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The Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center is pleased to announce an opening reception for “Life in Miniature” an Atrium exhibit of miniature oil paintings by “the Iris Apfel of Wellsboro,” Maureen Babb. The reception will be held on Saturday, February 4th from 2-4PM. Maureen is a well-known member of the Wellsboro Art Club who works in a variety of media. Maureen will give an artist’s talk at 3PM to explain how she started making these tiny paintings. Light refreshments will be served at the reception, which is free and open to the public.

Maureen Babb, who is originally from Jersey Shore, took oil painting lessons as a teenager, but did not paint in the medium again until four years ago. When she first took up the brush again, she thought she would try her hand at miniatures to see how it went. She uses her own photographs as inspiration for each piece. She chooses photos that evoke feelings for her due to their subject matter, color, or the memory associated with them. And then she very, very precisely paints them. Maureen hopes that viewers like the display and that it inspires them to try something they may have given up on. She says, “You just don’t know what you can do unless you try!”

“Life in Minature” will be on display in the Atrium Gallery of the Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center from Saturday, February 4 through Sunday, February 26. The Gmeiner is open from 12-6PM Tuesdays through Sundays and is located at 134 Main Street in Wellsboro behind the Green Free Library. Admission to the gallery is free.