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WEST PARIS — The West Paris Library gallery is displaying pieces — mostly paintings donated by members and friends — from its permanent collection.

“West Paris Bridge,” an acrylic painting by Isaac Liimatta, is his senior project presented to the library just before his 2016 graduation. It has a compelling geometric simplicity, it is peacefully uncluttered.

While Liimatta was painting, fellow student Ian Floster constructed two Adirondack chairs for the library’s front lawn as his senior project.

Another three-dimensional piece is a miniature of the original castle-style library building crafted by Mike Dean. Weathered wood mimics the fieldstone of the walls.

Another sculpture is the “Story Teller,” a group project by Agnes Gray School first-graders in 2011.

Dog in the Sun” is a watercolor recently given by another beginning artist, 6-year-old Kya Smith.

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A collection of scratch board drawings was given by fourth-graders at the Agnes Gary School in 2011, and more recently the West Paris Explorers presented a lively “Thank You” painting.

On the whole, the collection is predominately paintings, many of them keenly observed local landscapes. They include: Marguerite Johnson’s “High Street in West Paris, looking across to Mountains;” “Old Andrews Casket Mill at South Woodstock” by Carolyn Emery; “Snow Falls” by Sheridan McLaughlin; and “The Mann Castle Library” by Sonya Pearson.

Other subjects are the “Pemaquid Lighthouse” by Sharon Mann Iozzo, “Spring Flowers” by Martha Day, and Eda Waterhouse’s “Ten Commandments.”

Photography completes the show; nature is its main theme. Milt Inman has given the library the poetic “Lady Slippers,” while Michael Payer gifted an extraordinary close-up of a “Bee on Cosmos” and “Moose in Salt Yard.” Ernest Gurney’s architectural detail of the castle door completes the show.

The West Paris Library’s permanent collection can be viewed through January from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Monday and Friday; 1:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

FMI: 207-674-2004.

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