PARIS — “One Woman’s Journey: the Art of Jane Porter Gibson,” an exhibit featuring linoleum block prints designed as Christmas cards over the years, will open at the West Paris Library on Friday, Dec. 17.

A reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.

Each of the prints captures a moment in Gibson’s life shared with her husband, Bill, on their Stearns Hill farm. It might be a rooster signaling the dawn, a black cat pausing at the farmhouse’s snowy doorway or steam rising from the sugarhouse in the spring air.

The show traces the artistic journey of a woman with many interests, including a lifelong fascination with older houses, as seen in her pieces titled “Red House” and “White House in Moonlight.” Her appreciation of village scenes and cityscapes is evident in artwork titled “Boston Remembered,” “Front Street” and “Abbott Hall, Marblehead.”

Gibson, a fourth-grade teacher in the Agnes Gray school community and SAD 17’s first art teacher, expresses her love of teaching in her “Red Rover” and “Hansel & Gretel” prints.

Gibson’s first art class was at a small college in Nebraska where she majored in English literature, followed by graduate study in art education at Columbia Teacher’s College in New York City.

Besides linoleum block printing, she has worked in oils, crayons, ink and collage.

The library is open from 1:30 to 6 p.m. on Monday and Friday; 1:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday through Jan. 29. For more information, call 674-2004.