Mother-daughter exhibit features Waterville Valley artists, Birdie Britton and her daughter Kerry Corcoran

WATERVILLE VALLEY — The Margret and H.A. Rey Center Art Gallery will open an exhibit entitled "In the Company of Tress", a mother-daughter exhibit featuring two local Waterville Valley artists, Birdie Britton and her daughter Kerry Corcoran, on July 4.

This exhibit will focus on each artist's fascination with trees and how each interprets the characteristics of some favorite trees through different media, Birdie with her twig sculptures and Kerry through her monotype print techniques.

"In the Company of Trees" is showing July 4 – July 28, at the Rey Center Gallery. Meet the artists at a Gallery Reception on Saturday July 14 at 6:30 pm. The reception is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Kerry Corcoran, a native of Waterville Valley, now resides in the mountain town of Bozeman, Montana where she teaches art Bozeman High School. Her inspiration is centered around her fascination with old snags. She finds a great sense of energy through the gestural animation they possess along with their representation of stillness and solitude.

Birdie Britton, Waterville Valley's artist-in-residence, is inspired much the same as her daughter but has a completely different interpretation of that inspiration. Birdie says, "This exhibit presents some trees we care about, ones we know well and revisit in imagination and in the world.''

Birdie has studied art throughout this country and abroad. She has headed art departments in Massachusetts, Spain and right here in Waterville.

Margret and H.A. Rey, authors of the Curious George children's books series and former summer residents of Waterville Valley, were artists and adventurers, historians and naturalists, gardeners and environmental stewards.