Kay Seefeldt teaches classes in watercolors.
By Cora C. Briggs
Special to the Sun Journal

LIVERMORE FALLS – A language arts teacher at Jay Middle School has created a varied exhibit of her work that is now on display in the Community Art Gallery, located in the parking lot lobby of Androscoggin Bank.

Teaching is her profession and she is in her 26th year at JMS where she works art into her classes, but Kay L. Seefeldt of New Sharon also admits to an avocation that delights her: painting in watercolors.

She explains that growing up on Beals Island on the coast of Maine was a creative, nurturing experience.

“A lot of my daydreams revolved around shopping the Sears Wish Book. From the moment I discovered the artists’ painting kits on page 356, I dreamed of becoming an artist,” she explains. “Today I am living my dream and loving the medium of watercolors.”

Her painting has evolved from working almost totally dry to soaking her paper on both sides to create a mystical, poetic-like landscape or an abstract kind of painting.

Two years ago, after a 30-month sojourn through federal bureaucratic red tape, Seefeldt was awarded her official trademark, Poetry in Pigment. She likes to think of herself as an experimental artist who loves the challenge of new papers, colors and techniques.

Since 1998, she has taught basic watercolor classes for several adult education programs, and continues to study, as well, attending art workshops in the summer.

Although watercolors are her first choice, Seefeldt has worked a bit with acrylics and casein and would like to take a class in oils someday.

In the meantime, she has published several stories online including one about her father, called “January Garden.”

She and her sister, Sandra Woodward of Calais, cooperatively create children’s stories together that are also offered online.

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