One of the Paintings in the “Tom Glover Hurricane Journey” Art Show that Runs From October 23,- December 20, 2025.  A Portion of the Proceeds from This Exhibiton will Help Support Hurricane Island Center for Sciences and Leadership.

You are invited to attend the opening reception for the exhibition of “Tom Glover Hurricane Journey” on Thursday, October 23, 2025 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm at Cove Street Arts, 71 Cove Street, Portland.  The show runs through December 20, 2025.

Quoting from a portion of his long artist statement about a trip to Hurricane Island, it states:  “As the paintings of other artists who have seen and expressed their impressions of Hurricane Island float around my mind, I think about how they worked among the great archipelagos of Penobscot Bay and it pushes me to hunt farther and find new formations and new ideas to express.  Marsden Hartley and William Kienbusch were two artists on my mind as I walked along Hurricane’s rugged edges.  I look at their work and can’t help admiring how they grasped the gritty, sloping rock formations, the prickly reaches of the pines and the hints of the quarries active past.”

His artist statement continues:  “Then it is time to leave the island and realize that the experience has now begun to manifest as memory and as an artist working from a studio I must convert that experience from an actual corporal  experience into a visual journey.  I will be tryng to convey a sense and impression of my experience, but to relate that experience I must rely on rendering moments of joy and beauty and perhaps power, the past, urgency, tension, amazement – crystallize this experience in a static painting.”

The Hurricane Island Center for Science & Leadership was established in 2009.  It’s purpose is to inspire individuals to become impassioned  change leaders and informed citizens confronting current and future environmental challenges.

Cove Sreet Arts, 71 Cove Street, is closed on Sunday and Monday.  Please visit www.covesreetarts.com or call 207 – 808-8911.