Don Gorvett Gallery and Studio Gloucester

About Us

Don Gorvett is an artist and printmaker known for his large and powerful woodcuts of both maritime and architectural subjects. The Don Gorvett Gallery Portsmouth, located in historic downtown Portsmouth, NH, is celebrating 14 years of exhibiting and selling the work of Mr. Gorvett and other nationally known artists and printmakers. The Don Gorvett Gallery Portsmouth continues to be a destination for both local and visiting enthusiasts of Mr. Gorvett’s woodcuts and drawings.

2020 brings the celebrated launch of Mr. Gorvett’s new printmaking studio with additional gallery space to Gloucester, MA. The Don Gorvett Gallery & Studio Gloucester are located upstairs at the historic Beacon Marine Basin overlooking Gloucester Harbor.

About Don Gorvett
Don Gorvett was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1949, and raised within its environs of Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. Much of his youth was spent at the seashore swimming, fishing, and observing fishing-town industry. Don received an extraordinary art education under the tutelage of teacher Elinor Marvin. He moved to Gloucester after graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, to pursue a career in painting and woodcut printmaking. He divided his time between winters in Gloucester and summers in Ogunquit, Maine. In 1990 Don moved to Ogunquit and established his printmaking studio, and in 2006 Don Gorvett opened his first gallery in Portsmouth, NH., Piscataqua Fine Arts. In 2020 we have re-named the gallery to Don Gorvett Gallery.

Don continues to develop his work with the reduction woodcut technique as a new