Local artists Mary Spencer and Anne Sargent Walker present paintings that explore our relationship with nature in this two-person exhibition at Fountain Street Fine Art, October 13 – November 13. A reception will be held Saturday October 22, from 5-7 PM.

Using acrylics, Mary Spencer paints a fossil fantasy world with realistic drawings of primitive life-forms. As species evolve over millions of years and others disappear, fossils are a reminder that we are all but a fragile presence on the planet’s shell. The sea swells dark and deep, holding fathomless secrets…. fossilized yet luminous.

Anne Sargent Walker’s mixed media paintings explore the beauty, complexity and fragility of the natural world, and our complicated relationship with it. The surface content of birds, flora and other creatures often degrades, peels back, dissolves or drips to reveal layers underneath, suggesting loss of habitat, species, the earth itself and, of course, us.