The Spring show is coming up. The show is scheduled for Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2. Delivery of your artwork is Thursday, April 30 between 4 and 6 P.M. The deadline for submission of your application form is April 28, 2026.
| Spring Show 2026 Entry Form | Spring Show 2026 Information |
The details about the show are in the information document, Spring2026_Information.pdf
We now have three ways to enter the show.
Click on this link: https://forms.gle/jH5UfucVrYFGRVox6
The online registration form is a Google form into which you can enter your personal information and the information about your art. Once you have completed the form, click on the Submit button and you are done.
There is no need to print anything and bring it to the dropoff. We will print the entry form for you and have it there for you to sign. We will also have the labels to put on the backs of your art works at the dropoff.
When you submit your form you will be given the opportunity to have a copy of your submission emailed to you. The emailed copy is for your records only, you do NOT need to print that form and bring it in.
Click on this link: Spring2026_EntryForm.pdf
The PDF entry form has editable fields. You can enter your information into the form on the computer, then print the form and bring it in to the dropoff.
You can also download the form to your computer, open the PDF file in your Adobe reader and enter your information into the fields on your own computer.
We do need to have you bring in the printed form so that you can sign it when you drop off your paintings.
We will not have print capability at the Church.
Also, please send us an email with the following information in it so that we can register you for the show.
Click on this link: Spring2026_EntryForm.pdf
You can print the form blank and fill it out by hand.
Then, bring the completed form to the dropoff with you.
Also, please send us an email with the following information in it so that we can register you for the show.
Please Note.
The Spring Show is now a members only show.
You need to be a member of in good standing of RAA to exhibit.
Dues are now $30 per year.
Also Please Note.
There is no entry fee beyond paying your annual dues.
If you payed your dues in the fall, there is no
additional fee to enter this show.
Here are the bios of the judges
Jeff Hayes is an artist living and working in Boston, creating still-life, landscapes and portraits in contemporary realist tradition. He has been practicing the Painting-A-Day discipline since August 2006, creating one finished work every weekday, an ongoing, exciting challenge.
Jeff reports that painting is the third career in his life. The first two, as a musician and then as a developer of internet software, still breathe their influence into his work. The study of music has given him a very strong sense of rhythm, line, and balance. Most of his paintings, particularly his daily paintings, begin with a connection with a common object or scene--fundamentally something he has seen around him dozens, maybe hundreds, of times. Schooling himself through study and observation, painting quickly grew from a pastime to one of the most important elements of his life. He is currently studying figurative and still-life painting at The New England Realist Art Center in Boston. His paintings are included in nearly 100 private collections.
You can visit Jeff's web site here: http://www.jeffhayes.com/
Native to the New England area, Andrew Anderson-Bell is a representational landscape artist painting in the medium of pastel. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Andrew initially pursued graphic design and photography. While these remain passions to this day, his interest in painting in pastel was sparked by an exhibit he saw 20 years ago. The immediacy of the medium, the vibrancy of the colors and the diversity of mark making inspired him to pursue a career in pastel painting.
Where Andrew lives keeps him in daily contact with the great outdoors, his leading source for artistic inspiration. He is a lifelong summer resident of North Haven Island, Maine. When not there, he lives in Ipswich, a seaside community located on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Much of the subject matter of his pastel paintings depict familiar landscape scenes from North Haven as well as from his exploration of the other islands of Penobscot Bay. Meanwhile, the beaches, horse pastures, farmland and particularly tidal salt marsh estuaries of the north shore are also captured in his landscapes.
Although many of Andrew's pastel paintings are of recognizable locations, he is not concerned with generating an exact reproduction. Instead, he often works in the studio from memory, sketches and/or photographs using an intuitive process to create a heightened sense of place. Working in this fashion allows Andrew to avoid getting bogged down in details while promoting a more imaginative response to handling color and composition. Through his work he conveys nature's incantations: whispers of wind through bows of spruce trees, the lapping of waves against a shoreline, the distant rumble of thunder. To capture the feel and temperature of weather and nature's change in mood, he often examines the metamorphosis of daylight to dusk or calm to approaching storm. He portrays the spectrum of nature from the graceful dance of field grass to the power and fury of surf. His paintings offer the viewer the indulgence of a meditative space to contemplate the grandeur of nature and reinforce the notion that even the most solitary and tranquil moments have significance.
Learn more about Andrew at his website, https://www.anderson-bellstudio.com/