Eileen Patten Oliver

Eileen Patten Oliver was born in 1952 in Waltham, MA where she studied with Paul Shea, Peter Nyren and Constantine Sgouras, and she was chosen to take a class at Massachusetts College of Art while still in high school. She was the Art Chairperson and managed the art gallery at the West Quoddy Head Light visitor’s Center in Lubec, ME for several seasons in the early 2000’s and taught Adult Education Painting at the Lubec Consolidated School. An award winning painter, she has participated in many solo and group shows in both Maine and Massachusetts. Her paintings hang in many private homes and businesses.

Eileen was inspired by the incredible beauty of the Down East Maine coast, and after moving to Cape Ann in 2010, she discovered the quality of light, natural beauty and architecture that are all unique to the area offered boundless subject matter. She paints not merely to document images of places or people, but to capture the spirit and intensity of that one magic moment with her brush.

Eileen’s greatest influences have been some of the Cape Ann Masters… Emile Gruppe, Frederick Mulhaupt, Anthony Thieme, and Aldro Hibbard among many others. Some of the great marine painters, including Thomas Hoyne, Fredrick Judd Waugh, Christopher Blossom, Jack Gray, and Don Demers are also sources of great inspiration and influence for her.

Eileen is an award winning Artist Member of the North Shore Arts Association, the Rockport Art Association & Museum, the Duxbury Art Association, the Plymouth Center for the Arts, and a past member of the Newburyport Art Association and Rocky Neck Art Colony.

Eileen is originally from Waltham, MA and lived in Maine from 1998-2010 and now resides in Rockport, MA with her husband, artist and Cape Ann native, James Oliver.