Bring the whole family!
Watch how an oil painter creates his work… using brushes and/or palette knife
Enjoy hundreds of plein air paintings; works done on location: around Cape Ann; in Key
West; Newburyport and places in-between and far away. See paintings of historic
Gloucester fishing boats. This is also the home of LaPierre’s famous and ongoing
Clowns with Cell Phones oil paintings!

Stephen LaPierre, a self-taught oil painter, and former member of the Rocky Neck Art
Colony, now enjoys larger space at his new studio at 11 Harbor Loop in Gloucester’s
Harbortown Cultural District. A juried member of the Rockport Art Association and the
North Shore Art Association, he has been honored with several one-man shows: Key
West en plein air included more than fifty works of the southernmost city and took place
in the Main Gallery of the Key West Museum of Art and History at the Custom House;
More recently LaPierre was again honored when Cirque du LaPierre, a show that
included more than fifty of his clown paintings, was on exhibit at the Groton School’s de
Menil Gallery.

Smaller one-man shows have included: A Tale of Two Cities: La Habana & Key West, at
Key West’s Tropic Cinema; Rocky Neck en plein air in the Rocky Neck Cultural Center’s
Studio Gallery and as Monserrat College of Art’s Visiting Artist – Clowns with Cell
Phones in the President’s Gallery.

As a plein air painter he must follow the light, thus returning to the same spot each day
to capture the same light to complete the work. During the past decade LaPierre has
created more than a hundred paintings of Gloucester’s Rocky Neck; capturing the
Neck’s existing historical architecture and harbor views, while also illustrating the
eradication of this historical architecture, year by year.

Living and working in Gloucester for the past decade, has continued to keep the artist in
close contact with the compositions and light enjoyed by the Gloucester School’s
historical figures such as John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Teresa Bernstein, Emile Gruppe
and his good friend, Robert Gruppe.

For more information: paintpaintpaint.org or 321-537-7762 or st.lapierre@gmail.com

Open Studio Hours: Monday-Sunday 11AM-7PM or by appointment