Healing Arts Exhibits

Healing Arts Program
Healing Through Art

As members of the Healing Arts Commission, we are proud of the expansion of the Healing Arts Program since it began in 2014. We are honored to help create spaces throughout St. Joseph Healthcare that support healing, recovery and wellness for patients, employees and the community. We hope you enjoy!

Jean Deighan, Mary Hollister and Jeff Wahlstrom

Members of the Healing Arts Commission

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Current Exhibits

Paul Black is exhibiting at St. Joseph Internal Medicine, The Gallery at 900 Broadway, and St. Joseph Hospital, The Gallery at 360 Broadway until September 26, 2025.

Remembering Paul Black: Maine Impressionist and Lifelong Artist

Paul Black was a Maine-born impressionist whose great passion in life was painting. Born in Bangor, he graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a B.A. in Art in 1977. Over the years, his talent flourished—earning him local awards, gallery representation, and recognition across the state.

Paul’s work is a love letter to Maine. From the golden glow of Monhegan Island to the bustling, snow-covered streets of Portland, each brushstroke reflects his deep connection to the landscape around him. His ability to capture both mood and place made him one of Maine’s most admired artists.

In addition to painting, Paul nurtured a love for music. When his daughter began violin lessons, he took an interest in the instrument

himself—eventually restoring old violins and donating them to students at the Portland Conservatory of Music.

Paul passed away in November 2014 after a courageous battle with brain cancer. Today, his paintings hang in homes, galleries, and businesses across the country—including a selection on display at St. Joseph Internal Medicine, 900 Broadway in Bangor—preserving his vision and his love for Maine.

A collection of violins from Paul’s personal restoration work is also on display at St. Joseph Hospital, 360 Broadway, generously on loan from Irena Holtz.

  • 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.”

Diana Young in her studio in Bangor, Maine (photo provided by the artist)

“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: 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.

Jill Hoy shares a painting of her home on Deer Isle. (photo credit: Jlynn Frazier)

“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: 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.

Nina Jerome painting at Great Cranberry Island, (Photo credit Pablo O’Campo)

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: 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.

Experiments with pinhole and various digital cameras taught Mallonee to focus on form, color, and movement. For many years, the camera of choice was an iPhone, especially loved for its capability to take low-light shots while roaming the house and streets at night. Later, a full-frame DSLR allowed for studies in focus, depth of field, and close-up work.

The slowing of travel during the pandemic and the establishment of a new consolidated studio provided time and the opportunity to explore other media, including encaustic monotypes and collages with a variety of materials. Currently, Mallonee is working with a photographic catalog, amassed over many years, in both analog and digital collage. The focus is on the internal landscape and the infinite ways it can be explicated.

Many years as a calligrapher and graphic designer have honed the artist’s compositional eye, and a lifetime of choral singing informs every image. The captured time, the alchemy, is what is shared with the audience.

  • 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 Littlefields 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.” 

Coming soon.


For more information about the St. Joseph Healing Arts Program, please contact us.

(207) 907-1000