Jeanine Sobell Pastore’s work begins with intense observation and is done with an expressionist’s hand. Her paintings are directly impacted by the environment and influenced by emotion and memory.
Jeanine grew up in upstate New York and earned a BA with honors at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She then worked in Boston as a designer and art director of audiovisual presentations for 20 years before deciding to paint full time.
With a recent move to Maine, she’s come full circle and back to her roots — splitting time between studios on Orrs Island, Maine and in upstate New York.
Works by Jeanine Sobell Pastore
Waiting to Sail, 6 x 6in - $750
First Sunset, 8 x 8in - $1,200
View From My Deck, 10 x 10in - $1,500
Salt Pond Preserve, 6 x 8in - $1,000
The Lingering Sun, 4 x 8in - $850
Subtle Moon, 8 x 10in - $1,350
Dusk, 8 x 8in - $1,200
View from Monhegan Lighthouse, 8 x 8in - $1,200
At the End of Cook's, 10 x 10in - $1,600
Exuberance, 10 x 10in - $1,500
Pink Hydrangea, 5 x 7in - $750
Delicate Blooms, 14 x 11in - $2,100
Low Tide, 10 x 10in - $1,500
Pemaquid Homes, 8 x 8in - $1,200
Fairwind Marine, 6 x 6in - $750
Boats at Rest, 8 x 10in - $1,350
Tide Coming In, 48 x 36in - $6,300
Coastal Patterns, 24 x 48in - $4,400
• Pink Peonies - SOLD
• Flowers for Ann - SOLD
• New Harbor II - SOLD
• Beyond the Boats - SOLD
• View Next to Cook's - SOLD
• New Harbor I - SOLD
• Deep Pink Peony - SOLD
• Crescent Moon - SOLD
• Ocean Mist Revealed - SOLD
• Boats at Rest - SOLD
• Surrounded by Wind - SOLD
• Monhegan Sky - SOLD
• Monhegan 2023 - SOLD
• Monhegan Island Heat - SOLD
• Gathered Flowers - SOLD
• River / Ocean - SOLD
• Rough Waters, Steady Boat - SOLD
• Rocky Edge, Rushing Waters - SOLD
• Pink Peonies #2 - SOLD
• Little Buds - SOLD
• Early Evening on Bailey Island - SOLD
• Bailey Island - SOLD
• Peonies w/ Prussian Blue - SOLD
• Next to the Contented Sole - SOLD
• Rafe's Chasm Revisited - SOLD
• View from the Lighthouse - SOLD
• Ocean Mist - SOLD
• Behind Ogunquit Museum - SOLD
• Ocean Breeze, 4 x6in - SOLD
• Fiori - SOLD
• Feeling the Maine Vibe - SOLD
• The Secret View - SOLD
• Rafe's Chasm - SOLD
• Phippsburg - SOLD
• Little Buds - SOLD
• New Harbor - SOLD
• Early Evening Light - SOLD
• Monhegan - SOLD
• Ann's Japanese Maple - SOLD
• Orange & Red Pear - SOLD
Get to Know Jeanine Sobell Pastore
How might you describe your work to a first time viewer?
My work is inspired by intense observation that somehow guides me through the process of painting. I react to visual stimuli, as well as physical and emotional sensations. It feels like a rush of excitement that becomes more focused and usually challenging if I keep on pushing - not thinking about where I’m going or what it’s going to look like at the end.
What drives you to create?
Good question. I’m not really sure! It feels like a part of my being and comes naturally… although not always easily. That’s the challenge and probably what keeps me going.
A dream plein air travel destination?
Rome, Florence…would love to rent a villa somewhere in Italy!
Artist’s Statement
"My approach to making art is guided by intense observation of the subject, be it a landscape, figure or domestic interior, and influenced by emotion and memory. The act of painting releases a stream of consciousness and creative energy that reveals my view of reality, which is not always what I expect to see. The tension between visual perception and engaging with the paint itself guides my process. It straddles the line between realism and abstraction. Nothing excites me more than finding the right color, loading the brush, and applying paint to the canvas or panel. Painting leaves a record of my experience. It is my most poignant and genuine means of expression."
-Jeanine Sobell Pastore
Jeanine’s Studio Tour
Read through Jeanine Sobell Pastore’s artist Q&A to learn more about her work and browse photos of her Lexington, Massachusetts studio.
Select Installations
Kennebunkport, ME
Interior design: Samantha S. Pappas; Photo by Courtney Elizabeth; Yarmouth, ME
Newburyport, MA