Architecture: Houses and Buildings | Lisa Kyle

• Summer Day, Bailey Island

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 24" x 1 1/2". A perfect summer day in Bailey Island!

• Windswept Farmstead

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 24" x 1 1/2". I am drawn to the old houses and farms of Maine. When I was a child, driving to my grandparents house in Texas, I would see old farms, many abandoned, and I would imagine the lives that…

• Morning in a Meadow

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1.5". This is a scene from a nearby preserve - they have preserved the farmhouse and the surrounding meadows. It is a great place to walk now, and paint! :) I am obsessed with their meadows - th…

• Dance of the Fireflies

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 18" x 1 1/2". I love the fairytale quality of this painting - like we are in the midst of a Grimms fairytale. Hansel and Gretel approaching the house. It also pulls me back to the memories of my child…

• Summer Reading

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1.5". We found this tiny cottage a few years ago in Jonesport, Maine. I fell in love with it - it seemed like the perfect summer get away! So tiny and cozy. The light shone against the coming da…

• Fairytale Summer

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24" x 1.5". This painting has an interesting vibe to it - it makes me try to imagine a story to go along with it: who is in the house? what are they doing? How late is it? The fireflies keep it on the…

• Reflections at High Tide, Cozy Harbor

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 18" x 1.5". This is such an iconic Maine building! So many of these building have been lost recently due to storms. Sometimes I feel like painting them is a way of preserving them, or at least the mem…

• Birdsong Morning

  Oil, Canvas, 16" x 12" x 1 1/2". This is painted on a 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped canvas. The edges are painted grey, and there is a wire on the back of the canvas. So it is ready to hang! I have tried to capture the co…

• Morning Light at the Boat Building

  Oil, Linen Panel, 10" x 10". I painted this boat building from a pier next to this boat building. I loved the simple form of the building and the pal trees! I dont get a chance to paint many palm trees! This is painted…

• Morning in Early Spring

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10" x .2. I have to admit, that I had lost all enthusiasm for painting houses or buildings - but this little painting has sparked a renewed interest! I painted this plein-air earlier this year. It is a…

• The Boat Building

  Oil, Linen Panel, 10" x 8". I painted this boat building again one morning - and the midgies almost defeated me! It was very buggy - the tide was going out and I was standing on a pier over the marsh grasses. Maybe not…

• A Quiet Summer Evening

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1 1/2". This is painted on a 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped canvas. The edges are painted grey, and there is a wire on the back of the canvas. So it is ready to hang! I have tried to capture the co…

• House with Palm Tree

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 8". I loved this simple house glowing in the sun - with a palm tree casting a shadow! The palm trees add such a different geometry to the landscape - it is hard not to be fascinated by them. This painti…

• Summer Morning, Cozy Harbor

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1.5". Available online only. Shipping included.

• Monhegan Morning

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1 1/2". If you have never been to Monhegan, you simply must go! Even better, spend the night. The majority of tourists leave, and the island is blissfully quiet. The stars are breath-taking. I l…

• Gathering Dusk, Hillside Farm

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 18" x 1.5"

• Autumn Gold

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10" x .2. Available online only, through my website!

• Autumn

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18" x 1.5". Edward Hopper stated: All I ever wanted to do was paint sunlight on the side of a house. Monet was trying to capture the feeling of light, the impression of a time of day on a landscape.I…

• Winter

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 18" x 1 1/2". Available online though my website only. Shipping included.

• Cozy Harbor

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 8". We have been living in Maine 3 months now - and it has been wonderful! I keep finding new places to paint. This is one of my favorites - Cozy Harbor, Maine. All those roof lines! This is one of my f…

• Sunshine Morning

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 8" x 1 1/2". There is something so compelling about these traditional houses in Maine. The simple forms, the human scale. They seem perfectly crafted to a simpler way of life. I imagine that it was a h…

• Rise and Shine

  Oil, Canvas, 12" x 12" x 1 1/2". This is painted on a 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped canvas. The edges are painted grey, and there is a wire on the back of the canvas. So it is ready to hang! I have tried to capture the co…

• Inspiration, Monhegan

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 20" x 1 1/2". This painting will be available at the "Art in the Park" festival on August 8, in South Portland, Maine. I will be in Booth 161, the same place as last year! I hope to see you there!

• The Keeper's House, Marshall Point

  Oil, Canvas, 18" x 18" x 1.5". I have tried to capture the colors faithfully in my photographs, but the actual colors may vary slightly from your monitor. This is painted on a gallery wrapped canvas and the edges are pa…