Attic Window Series 

               

Wallaces to Wharfs Friendship SOLD     Building Blocks Warren SOLD

                          

                    Wonders of Warren            Gothic Peaks                       Sunbursts Waldoboro               Mluttoning Clouds, Wiscasset

                                             

        Overseers Brunswick        Sea Captains Thomaston              Steaming By, Depot St. Waldoboro         Of Tides and Atmosphere RockportSOLD

                      

Of Hearts and Halls, WaldoboroSOLD     Rockland Blues SOLD      Midnight off Broadway SOLD     Waldoboro ChimneysSOLD

                    

Main Street Waldoboro SOLD    Downtown to Day's Cove SOLD  Damariscotta Downtown SOLD   Rockland Jig SOLD

                   

Old Line Waldoboro SOLD         Year Round Opera Booothbay HarborSOLD   Early Run Warren SOLD     Crosses and Clams Waldoboro SOLD  

A unique series of Attic Windows paintings by Waldoboro artist, Jean Kigel

Attics occupy a special space directly below the pitched roof of a house.
Once common in New England houses,  attics are now obsolete architectural structures. 
These awkwardly shaped spaces, with exposed rafters and difficult-to-reach corners, are generally used for storage. 
Vast troves of family papers in neatly tied bundles, heaped beside dusty Seth Thomas clocks, and sea chests of clothing stored in attics, reveal family histories. 
"There is something romantic about an attic."
In Kigel’s paintings the viewer is invited to take a virtual look from the street into attic windows to  imagine the history within. 
Kigel travels Mid-Coast Maine towns, seeking unusually shaped attic windows, in the form of  crescent moons, polygons, or ornately arranged and decorated multi-panes. 
Her compositions consist of  apexes of old New England homes clustered into an architectural community.
These compositions harmonized with colors and shapes create a distinct personality of a given town.