CRESTVIEW — Two area artists draw on nature for exhibits on display at the Crestview Public Library.
In the lobby display cases, Carolyn Stewart combines miniature hand-bound books and textured papers with natural elements including sticks, seashells, sand, gravel and logs.
Her whimsical, dimensional art includes “Tiny Thoughts,” which is composed of miniature cloth-bound books hanging from the branches of stout twigs set in a log.
“Atlas” is a miniature made of cut-up maps perched in the crook of a tree-like branch, while “A Song on the Wind” is a tiny book of sheet music set on a branch trimmed to look like a wind-blown old tree.
On the north display wall, photographer Opal Westmoreland shares images grounded primarily in nature: a leaf floating in a still pond — or is it a puddle? There’s a sheen that could be drops of oil.
Westmoreland finds beauty in city parks and local forests and gardens. Close-ups of flowers in bloom reveal details the eye commonly skims over.
And then there are rustic scenes the photographer’s eye sees in ways others’ don’t. An orange antique car, for example, turns out to be art someone else painted on a weathered metal roll-up garage door.
Both exhibits will be up through April.
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