Artist Will Kefauver’s art show, “Field, Forest, and Shore — Works in Oil by Will Kefauver,” opens on Saturday, July 25, at the Hall Gallery at the Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta. The show run through Friday, Sept. 4.

Will Kefauver, of the Kefauver Studio & Gallery, Damariscotta, is an award-winning oil painter. He returned to painting after many years in the publishing industry as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director and executive. His work depicts the moods of the landscapes of Maine and New England, from the rugged barns and beaches of Midcoast Maine, to the silver birches of a Vermont river.

Kefauver’s first love is the landscape and the colors and shapes defined by the changing light. Of particular fascination is the abstraction found in nature — whether in the forms of clouds doused by light or the interwoven branches of barren trees.

He has both studied and been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts and the Katonah Arts Center in New York. His course of study has included instruction from Robert Speier, Milton Glaser, William P. Duffy, and Jock MacRae. Among the artists who have influenced him most significantly, Kefauver cites Corot for his use of atmospheric perspective, Frank Benson for the energy of his composition, and Wolf Kahn, who can find color anywhere.

Kefauver is an elected artist and vice president of the Pemaquid Group of Artists.  He is a signature member of the National Society of Artists and the Bristol Road Galleries in Damariscotta. He was also an elected artist and a board member and vice president of the Kent Art Association in Connecticut.

All works in Kefauver’s show are for sale, with a portion of each sale supporting Miles Memorial Hospital. To visit his show at the hospital, go to Miles Memorial Hospital at 35 Miles Drive, approximately .6 miles from the heart of downtown Damariscotta.

For more information about Kefauver’s work or his art instruction, go to www.kefauverstudio.com, email him at will@kefauverstudio.com or call his gallery at 207-226-0974.

The Kefauver Studio & Gallery is open every day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at 144 Bristol Road, Damariscotta.