Damariscotta’s Savory Maine Dining & Provisions, 1 Water St., will present the unique artwork of Harpswell artist Hati Modr in an exhibit set for June 15 to July 25.

Harmony, balance and an abstract quality underlie Hati’s representational work. Her still life and landscape oil paintings are inspired by sunlight and the shadows it casts. Walking on Monhegan Island and around Harpswell on sunny Maine days, images beg to be drawn: boats leaning up against the back of a shed in early morning light, shadows of the building next to it at Fish Beach, a friend’s porch in afternoon sunshine.

Hati has been drawing and painting since she was a child, and music has also been an important part of her life. She attended the New England Conservatory of Music and then seriously began studying art with Michael Lewis at the University of Maine at Orono. She studied watercolor painting with Viola Lyman, oil painting with Alfred Chadbourn, and the Renaissance technique with Alex Gnidziejko. In England she studied sculpture with Jane Hamilton. A graduate of the Baldwin School, she completed her Associate Art degree at the University of Maine, Augusta.

In her studio, one of the oldest structures in Harpswell which she and her husband saved in 1991, she paints her landscapes and still life.

A working member of the Stable Gallery in Damariscotta, right down the street from Savory Maine, Hati views the arts as a way to create community, bringing people together to view art and create it. In this busy world, the quiet energy and intense focus of the process of painting invokes an island of calm. Hati’s paintings are in collections around the United States and in England, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Holland.

There will be a reception from 3-5 p.m., Friday, June 24, at Savory Maine.

For more information, call 563-2111, or visit www.savorymainedining.com.