Don Bourret

Press release

The painting on my home page, Main Street Traffic, is currently in the Madison Art Society's exhibition where it won the Bosworth Grier Award. This was one of a series of urban scenes painted on location in Middletown, Ct. I am featured in an article in the Middletown Press covering the "invasion" of Main Street by myself and some other artists while creating these works. (Access the article at A-rBkS)


I currently am featured in two prestigious art anthologies. "100 Artists Of New England," compiled by noted art historian E. Ashley Rooney, is described as "a great resource for artists, collectors, art dealers and art historians." It is available on Amazon. "Best Of Worldwide Landscape Artists" was sponsored by Dick Blick Art Materials and Savoir Faire and is described as " a visual journey celebrating outstanding artists from around the world."


Last year I painted "Marilyn's Chickens" on site at our neighbor's chicken coop last Summer. These girls are very special to me. In addition to providing a regular bounty of ultra-fresh eggs, that painting (in my "New Works" gallery) won an award at the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society exhibit, juried and judged by famed Gloucester artist and author, Charles Movalli.


I was recently in the "On Holiday: The Artist Travels" exhibit at the Lyme Art Association and the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York City.


Currently I am exhibiting in the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society juried exhibition and the Lyme Art Association's Elected Members show, both at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme.