Small Wonder Gallery: featuring the art of Edward Gordon, Carol Collette, Alan Magee and other local and national artists

Dale Hueppchen has been an active picturemaker, working in a variety of media, for more than thirty years. Painting almost exclusively in oils, Dale enjoys exploring a wide range of subject matter.

Relying on varied image sources - sketches from life, an extensive personal library of photographic forms, and a well-stocked visual memory - the artist chooses forms and compositions that resonate in his mind. These nascent images may be first worked up in pencil, or drawn directly onto the painting surface with chalk or paint. Once the essential form is established, color is added in layers, and the feel of the piece may undergo marked and unexpected changes in the days, weeks or months that pass before it is given its final, finishing touch.

About his work, Mr. Hueppchen says:
"My goal in painting is to distill personal moments of understanding and revelation into tactile shape. The picture surface is, for me, an arena of open-ended possibility, each painting a drama whose resolution I cannot fully anticipate.
"My hope is that, with each piece, I can invest the picture with enough of my personal skills of seeing, imagining, and painting to give the viewer a space for thought, for sensual pleasure. To me, the true test of art is just this: the ongoing interaction, through time, between the viewer and the painted surface. Art must be seen again and again to live."

Dale moved to mid-coast Maine in 1987, after a varied career in the Washington, D.C. area where he spent many years as both a fine arts photographer and a photography teacher. In Maine he returned to his first love, painting, and explored watercolor, acrylics and pastels before settling on oil painting as his natural medium. Dale currently lives in Lincolnville, where he works full time making his art.

Limited Edition Prints By Dale Hueppchen