painting by Jessica Ives Many thanks to Maine Boats Homes & Harbors for featuring Jonathan’s words and my paintings in their January/February issue! “The Joy of Pond Hockey” was originally published here on The Maine and begins: Every winter The Carpenter’s Boat Shop sets up a hockey rink on a small pond in New Harbor. Built with 2x6s […]

photograph by Matthew Mychack

photograph by Leila Murphy

painting and text by Jessica Ives Sometimes brushstrokes must be as quick and direct as shots on goal in the chilling afternoon light. Next goal ties. +++ Every Tuesday morning The Maine and jessicaleeives.com will post a new 207 Painting for sale. For a limited time these small works, each 4 x 4 inches on cradled birchwood panel, will be available for […]

photographs and text by Jonathan Ives Every winter The Carpenter’s Boat Shop sets up a hockey rink on a small pond in New Harbor. Built with 2x6s screwed into a 2×4 base, the height of the rink is just enough to keep the puck in and the snow out. Still, it’s a lot of work […]

painting and text by Jessica Ives Yellow laces, red plaid, and that sky! +++ Every Tuesday morning The Maine and jessicaleeives.com will post a new 207 Painting for sale. For a limited time these small works, each 4 x 4 inches on cradled birchwood panel, will be available for the special price of $207! Click on the image above to access the painting’s sale. […]

painting by Jessica Stammen “Even though it’s dark, we still want to play.” After the work day is done staff and students from The Carpenter’s Boat Shop caravan over to the neighborhood pond to play hockey as night falls. With the first strong, loud smack of the puck against the boards Mr. Riley knows without […]

poem by Dave Morrison from the new book Stethoscope, which will be released on 2/28 The siding salesmen came through just as the pre-retirees grew tired of painting the once-grand Victorians their parents left them. To the practiced eye the scar tissue of change is visible along the river; the rotted water wheel, the blackened […]