River Arts in Damariscotta is set to reopen Saturday, Feb. 5 with a show of artwork created by River Arts volunteers.
This River Room show, which honors the work of five of the gallery’s volunteers, will run Feb. 5-23 at the 36 Elm St. gallery.
Judy Nixon works with watercolor, gouache, and acrylic. Nixon’s artistic approach is anchored in her personal connection to the subject, with light and color playing an important part of the design. She loves to paint scenes from her home region in Maine, the Pemaquid Peninsula and Monhegan Island, according to a news release from the gallery.
Holly Anderson Baumm presents works in fiber and in paper collage. Her fiber collage integrates a variety of textiles with knitting, sewing, and embroidery. The complex paper collage combines painting and drawing. The two works are the same genre, the common denominator being abstraction with symbolism.
Gerd Koehler works as a painter and photographer. Koehler is drawn to the conceptual. He loves detail, granularity and the freedom to paint without constraints. He finds visual solutions for the real and the imagined. His challenge lies between the structured and unstructured.
Combining her love of drawing, color, and nature, Cheryl Young enjoys telling a story in her artwork. Raising domestic animals and interacting with wild creatures, Young became fascinated with the texture, patterns and colors of animal fur, skin and feathers, which she translates in colored pencil, ink and watercolor pencil.
Alice de Mauriac introduces three new, color-rich, abstract paintings. “Painting is a courageous journey into the unknown and a glimpse into the future,” she said of her process. “No one has been there, including me. An adventure of pushing materials, my aim is to surprise myself with something I haven’t seen before.”
In conjunction with the show, River Arts opens with the continuation of the holiday show. The gallery’s winter hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, contact River Arts at [email protected] or 207-563-6868.
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