Enchant ME: The Art of Peter Walls

The Belfast Poetry Festival announces an exhibit celebrating the work of our Festival Artist, Peter Walls, will be on display throughout the month of October in the Kramer Gallery and in the Abbott Room, both located on the ground floor of the Belfast Free Library.

All are invited to the opening reception for “Enchant Me: The Art of Peter Walls” Thursday October 9, 6- 7:30 pm in the Kramer Gallery, Belfast Free Library 106 High Street, Belfast.

The exhibit, “Enchant ME” includes works from several of his series—Something The Birds Told Me is an ongoing conversation with the Maine birds. Time Amongst Trees are three tondo paintings from an installation in 2023 at The Parsonage Gallery in Searsport, Maine. The shaped landscape paintings are from Peter’s most recent exhibition, Memory Palace, at The Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine, and in the Abbott Room are a few works from Peter’s Penobscot collection which focuses on the Penobscot watershed.

Peter is a renowned muralist and studio Artist living and working in Stockton Springs, Maine with his artist wife Allegra Kuhn.He has been a practicing studio Artist for over 30 years and his paintings can be seen regularly in many Maine venues. Peter is also currently Public Art Liaison for Waterfall Arts in Belfast, Maine and works with Bangor Beautiful regularly where he mentors, teaches, and encourages Public Art making throughout Maine. He recently completed his first solo museum exhibition at the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor and his work can be experienced at Blue Raven Gallery in Rockland, Maine. To learn more about Peter, visit www.peterwallsstudio.com.

For more information and the full schedule of the Belfast Poetry Festival visit www.belfastpoetryfestival.com.

About the Gallery:

The Barbara Kramer Gallery at the Belfast Free Library, located on the ground floor, was named in memory of Barbara Kramer who was an ardent supporter of the visual arts in the Midcoast area in the 1980s until her death in 1998. When the library was undergoing a significant expansion in the late 1990s, a group of area residents with the encouragement of the Library Board of Trustees raised funds to create this special exhibition space where art and or other materials relating to the history of the library or Belfast can be displayed.