LÉA PETERSON’S paintings will be on display at the Georgetown Town Office Gallery through March.
Georgetown’s Town Office Gallery will feature the paintings of Léa Peterson through March 30.
A lifetime artist, she was formally trained at the University of Maryland. Peterson began a career in corporate communications, but 10 years ago moved to Georgetown and committed to painting full time.
Often working in a series, she investigates light, color and form in the landscape, people at work, boats, birds or the sea. According to information provided by the gallery, she attempts to transcend the ordinary and evoke the goodness of life. Working both in her studio and outdoors, she works six to seven hour days as a practice that provides her increased facility and pure solace.
The series of paintings in the exhibition celebrates the working life of Georgetown Island and its fishermen/ women. The fracturing of light on a rough sea, the brilliance of wet oilskins in the sun, the geometric repetition of a lobster trap, and the gracefully carved lines of our neighbors’ faces traversing their daily routine are all building blocks of Peterson’s colorful paintings on exhibit at the Town Office Gallery this winter.
Peterson, with four others, co-founded the Old Post Office Gallery in Georgetown in 2008. In
2012, with eight others, she co-founded the Centre Street Arts Gallery in Bath. Her work is represented by Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth.
The gallery is open during town office hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, excluding the lunch hour from noon to 1 p.m. (please call ahead in bad weather). The town office is located at 50 Bay Point Road in Georgetown.
For people interested in showing their work at the Town Office Gallery, contact Susie Wren at westisle@myfairpoint.net or (207) 371-9106. Shows are already being booked into the spring and summer.
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