Painter, Writer—lover of making the complex playful.
Laura B
Oil on canvas 27.5” x 37.5”
The Laura B is a historic 65-foot wooden vessel, built in 1943 as a U.S. Army T-57 patrol boat during WWII, that has served as a vital Maine lifeline since 1946. Based in Port Clyde, it has spent over 50 years transporting freight, mail, and passengers to Monhegan Island, often recognized as one of the best-maintained wooden vessels on the Eastern Seaboard.
Kim Gagné is a painter and nonfiction writer whose work explores memory, family, and the emotional resonance of everyday life. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Swain School of Design (now part of UMass Dartmouth), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s nine-week summer residency, and studied at Parsons School of Design’s New School MFA program. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview MFA program.
Her visual and written work often intertwines, drawing from photographs, personal history, and lived experience to examine how grief, resilience, and imagination shape our inner landscapes. Gagné creates work that moves fluidly between storytelling, memory, and material form—melding narrative depth with painterly expression. Whether through oil paint or prose, she evokes layered emotional truths that resist simple categorization.
She works out of her studio at the 204 Cultural Arts Municipal Building in Harwich, Massachusetts
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