'Potpourri' -- An Art Show at Kent Memorial Library

Two long-time painting aficionados — Mary Barnes and Elizabeth Parker — will be sharing their artistic creativity with the community for the month of August.

The women, long-standing members of the Tobacco Valley Artists Association who live in Enfield, will be exhibiting their artwork in a show titled “Potpourri,” that opens Monday, Aug. 4 at the Pinney Gallery in the Kent Memorial library in Suffield.

According to Barnes’s daughter Bonnie Pepper, “They have had a couple of paintings hanging in Tobacco Valley shows but this is the first time they are having their own show.” Each woman will be displaying 30 paintings of travel memories, flowers and still life, in watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Pepper said, “My mother and her friend are not professional artists but they love to paint. They have decided to have a showing of their work for all to come and see. These are two … ladies who raised families and then went back to their love of art. I’m proud of them.”

There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 7. The show will be on view through Friday, Aug. 22.

The library gallery is at 50 North Main St., Suffield.

Photo: A still life by Elizabeth Parker.