meet the artist
“I am fascinated with color,” says June Lee Palmer.
“Also with nature—I love being outside.”
She studied water media techniques with Connie Adams (Maui) and Stephen Quiller (Creede, CO), pallet-knife oil skills with Reem Bassous (University of Hawai’i Manoa) and George Allan (Maui), and figure drawing and painting with Ka-Ning Fong (University of Hawai’i Manoa). She is adept with monoprints and other printmaking, also ceramics. “I have learned from masterful people. Now I learn from my paintings. They teach me, every one I do.”
Raised in Southern California and New Mexico, she has scuba-dived throughout the South Pacific and had studied art history and art restoration in Florence and Calabria. “Maui is home, and now I’m traveling to other places, basically filling up my inspiration bucket—different cloud formations, different kinds of birds, different landscapes, different kinds of light, different inspirations. Because paintings are about inspiration. Paintings paint themselves if you have inspiration.”