254 Cider Hill Road
York, ME, 03909
United States
The online gallery for Dennis Perrin Fine Art. Dennis Perrin can best be described as a painter of light as it illuminates and describes the subject. Mr. Perrin always chooses to paint in front of the subject, not content to settle for photography or video as painting material. Dennis has been called an American Impressionist Painter in the Boston School tradition, and that is not surprising since among his greatest influences are the American Painters John Singer Sargeant, Edmund Tarbell, and Frank Benson, as well as the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Other major influences have been Diego Velasquez, Johannes Vermeer, Thomas Dewing, Maxfield Parrish, Joseph DeCamp, and so many others.
As we ease our way around the sun and slowly begin our inverse axis tilt during these easy summer days, my attention remains on the glorious, brilliant spectrum of colors that dance on and through the surface of white cloth in the full sun. And as we've done so many times before, my beautiful wife and I find our way into lovely scenarios that fully display the glory that is summer sunlight.
Read MoreI've taken on the task of painting all of my paintings while in front of the subject, whether it's in the quiet, controlled environment of the studio, or the hectic, vibrant, ephemeral setting of the garden in bright sunlight. It may seem a bit silly to ignore the opportunity of using a photograph or other still reference in order to accomplish a painting, but I decided long ago that I would rather go for the fleeting effect than the "finished" look.
Read MoreThroughout the year I paint flowers. And mostly those flowers come from faraway places like Ecuador, for the growing season for the flowers I love to paint is excruciatingly short here in New England. But every June, the peony bushes in my garden burgeon with silky, lush peony blossoms, which for me is an annual call to action.
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