Kate Cheney Chappell’s collagraph/ collage “Wintering Over,” will be part of the February show opening at The Schoolhouse Gallery Feb. 3. KINGFIELD — Opening Feb. 3, during the Kingfield First Friday Artwalk, the Schoolhouse Gallery will present the colorful and intriguing works of Dona Seegers and Kate Cheney Chappell.

An art educator in the Wayne and Mt. Vernon schools, Seegers’ work with paper and paint recalls the intricacy and movement of nature.

Founder along with her husband, Tom Chappell, of Tom’s of Maine, Kate Chappell’s art is a way to express her concern for humankind’s degradation of the environment.

The show will be on display until Feb. 29, followed by a March show featuring the publication of a new book by Eustis artist Marguerite Robichaux and essayist Elizabeth Peavey titled “Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Adventure and Friendship.” Eustis’ Hugh Verrier will also display his “Birds in Flight” in March.

Seegers’ work reflects an intimate interaction with her rural Maine environs in combination with personal metaphors. Using installation and mixed media, such as painted surfaces of paper, collage and hanging mobiles, she works hints of rock, bark, seeds and leaves often found near her home by Moose Pond in Mt. Vernon.

The Schoolhouse Gallery will feature two works, “Earth Squares” and “Seaweed Squares,” both non-traditional book “pages” that tell stories inspired by the color, texture and history of earth and ocean. Four sculpted hanging mobiles, “Qi,” “Camouflage,” “Water Lilies” and “Spirit Dance” will animate the gallery as they move in the surrounding air currents.

Chappell similarly works in a variety of mediums, including printmaking, mixed media, collage and installation. Her works are influenced by poetry and her awareness that we and other species are bound together in the great web of life. The Schoolhouse Gallery will feature work done during her recent residency at the Vermont Studio Workshop. The prints in the suite “Mountain/Time” reflect different ways of experiencing time in mountain environments. The poem “Wintering Over” is also the title of Chappell’s second series, which describes our desire to find safe burrows, dens and nests to protect and “winter over.”

The Schoolhouse Gallery also features the nature photography of John Orcutt and is open most days from noon to 6 p.m., or call for an appointment 939-6518. For information, visit www.schoolhouseartgallery.com.