"Deertrees has made a sincere effort to reach beyond the commonplace of scenic tourist landscapes to cultivate a more diverse and perhaps more cosmopolitan perspective in the visual arts which they choose to exhibit here."

Ken Westhaver,

from his review of the CAC exhibit, June 200

The mission of The Backstage Art Gallery is more than to simply enhance the theatergoing experience of Deertrees patrons; it is to present paintings and sculptures that one does not ordinarily see in the local art galleries. Here are exhibited works by outstanding and adventurous artists who have a different way of seeing our surroundings and who have the ability to transpose that vision into fine art.

The BackStage Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday
from 10 am until 5 pm,one hour before performance,
during intermission, andby appointment.

Paul Winterman

Paul Winterman has known from the time he was a very small boy that the outdoors was for him.  From the time he was 10 years old, he has spent as much time as possible in the wilderness, living off the land and discovering the world of wildlife.  An Eagle Scout by his mid-teens, his love of nature has become his vocation.  The quality of his work is evidenced by the national awards he has won for his photographs of wildlife.
Paul retired from his career as a homicide investigator in Florida in order to devote his time to his photography.  He now travels the United States, camping out in the backwoods for a couple of months at a time, bow hunting in season and photographing the landscape and the animals that inhabit it.  He will lie still for hours until the animals are used to his presence and return to their normal lives.  Then he goes into action, painting with his camera and creating the stunning photographs that are gaining him a national reputation.

Jon Allan Marshall

Jon Allan Marshall, 46, born in Quincy, Massachusetts, earned a BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, studied in Holland, and paints in a highly traditional style of 17th century Dutch-Flemish oil painters. Many of his works are on panel or canvass, framed in exquisitely ornate wood given the appearance of age by Jon’s carefully administered abuse. His oils lush in texture - both brilliant and subtle in their depiction of light’s dance – direct our eyes through a chiaroscuro treasure map. We cannot fail to find Jon’s gold in great nature’s garden; we need merely follow the light. He lives in Denmark, Maine with his wife, Kristi, and their three children.

Misha Tomić

Vladimir (Misha) Tomić, 58, born in Belgrade, Serbia (Yugoslavia when he was born), trained as an artist in Belgrade, started his career in paint, migrating in recent years into photographic images and mixed media. His images tend toward the clean, the contemporary, often unframed, moving in and out of the real world, testing the viewer, often with playful delight, to find and then lose the objective source of the artist’s subject. In 1998 he came to Waterford, Maine, where he lives from May to November, with his wife, the artist Lori Christmastree, moving with the birds to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico during the winter months

Terence Harper

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Daniel Minter

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