Center Gallery features “Postcards From The Lake”

From staff reports

There’ll be “Postcards From The Lake,” an exhibition of work celebrating summer at the cottage by painter Peggy Hawley and twig furniture maker Bill Perkins, from July 25-31 at the Lake Street Studios Center Gallery in Glen Arbor. A reception opens the show on July 25 at 6 p.m.

Hawley, a Frankfort resident, has created a series of narrative paintings that are vignettes from an imagined summer vacation at Lake Michigan. Her oil paintings express a dream-like quality of remembrance, summer light and old cottages with rowboats on the shore. Postcards with quick jottings accompany each painting, and tell a short story about each of the works.

Perkins was first introduced to the idea of making furniture from branches, twigs and bark when he was a child visiting an “up-north cottage.” The Cedar resident’s work evokes the tradition of Adirondack camp furniture and the Arts and Crafts Movement aesthetic.

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