Painter Bryce Cloutier is the Featured Artist through October in the Art and Ale window at Gritty’s in Auburn. Submitted photo

Painter Bryce Cloutier is the Featured Artist through October in the Art and Ale window at Gritty’s in Auburn.

Cloutier is an artist and a cook from Lewiston. A lifelong drawer and painter, he incorporated his love of art into his passion for cooking. However, after attending the Culinary Institute of America, he realized that the fast paced, intense environment that goes hand-in-hand with Michelin star cooking was not part of his passion. After coming back home, he used painting to bring himself back to who he used to be. He has always had a want to create and is always doing so. He soon realized that painting was his way of expressing his full imagination, and uses this creative freedom to just be himself.

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