This oil on canvas is titled "Winter Read" and is a piece by Maine artist Louise Bourne.  The piece measures 24" x 18" framed.  

"I am a painter living on the Blue Hill Peninsula of the Maine Coast.  My paintings are responses to stunning experiences of color and light.  I love the gestures, the geometry, light on skin, and, as always, how color shifts given a light condition.  The color progressions, inside and out, of a specific old, island house, with its residents, feed another body of work.  The presence of a figure implies a narrative.  I enjoy the tension between this narrative and the formal needs of the painting, of working from direct observation and from memory.    Nature calls our attention like a magnet; I try to make my paintings have a similar pull, not as description, but as visceral experience."  

Visit Louise's website for more information about her and her work.