Mollie Porter

Mollie Porter was born eccentric sometime in the early 70's on a subsistence farm in Adamant, Vermont. She became a painter in a family of writers and for years lived and worked in a small cabin she built on the side of a small abandoned granite quarry. She has dropped out of several schools including St John's College, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, the Studio School in New York and finally - not having ever gotten her BA- she went to graduate school at Boston University. She dropped out after one year and went back to painting in a studio she built near her cabin. She has also attended artist's retreats in California and Maine.      In between painting she has had numerous, mostly outdoor jobs from fishing in Alaska to grooming trails at Morse's Ski Center and has used any windfalls to go to Florence and Madrid to study the masters directly.      Her work starts from the landscape or flowers but is a cross between impressionistic and abstract as she searches color, form and space.