The work of Walpole painter Susan Bartlett Rice is beautiful. In early 2017, Rice displayed a small collection of winter-inspired paintings at the Bristol Area Library. She currently has a fairly large exhibit of landscape and wildlife paintings on the walls of Savory Maine Dining & Provisions in Damariscotta. This is sure to delight her fans – and to create new fans for her lovely work.

The Bristol Road Galleries group in Damariscotta is participating in the Twin Villages ArtWalk in two ways this year. All four galleries on Bristol Road will be open and, in addition, the work of all four artists will be on display in a tent at the Damariscotta River Distribution at 68 Main St., Newcastle. The Bristol Road Galleries is a collaboration of four artists: watercolorists Jan Kilburn and Kathleen Horst, oil painter Will Kefauver, and sculptor Marnie Sinclair.

For the second year in a row, Aris Farm, a 44-acre working horse farm in Walpole, will be the setting for an evening of original plays presented by four members of a theater group from Winston-Salem, N.C.

Damariscotta River Grill will host three new artists with three distinctly different styles and mediums to welcome the summer art season. The show will open Monday, June 12 and will be on display through Monday, July 24. One can meet artists Lonie Laffely Ellis, Elaine Fletcher, and Diane Noble at the Art at the Grill opening reception, Wednesday, June 14, from 4-5:30 p.m. Enjoy beautiful art while savoring an array of delicious hors d’oeuvres.

Join artist Libbie Winslow for yet another paint night on Thursday, June 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Medomak Arts, 13 Friendship St., Waldoboro. Winslow will guide an acrylic painting session of a seasonal scene of a blossoming cherry tree glowing in the moonlight. Participants will go home with an original painting to frame or give as a gift.

The Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta presents the opening reception for the “A Taste of Pemaquid” art show. The reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, June 3, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The show runs through Sunday, June 25.

On Wednesday, June 7 at 10 a.m., New York Times bestselling author Linda Greenlaw will once again speak at Skidompha Library, at 184 Main St. in Damariscotta, as part of its Chats with Champions series. Greenlaw will discuss her newest mystery, “Silver Hitch,” the third in her Jane Bunker series.

Carlo Albucci is a Florentine painter focused on very curious happenings. He paints the ironic, the iconic, and surreal, poignant, and comic events – sometimes all together in one painting.

A special summer exhibit, “Dungeons and Dragons: Seafarers and Tattoos,” opens on Saturday, June 10 at the Lincoln County Historical Association’s Old Jail Museum on Federal Street in Wiscasset. The setting is very appropriate for this exhibit, since the seafarers adorned with tattoos were often “guests” of the jail.