PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Wintergreen Arts Center is featuring the work of local artist Joanna Doughty during October and will host an opening reception for her show, “Lady Nature and Witches’ Brooms,” as part of the Oct. 5 First Friday Downtown Art Walk.
The reception is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The artist’s husband, Josh Doughty, will provide music with guitar, keyboard and vocals. Refreshments will be served.
“This is Joanna’s third showing at Wintergreen,” said Dottie Hutchins, Wintergreen’s executive director. “This show concentrates on acrylic paintings, unique sculptures made from witches’ brooms, and continues to highlight Joanna’s love of nature. Joanna is an incredible talent and is very special to all of us here at Wintergreen.”
“My show is about the natural beauty of northern Maine with a bit of lady nature thrown in the mix,” said Doughty, “and some sculptures of birds and figures made from witches’ brooms that I’ve harvested from the woods.”
Doughty studied sculpture and painting at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. She was born in Canada in 1986, and grew up in the border town of Van Buren, surrounded by Acadian culture. Much of the inspiration for her work comes from the northern Maine landscape and culture.
“I hope people will feel a sense of connection to the beating heart of northern Maine, as though the forest and land here were a breathing being, and connected to us all,” she said.
Doughty and her husband currently live in Presque Isle with their dogs Bam and Murphy.
