NORWAY – Frost Farm Gallery will hold a First Friday reception Friday, Sept. 7, for an exhibit featuring the portraiture and landscape and still life work of Beverly Banks. It will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. in the gallery in the historic Frost farm at 272 Pikes Hill. Light refreshments will be served.

Initially inspired by painter Bob Ross and his PBS television series, Banks has been painting for 15 years. She has attended seminars at Pat Riley’s studio in Windham and Leon LeRoche’s studio in North Jay, and became certified as a portrait artist instructor in 2005.

She works in oils, acrylics and watercolors and especially likes doing portraits of people and animals. She has shown her works at a variety of shows and is a member of the Northeast Regional Art Association.

A native of Bethel, Banks moved to Lewiston in 1965, after graduating from St. Mary’ s School of Nursing. For the past 27 years, she has been employed at Central Maine Medical Center.

First Friday Artwalk Exhibits at Frost Farm Gallery are in conjunction with the Painted Mermaid Gallery, McLaughlin Gardens’ Art in the Barn and the Fare Share Commons Collective.

The art show will continue through Sept. 30. For more information, call 743-8041.