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Ready For My Close-Up - June Martin
Published in Portland Magazine, July 2006
 You never know who's painting on the easel beside you at Piper Shores. "I started out in a costume house, then worked on Broadway," says June Martin, 76, retired costumier living at Piper Shores in Scarborough. "I designed for Tammy Grimes, Helen Hayes, Lotte Lenya, and Ingrid Bergman. I met Begman in 1972, while she was starring in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion. She was just so sweet!"
As part of a unique residents' painting program at Piper Shores, Martin and husband Russell are inspired by the same landscapes Winslow Homer used to gaze at from his studio steps away on Prouts Neck. "The landscape and water entice you. There's something special about the light in Maine." As for her oversized, Hollywood-glamour frames? "I've had these for 20 years! Everything eventually comes back in style."
- Kira Chappelle.
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