Greg Mort “A WINTER’s DAY” presented by Somerville Manning Gallery Opening Reception Friday, November 8th, 2024, 5:30 pm. Artist talk: 6:30 pm.

Sharing these #pastel images for the first time. #Pastels have been my secret passion from the beginning of my creative journey. This material fascinates and gratifies me for many reasons. The intense tactile experience of moving and blending the minute grains of pigment with your fingers is unique to only this medium.

ILLUMINATIONS - Greg Mort - OPEN STUDIO August 5th & 6th, 10am to 5pm

Fieldstone Castle 129 Marshall Pt Rd Port Clyde, Maine 04855

Or By Appointments: 207-372-8658

 An artist tour and talk will take place Sunday, August 6th at 1 pm. Mort created this very unique series of twelve watercolor and mixed media works of art to take the realism genre to new heights. His concept combines craft and technology to draw the viewer into the image on an intimate level that only truly original art can achieve using state of the art materials to extend the range of luminacity. Mort’s art has been exhibited around the world including recently in CLIMATE ACTION – INSPIRING CHANGE exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum and the White House through the Arts in Embassies Program. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, the White House and many more. A lifelong naturalist, in 2007 Mort co-founded The Art of Stewardship a nonprofit initiative that supports art and environmental partnerships.

Mort’s art has been exhibited around the world including recently in CLIMATE ACTION – INSPIRING CHANGE exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum and the White House through the Arts in Embassies Program. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, the White House and many more. A lifelong naturalist, in 2007 Mort co-founded The Art of Stewardship a nonprofit initiative that supports art and environmental partnerships.

.  For more information: GregMort.com and 207-372-8658.

OPEN STUDIO - A NEW VIEW OF THE WORLD - August 6th & 7th , 10 am to 5 pm & by appointment #Fieldstone #Castle, Port Clyde, Maine. I am pleased to join Jon Mort and welcome #friends and #family to a share the #artistic journey we have traveled and how we go forward together. Located near the Marshall Point Lighthouse Museum #OpenStudio Artist talk and tour Saturday, August 6th at 1pm.

Somerville Manning Gallery

presents

GREG MORT & JON MORT ~ PANORAMAS

Opening Reception November 22nd, 2019, from 5:30 to 7:30

Exhibition: Friday, November 22, 2019, to Saturday, December 21, 2019

The title PANORAMAS was chosen to represent this collection because the word evokes more than a single or narrow view; it can mean a combined perspective of respective but interwoven journeys. In our case, it acknowledges the particular experience of a father and son who are creating and reflecting on each other's work in real-time. And because the word can define more than the reach of a view of the landscape, it includes the idea of a narrative panorama, further emphasizing a connection between the past and the future.

The collection of work in the exhibit reflects that variety, encouraging participants as partners in that reflection. In that sense, the title touches a deep and central motivation of the artistic process: to examine the past and question the future, and thus generate analysis and dialogue in and of the present.

Greg Mort will be a featured artist, along with his son artist Jon Mort, at the renowned Carla Massoni Gallery’s annual HOLIDAY SHOW in Chestertown, Maryland. The exhibition runs from December 5, 2018 to January 12, 2109. Chestertown’s Dickens Weekend takes place December 7th, 8th & 9th, and the gallery will be opened and welcoming art lovers.

Gallery hours are subject to change based on our exhibition schedule. When we are installing a new exhibit the gallery will be dark. Otherwise our hours are Thursday thru Friday 11-4pm, Saturday 10-5 pm, Sunday 11-2 pm. We are closed Monday and Tuesday except by appointment.

Private appointments may be scheduled at any time by contacting Carla Massoni – 410-708-4512. Of course, you are always welcome by chance – if you see the lights on – just knock!

MASSONIART
Carla Massoni Gallery
203 High Street
Chestertown MD 21620
410.778.7330
info@massoniart.com

The Somerville Manning Gallery presents American artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort NEW HORIZONS exhibition opening reception Friday, November 17th, 2017 5:30 to 7:30.

American artist Greg Mort will host "Dusk Till Dawn Open Studio 2017" at his Port Clyde, Maine studio on August 5th & 6th, 2017, 10 am to 5 pm. Mort will welcome guests to celebrate his 40th summer painting in Maine with special events through both days.  An artist talk and tour will take place on Saturday at 1 pm.  Greg will be once again showing with his artist son Jon Mort who will present "Maine Treasures Open Studio 2017". 

The beauty of Maine has inspired artists for centuries but painter Greg Mort's experience is a bit different because he finds Maine’s star filled nights as captivating as its sun drenched or fog bound shores.   For Greg each inlet and island has it’s own mysterious personality and mood bathed in sunlight or surrounded by an inky blue nocturnal sky showed with stars and a brilliant Milky Way.  For the past forty summer he has been driven to capture these ever changing images ruled by the declination of the, sun, moon, constellations and shifting tides.  Weather creating a landscape or a still life, he prefer to paint directly from life.  This preference has bought him face to face with many adventures and challenges.   Greg’s Artist Talk on Saturday at 1 pm will include details of both.  Also, as a life long amateur astronomer as well as an artist he will offer perspectives and hints for observing the upcoming Eclipse taking place on August 21, 2017.

“From my first visit in 1977 the constant beauty and mystery of Maine’s costal and island communities have excited me. It has been my good fortune to witness first hand the tight knit and supportive families who, through generations of determination and tenacity, built strong foundations in Tenants Harbor, Port Clyde and our nearby islands.  The hardworking fishermen of these coastal and island ports are a source of admiration as well as inspiration. During my first summer I would hitch a ride on lobsterman and friend Sherwood Cook’s boat the “Gwendolyn J” out to Little Green Island at dawn for a day of painting.  When he competed hauling his traps he would pick me up and critique my artwork as we traveled back into homeport.  Many evenings the Armstrong family welcomed me into their warm home and fed me my first lobster.  Since then Jerry Cushman and siblings have generously shared their knowledge and experiences.  Kind island folks welcomed me including the Whitehead family on Southern Island, the Porters to Matinicus, the Trevors to Mosquito, the Smiths to Grapham, the Huppers to the Brothers and many others. 

It is my good fortune that Maine has not only given me artistic inspiration but our family the gift of community. “