Gold/Smith Gallery will be presenting a selection of original watercolors by noted Maine artists, Consuelo Eames Hanks and Ted Hanks May 29 through June 30. An opening reception, open to the public, will be held on Saturday, May 31 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The exhibition will include paintings by Consuelo that reflect the coast of Maine, a subject that has guided her work as an artist. Born in Boothbay Harbor, she had her first sailing experience in the early 1940s, cruising around close to home in a 12-foot sailboat. In the summer, she and her mother, Muriel, would go on daily sails here. Her mother would read aloud to her from the novel “Vanity Fair” (and other classics) while they sailed back and forth in the harbor.

Consuelo attended schools in England, France, and the United States. She received a baccalaureate degree from the Lycee Francais de New York and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Her intricate drawing and detailed painting style is influenced by the work of her father John Heagan Eames, a member of the National Academy of Design and a senior member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in England.

She has lived in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Consuelo started painting while living in Japan and studying the art of traditional Japanese ink wash painting. Her favorite subjects come from sailing cruises along the Maine coast in the family’s Friendship Sloop.

Consuelo has had a lifetime of adventures on the sea from a stormy trans-Pacific crossing on a freighter, where she was the only woman aboard, to many two-week sailboat cruises with her husband, Ted Hanks, along the coast of Maine.

Now, instead of crewing a sailboat, she is happy to keep her travels on solid ground in Morocco, Turkey, China, Bhutan and Myanmar, among others. Even in those exotic places, she has found boats, ships and seascapes to paint.

Consuelo illustrated the Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay,” written by William W. Warner in 1976. For many years she did all the maritime illustrations in the New Yorker Magazine. She has also illustrated books by Maine humorist and storyteller, John Gould, and contributed to Roger Duncan’s 1992 book, “Coastal Maine: A Maritime History.” She has done illustrations for Wooden Boat Magazine, and in 1981 was featured on the cover of Downeast Magazine. She is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA).

The work of Consuelo Eames Hanks is exhibited in many local and national galleries including Mystic Seaport Maritime Art Gallery in Mystic Connecticut. She received the Award of Excellence, for the Mystic International Exhibition in 1987, 1991, 2004, and 2006.

Her drawings and watercolors are in permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. High-quality limited edition prints of many of her drawings and watercolors are available in galleries and fine gift shops around New England.

Ted is originally from the eastern shore of Maryland and grew up in the sailing community there. As a young man, he won many sailing regattas in the Chesapeake Bay and has continued his love of sailing throughout his life. He has been carving since he was five years old, taught by his grandfather, the noted decoy carver Ed Parsons.

After graduating from Webb Institute as a naval architect, he had a long successful career in the U.S. Navy in engineering and repair. Ted is noted for his full-size geese and ducks, as well as miniatures. He carved the full-sized series of black ducks that are dynamically positioned above the indoor L.L. Bean trout pond.

At the age of 93, he continues to carve miniature Canada geese. The exhibit will feature several brilliant watercolors by Ted and well as some of his famous shore birds and, of course, a gaggle of geese.

The Gold/Smith Gallery is celebrating it’s 41st summer season this year with exhibits also by John Vander, John Wissemann, John Kimball and Andre Benoit.

The gallery is located at 41 Commercial Street in Boothbay Harbor. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, call 207-633-6252.