offend someone? I daresay some of you who mourn your childhood paradise may have intruded on others with your innocent chatter and giggles. Not everyone saw you through your mother's lenses. As a native Floridian, I have seen my home state destroyed by uncontrolled development in the last fifty years. Often, the people who move here complain about the things we loved the most. But I learned to live with the condos blocking access to the beach, the traffic, the last of endangered species. Age is the great equalizer. Live long enough, and you'll learn there are worse things in the landscape than a little golf cart purring along.
I thoroughly enjoyed this introduction to the island and this diverse group of women artists. But I am disappointed that all the artists you featured are painters. Are there truly no fiber artists on the island? No quilters, weavers, knitters, spinners, fabric artists, felters, textile/clothing artists? Seems like this island would inspire the use of a variety of media., not just oils, watercolor and ink.
You think this is bad, come to Florida. Almost everybody's from somewhere else, usually from New England, fleeing bad marriages, trading the ice for 115 degree days and hurricanes then complaining, and condos lining the beach til there's no longer access for someone who doesn't own oceanfront.
These people that complain about this video??why are they watching it to begin with…don’t press the button..don’t watch it…most people will watch…God bless those that find this video a true gem.. I loved it…I will watch it again and again…thank you
This is a wonderful documentary. Living in the UK, it's the first time I have come across Monhegan Island. So pleased there are still places like this. Bravo to all the artists featured here and thank you for introducing me to this special place.
I'am just about to turn 55 next month......I know so many women my age or older who have stopped doing what they love.....one day they just laid down their brushes or whatever medium they use and walked away from it... and not one of them could explain to me why...they just didn't want to do it any more.. So i don't understand what came over them and it worries me that it will happen to me one day.. I LOVED seeing these older women enjoying making art.. enjoying life.... thank you for this..
For me distractions...😞
I am a 65 year old woman who is always seeking to learn about about older women who are creatively inspired and continue to live fully and stay engaged in their art and/or passion as they age. You have satisfied me this evening with the women in this documentary. I have been inspired! Much gratitude.
Cathleen, I am 79 and I am more enthused than ever, especially since I retired and have more time to devote to my art quilting. I learn something new all the time. Keep it up.
Me, too, Cathleen. Agree!!
Just ran across this video..are you still painting?
My Mother was an unsung artist, gifted with an observative eye, an infallible sense of colour, strength of vision, all subjugated to farm life and raising this errant child - I was fostered wonderfully in many arts, but it is in her presence as an artist I owe any of my inspirations. How great this homage to the marvellous ladies who endured all the prejudices and setbacks and managed to carry through! Bless.
"Being an artist, nobody cares if you paint - or not. So you have to care."
Love this documentary - love that many of the women are my vintage or older - and their common message - needing to express their creativity, and falling in love with the island ...
That spoke to me too.
I watched this years go. It just popped up again and I’m so happy to watch it again.
Having been a visitor to the Island of Monhegan since 1995, I find this very wonderful. It's a nostalgic view back to a time that is increasingly fading, especially since many of the artists profiled have passed away. Seeing Frances Kornbluth is especially poignant, since we struck up a great friendship with her and her husband, Bud, over our many visits in the summer. I'm happy that this exists and documents such a lovely setting in the United States and the great women artists that painted there. Of course, they were not there year round, but they definitely contributed to the life of the island. I know we will return once the pandemic is "over," but until then, this is a lovely film to remind me of the many lovely times we spent there, often for a full week in one of the lovely rental houses. A truly inspirational place for artists and for anyone's soul.
These artists are my tribe. What a happy thought, to be a part of their world.
Belo documentário. Sou do Brazil. Será que alguém teria aí nos Estados Unidos algum livro de arte para me doar? Pode ser usado. Livros de Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton, Alice Kent Stoddard, Charles Russell, etc. Obrigado pela atenção. Meu endereço é : Rua Benedita Augusta dos Santos 1035 Galo Branco , São José dos Campos-sp Brazil. CEP 12247510 Thanks Robina.
Mine too
I loved this. I'm a 73 yr.old former Hollywood makeup artist that is a small-town fine artist.
Such a great video! I love seeing how each artist is inspired by the island and how they create their work. Maine and Monhegan are on my list of places to visit for a painting and sketching trip
When I lived & wrote there with my young son in 1987, it was so very quiet and mystical magical -- nature on a grand rugged and on a delicate small scale in breathtaking harmony interplaying with THAT light.
My son went to that one room schoolhouse with it's big windows onto the ocean; loved exploring Cathedral Woods with those beautiful local children.
Thank U Monhegan Island, may those noisy golf carts go away.
Golf carts and 4 wheelers roam around my home also... incessantly ... have people forgotten how to walk???
I loved everything about this doc. So inspiring and liberating. I appreciated the ladies different styles. Room for everyone. Very well done. Thank you.
Thank you for a wonderful film about these terrific women and this wonderful island. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I spent a couple of weeks there at a friend’s cottage. Lovely! And now I’m a few minutes in, and the friend is actually in the film! Wonderful!
I do hope by the time I make it Monhegan Island, it is still as charming and rustic as it appears in this documentary. It seems to be a magical place where one could quietly lose track of the day and enjoy nature in solitude. The women artists are quite fortunate and oh so talented. I will put this on my list of places I must visit in America.
So intimidating and inspiring at the same time, as a relatively new artist in Maine with no formal art school training and winging it I appreciate and value these all the beautiful works. I paint for myself and that is what helps me move through my life with meaning.
Wendy Gogan The BEST time of your creative career!
BELIEVE in yourself.
Go for it, Wendy! I am : )
Yes!
Creativity must be for the self. While its heady moments of inspiration, of divine madness keep us going, the rest is hard work and a lot of time alone.
"Never try to please other people. Only please yourself."
Brought back fine memories of a visit there years ago. I was pleased to see Joanne Scott, who kindly let me and my husband stay in her house and discover the island. Hello Joanne! Patricia Thomas
Lovely work and insight but why can’t we hear the speech without an instrumental recital playing at the same time?
Up lifting and inspiring to do what gives you the inner peace that is needed for a satisfying life. Thank you.
So many beautiful, talented and warm women on a beautiful island. My best regards sisters.
This is my 2nd time watching. I really appreciate each artist's sharing about their life and experiences. It really makes me want to visit. Maybe some day. Love and blessings to you all. Thank you for producing this inspiring documentary.
I like Harlow paintings. I like to see the light and the ocean. Painting the cottage, I believe, it's a good thing. There are moments, things that happen at one time in our life, and been able to see the light around those moments, and capture it at that especific time, moment that will never appear the same in time is wonderful. It would be an inspiration in time of the future.
I keep looking for that place to go to for inspiration for my art . And I think I may have just found it !!
Thank you. This is wonderfully inspiring and nourishing.
Thank you for producing this film of a beautiful island and town, and the beautiful inspired people creating beautiful art.
How exciting to have discovered this beautiful documentary on Monhegan and its Women Artists! I visited Monhegan every year in the autumn from 1970s to mid-1990s, my focus being the autumnal bird migration. Always stayed at The Trailing Yew. Such fond memories of so many people, including two of the artists profiled, and favourite places mentioned and pictured! The gaggle of golf carts on the paths was a shock, and when I was there don't think there was more than a couple of trucks on the island. Thank you for this rich reminder of a very happy portion of my personal past.
I got my Masters in Art awarded to me by me! I also gave myself a lifetime achievement award. one does not need to go to college to learn Art. just as Abraham Lincoln.
Mark Twain had a grade school education. He studied in libraries.
Never judge a man by his amount of education or his occupation. Mark Twain.
Beautiful documentary. Beautiful art, beautiful people.
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Wonderful documentary, wonderful artist. Very inspiring
A great documentary about the women artists of Monhegan Island! Very very interesting! An inspiring and beautiful island too! Thank you for showing it!
Beautiful, lovely, so good to see and hear about the women artists at Monhegan Island. Blessings and lots of love.
I love this documentary, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
All these wonderful artists who live on an island and create all that wonderful art. It doesn`t get better than this. That`s what dreams are made of.
Gosh, I wish I could join them.
Thank you very much for sharing :)
This was beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this documentary. Have shared it with our local artists. Absolutely engaging. How blessed you all are to have the freedom to follow your passions full time. Still working on that one.
Keep going creative one ❤️✨
Great watching this, very interesting to see and hear this community. Thank you.
This is wonderful! I love this documentary and have watched it more than once, finding new inspiration each time. Thank you for sharing 🙂
What a magical place. Would love to go visit the island of artists. 🎨🖌
Me too
I´d love EVERY place to be filled with artists like this! Let´s build islands of artists in each community, just imagine - everywhere easels and painters working on plainairs, everywhere musicians, sculptors, the only broody thing in such towns would be young experimental poets; happy, creative people running wild everywhere :-). Just a thought.
This is a wonderful documentary! Thank you!
Thank you for a wonderful documentary. I found this very inspiring and interesting, what a blessing to have such a supportive and creative place to create and explore.
A wonderful and truly inspiring documentary. Thank you!
Wonderful documentary. Very reflective and enjoyable. Thanks!
Been to Monhegan a couple times. Loved it!! Nice video, thanks.
How wonderful, magical, serene. Such talented and lucky women to have this opportunity 💕
Your houses really make me feel like I was there with you when you painted them.wow
wHAT A WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY! BRILLIANT AND VARIED WORK,FANTASTIC WOMEN DOING THEIR OWN THING AND SPEAKING FROMTHE HEART. i WAS RIVETTED! HOW REFRESHING TO NOTHAVE SOME MAN SPOUTING OR WAVING HIS ARMS ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE PICTURES SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE THEM OR DRIVING ALONG IN A CAR! TYPICAL OF BBC ART PROGRAMMES, WHICH DRIVE ME INSANE. THIS WAS SO PREFRESHING, MOVING, INTERESTING AND EXACTLY HOW I'D LIKE ALL ART PROGRAMMES TO BE. tHANK YOU! A TREAT! MADE MY NIGHT.
That was absolutely wonderful ...thank you from Denmark 👩🏻🎨🎨🇩🇰
Love your work.hope when I am 91 that I will be still an abstract painter..
What a glorious film and what marvellous painters. It made me want to pick up a paintbrush or pencil immediately. Thank you so much!
Grazie per aver postato questo video che per me è molto motivante, spero un giorno di poter visitare la vostra bella isola e ammirare i vostri dipinti.
What a wonderful documentary! Thank you.
That was absolutely wonderful...thank you ❤️🇨🇦
Beautifully made documentary of a wonderfully interesting and talented group of people.
Love your sculptures because you let me see what I want not forced to see a certain person .
beautiful documentary thank you
This was a nice place to be on this quiet Saturday night on Canada's west coast. I also paint and am of a similar age as these lovely souls. It's interesting that there was no talk of showing, galleries or sales. I find it so denigrating to art that money is so commonly esteemed to be co-equal with art and the hominess and goodness of this video is not spoiled with any of that nonsense!!
Thanks your paintings and artist are a delight tome
Uplifting and beautiful documentary....
Thank. You. I truly enjoyed this
This was wonderful to watch. Thank you so much.
I am wondering when this video was filmed as so many of the artists are my own age
but one of them is closer to my parents age which would make her about 90 or so now. 💛
Ok at the end it says 2007
I agree with one person here. You (a man) open presenting all the men that Monhegan is famous for. W. T. F! I was so furious that I ALMOST did not watch the documentary. I’m glad to know the these women (yes, only the models are folks of color) were fulfilled by being painters. Good to see. Some are even very talented, on par with Henri and Kent. But don’t open with these famous men. Makes me boiling furious! It’s the same in my world - Calligraphers. So many talented calligraphers but the men are the “recognized” people.
Beautiful place and artwork, looks like a great place to visit. Choosing to include the complaints about the changes to the island by of some of the residents within the first five minutes of the film did not enhance the subject matter.
Wow! Definitely on the quite side of paradise! I would love to visit!
would love to visit this place one day
beautiful. i first learned of this island when researching the Wyeth family. being on an island is so freeing and yet you are captive also to the land.
Wonderful memories and stories.
Great rock painter.wonderful landscape flower ..
Thank you for this! Amazing women. xx
Ohhhhh Wow! This was something! Wonderful!
Clearly you cannot make everyone happy……I just make myself happy…these negative people need to get creative….and start appreciating the differences on everything..
just wonderful, thank you all, would love to visit, bill c painter
Fascinating, I want to go there, NOW!
I just want to share in an art community. I work alone. I have to make, have to, can’t be happy or mentally healthy without making and creating. BUT, I am alone in it. I want to share.
That was lovely! This is the life.
Thought this was about women? Why open with identifying male artists? Afraid no one would watch this if there were no men referenced?
Could you add a LIST of the women who are featured in the documentary, in the description above?
They are listed at the very end. I just paused my screen and made a list from there.
we’ve been here Loved it
Blessings hands and minds of artists 🙌❤️🙌
Wish there were more native Maine (women ) artists living and working on the island .
We lived on Monhegan for a part of every Summer in the sixties and seventies. My husband proposed to me when we were standing in the Cathedral Woods. I am sorry to see golf carts and phone towers. What a shame. I’m glad I was there before power stations and golf carts. I am an artist too, by the way, with my start in Monhegan. I miss it.
You should be old enough to appreciate the fact that many of us are now disabled. The only way my sister, a Fine Arts major, can still visit inspiring places is with alternate transportation. Is she supposed to stay home so she won't offend you? I'm really shocked by the attitudes I've seen expressed here.
The Big Quiet - I love that
So inspiring!
Thank you so much, How Beautiful !
Very interesting.
He said in a patronising way 😂
How delightful! Love this! 🎨🎴🃏🖼
My goodness, is the island only for the young or able-bodied? Why all the golf-cart bashing? My sister has been a Fine Artist for decades, and is now severely physically disabled by kidney failure. Is she supposed to no longer travel lest she offend someone? I daresay some of you who mourn your childhood paradise may have intruded on others with your innocent chatter and giggles. Not everyone saw you through your mother's lenses.
As a native Floridian, I have seen my home state destroyed by uncontrolled development in the last fifty years. Often, the people who move here complain about the things we loved the most. But I learned to live with the condos blocking access to the beach, the traffic, the last of endangered species. Age is the great equalizer. Live long enough, and you'll learn there are worse things in the landscape than a little golf cart purring along.
Very talented women. I wished, I could live there, too.
I thoroughly enjoyed this introduction to the island and this diverse group of women artists. But I am disappointed that all the artists you featured are painters. Are there truly no fiber artists on the island? No quilters, weavers, knitters, spinners, fabric artists, felters, textile/clothing artists? Seems like this island would inspire the use of a variety of media., not just oils, watercolor and ink.
They all have a certain glow. Like a healthiness. Maybe it’s the light that the camera person used. But maybe not, and I like to think not.
53:50. We see water in motion. So when you paint it, it looks odd being still.
I would love to live there!! they are so lucky.
beautiful you truly have a great gift!
Love your twinkly lights.
lovely, lovely and lovely, I smile
How beautiful.. How is winter months?
Ha... give me the voice, the lines, the intensity the wonder and spirit of Georgia O'keefe anyday....
Fascinating
I feel bad for the poor islanders who have been squeezed out by the New Yawkers
You think this is bad, come to Florida. Almost everybody's from somewhere else, usually from New England, fleeing bad marriages, trading the ice for 115 degree days and hurricanes then complaining, and condos lining the beach til there's no longer access for someone who doesn't own oceanfront.
@@lucygray6162 I used to live in Florida (1980’s). That’s been the complaint as long as I’ve known it - Snow Bunnies.
Inspirador!!!!!!!!!!