Healing Arts Exhibits

Daryne Rockett is exhibiting at St. Joseph Internal Medicine, The Gallery at 900 Broadway, until December 12, 2025.

Daryne Rockett is a self- taught painter and mixed media artist in Orono.  She began her foray into visual art after sustaining a brain injury while playing roller derby in 2014. Unable to play music or work in her career as a trauma therapist for over a year, she turned to art as a means of expression. The symmetry and repetition of patterns were a balm to her foggy brain.  What began as an internal therapeutic process of doodling on small squares of paper evolved into an outward expression of deep feelings and complex beliefs.

Daryne has brought artmaking into community settings with fellow veterans, healthcare providers, and social justice advocates creating collaborative works for display and engagement.   Her work has been exhibited from the Maine Statehouse to the Cedar Ridge Creative Centre in Toronto and earned Best in Show twice in 2024 with the Bangor Art Society and a gold medal in the 2024 National Veterans Art Competition.

Artist Statement

In times of crisis or trauma, people often measure themselves against historical figures in terms of their capacity to survive, overcome, and even thrive in the wake of suffering. We want to believe in a brighter future and in our own resilience and capacity to arrive there. We long for a felt sense of balance and the secure knowledge of our place in a natural order.

My abstract paintings, monotypes, and mixed-media works use color, contrast, movement and texture to convey the energy encompassed by the struggle and the beauty sought as its reward.

Yellow Chickadee Art Studio is exhibiting on the First floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Main Lobby, until December 12, 2025.

Yellow Chickadee Art Studio is a culmination of a mother and daughter’s love of the arts, with a focus on pottery. Inspired by nature, their work often incorporates natural material. For example, a treasured piece of driftwood becomes a handle on lidded pot. Leaves become the base of bowls and platters.

Originally from the Adirondack mountains in New York state, Marylou Reid began her pottery business there. At an early age her daughter Teresa was always involved with the many facets of pottery making. She would help at her mother’s shop, craft shows, and with the finishing touches on gallery installations. Throughout the years, each has developed their own unique style and continued to collaborate on various projects. The duo specializes in custom tile murals and garden sculpture.

• Location: First floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Main Lobby

Katia Mason, a Boston native with cherished memories of summers in Corea, Maine, has donated her evocative piece “Beneath the Surface 49.6.” Additionally, we have acquired two more of her works, “Beneath the Surface – BNS 52.11” and “Beneath the Surface 52.10,” with funds from the Healing Arts Fund. 

Mason’s artwork, influenced profoundly by her experiences along the coast, embodies themes of comfort, healing, and inspiration. “Living on the coast, I can sit in awe of what is revealed, hidden, and carried away by the ebb and flow of the tidal cycle,” says Mason. “Beneath the Surface 49.6 is a narrative of hope and inspiration, a visual expression of MOMENTUM and what is possible when we align desire and action.” 

The Littlefield Gallery of Winter Harbor, represented by Jane and Kelly Littlefield, played a crucial role in bringing Mason’s work to St. Joseph Healthcare. Their passion for fine art, education, and community commitment facilitated this meaningful collaboration. The Littlefield‘s’ dedication extends beyond their gallery walls, embodying values that align perfectly with our mission. 

“Human Beings are the perfect design of mind, body, and spirit,” Mason adds. “When we are wounded, the healing process requires multiple approaches and forms of assistance to support the total system in recovering. My choice to donate ‘Beneath the Surface 49.6’ to St. Joseph Hospital was motivated by their Healing Arts Program and their commitment to support the whole person.” 

• Location: First floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Neuroscience wing

You will find the paintings of Diana Young on the first floor of the hospital. Young remembers being an artist since she was a child, in fact, she has been “making pictures” by painting landscapes in Maine and from her travels throughout the world for nearly 50 years.

Her work leans toward line, direction, force and motion, rather than form and naturalism. For her, an outdoor place is a point of departure rather than a study in nature. She is always looking for “the kernel of a place.”

“What makes an artist? Doing art with enthusiasm for many years is the proof. What starts our looking strange may become accepted as beautiful over time and I’m hoping that happens to me. Being an artist could well be one part talent and nine parts desire.”

Young is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited in regional galleries and across artist cooperatives throughout Maine. She continues to create art in her studio located in Bangor, Maine.

Her art can be seen at the Eastport Gallery in person during the summer months (June through September) and online year round. You can see a beautiful collection of her work online and available for purchase by visiting Flood Fine Art.

• Location: Second floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Respiratory, Cardiology, and General Surgery wing

You will find contemporary landscape paintings by local artist Nina Jerome on the first floor of the hospital. As a long-time resident in Maine, Jerome finds inspiration for her work in both natural and constructed environments, drawing and painting in series that examine visual variations of place. For her, the painting process conveys her personal direction through the land as she witnesses its light, movement, and changes.

Jerome spends the warmer months in coastal Maine, a rich visual resource with its undeveloped shoreline and wide-ranging tidal fluctuations. She has also explored sense-of-place in other Maine areas. Jerome has completed residencies on two of her favorite Maine islands – Great Spruce Head Island and Great Cranberry Island – and has created paintings for fourteen public art projects in Maine including a series for the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor.

This exhibit includes paintings dating from 1980 to the present. Notable series presented here are “Quiet Tension” (1995), a record of Jerome’s walks along the rocky shore in Addison, ME, “Altered Landscape” (1986), construction views of the Veterans Remembrance Bridge across the Penobscot River, “Winter Power” (2005), a series depicting the steam plume marking the location of an electricity generating plant along the Penobscot River, “From the Kayak” (2006), images of floating between sea and sky in Addison, ME, and “Homage to the Ocean” (2013), a series that wove words written about climate change into the images of the sea.

• Location: Third floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, General Surgery and Urology Extension Wing

You will find colorful paintings by local artist Jill Hoy on the third floor of the hospital. Hoy’s work focuses on the qualities of Maine light in her plein air oil paintings. Strong composition, rhythm, gesture, pattern, energy, power of place, and soul are primary focal points.

“I’ve spent my summers in Deer Isle, Maine since I was ten years old. Deer Isle has raised me to be a painter,” said Hoy. Reflecting on the exhibit, she shares: “All of my oil paintings are done outside on location. My work captures both an intimate relationship with nature, along with the movements of wide-open spaces that allow our heart to expand.”

Hoy has exhibited her work extensively in Maine and in locations across the United States. You may have seen her work on the cover of an L.L. Bean catalog or a Down East Magazine publication. Hoy’s work is on display in more than 600 private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe, including The Jill Hoy Gallery, which is open for the season in Stonington, Maine.

• Location: Third floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Radiology 

Kat Johnson is an artist living and working in Bangor, Maine. She has been actively involved in the arts and arts education for over twenty years working for organizations such as The Zillman Art Museum, Penobscot Theatre Company, and The Maine Discovery Museum, among others. She is currently working full-time as an art teacher at Brewer High School and sits on the board of local non-profit Bangor Beautiful. She specializes in illustration and printmaking with works ranging from wholesale print goods to one-of-a-kind pieces and client commissions. katjohnsonart.com

• Location: Fifth floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Elevator Lobby

You will find beautiful images by local artist LeeAnne Mallonee on the fifth floor of the hospital right as you step off the elevator. These beautiful images, created in Bangor and Camden, showcase LeeAnne’s unique blend of analog and digital collage. Her work explores the concept of internal landscapes and the infinite ways they can be expressed.

Mallonee believes at its heart, a photograph is light and shadow, and the spaces between. It is mercurial and moody, and it illuminates the world in ways that words cannot. It is a disclosure, a deception, captured in time. Photographer Duane Michals calls it “the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.” Photography injects the past into the present, and explains us to ourselves.

The development of digital cameras offered Mallonee an explosion of possibilities for the kind of spontaneous, abstract art-making she loves.

• Location: Sixth floor, St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, Elevator Lobby

You will find beautiful images by local artist James Linehan on the sixth floor of the hospital right as you step off the elevator. This small group of paintings depict the Downeast Maine coast, in Machias, Islesford, and Schoodic Point. All places that James has grown to love over his forty years in Maine. For James, painting is an act of meditation. Each small stroke adds to the whole image, just like a needlepoint or an embroidered image. When all of the brushstrokes are in place, the image is finished, it is whole… it is “healed”.

James believes in the power of art as a tool for meditation and healing for the viewer too. It is his hope that his donated paintings will provide comfort to all who come across them at the hospital. St. Joseph Hospital plays an important role in our community, and he is honored to be associated with it. His gift was made in memory of his parents, Maryrose and John Linehan, two people who believed firmly in the healing power of love and faith.

James Linehan is a painter and an Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Maine. He served as Department Chair for seven years and has balanced the dual careers of painter and teacher since 1978. Prior to moving to Maine in 1983 he taught for five years at St. Andrews College in North Carolina. Raised near Boston, MA and also in Lewiston, NY and Tempe, AZ, Linehan studied at Arizona State University (BFA ‘74) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA’76; MFA ‘78). Linehan has been represented by Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine; Vose Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; and for 13 years at Sherry French Gallery, New York, N.Y. He also had long associations with The Gallery at 357 Main Street in Rockland, Maine, and Frick Gallery in Belfast, Maine. His work has been included in over one hundred and fifty group shows and twenty solo shows in the past twenty-five years. He has completed twenty public commissions, including fifteen for the Maine Arts Commission Percent For Art Project, and is represented in thirty public and corporate collections including the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum, L.L. Bean, Bank of America, the Portland Museum of Art, Bates College, US Department of State Art Bank, and the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, ME. Linehan is currently represented by Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, Maine.