A selection of new oil paintings by local artist Susan Bartlett Rice are on display at Savory Maine through July 3.

Rice’s recent paintings of Maine woods and agriculture feature vibrant color, and her style lies somewhere between representational and abstract, she said.

“Lately my eye has been drawn to the more geometric patterns both natural and man-made: ice breaking up in a cove, polkadots created by blossoms against the sky or the vertical lines repeating in pilings under a dock. I’m always trying to push my palette to explore new color combinations,” she said.

In addition to her studio work, Rice recently completed a colorful mural measuring 60 feet wide of clamdiggers, which can be viewed at the intersection of Washington and Congress Streets in downtown Portland.

This year, Rice has also been selected by The Harlow Gallery as one of 13 artist/farm partnerships for Community Supporting Arts project taking place across Maine in 2017. Participating artists began visiting their partner farms regularly beginning in January, at the very start of the 2017 growing season, creating art inspired by their farmers’ lives, work and landscape. Rice is partnered with Tarbox Farm on Westport Island.

Rice moved to Midcoast Maine as a teenager and graduated from Lincoln Academy. She holds a BA in in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Vermont and has been employed by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Rhode Island School of Design. Her paintings have been widely exhibited and collected and her work was featured by Downeast Magazine in 2015. Her Walpole studio is open to the public.

For more information about the artist visit susanbartlettrice.com.