MAY 6  –  JUNE 28

Raymond Welch, Maine Folk Artist 

and Terry Golson’s “Animals in Sweaters”

Born in Ohio, Raymond Welch moved with his family to Sanford and worked as a loom fixer and designer of carpet fabrics in  the Goodall-Sanford Textile Mills. He loved music and played bass in a band performing throughout  Northern New England. At age 43 he started experimenting in watercolor painting. In 1958, inspired by the primitive art of  Anna Mary Roberson, better-known as Grandma Moses, Welch started to paint in oils. He said, “I never copied anything. I just painted what’s in my head or in my memory.”  He had exhibits of his self-proclaimed “Primitive Art” in New York and Boston. He died in 1996 at age 81.