When the Jacarandas bloom in Mexico City, people paint their homes purple. How does color, nature, the seasons and fine art affect your heart, your life?

Often at Kingston Art Gallery we hear “we just don’t have any more wall space.” I know about that. The artists of the gallery suggest considering gently tucking away some of your two dimensional art and having a seasonal change. You can find no better place for fine local art to give your life a lift.

You can brighten your October with Kingston Art Gallery’s Artoberfest Come experience what we have cooked up for the Kingston community Oct. 7 through Nov. 8, with featured artists Marylyn Miller and Dawn Henthorn (we are open Wednesday through Sunday). Both are founding members of our 24 artist cooperative. Their Artoberfest Second Saturday Gallery Night is 5 – 8 p.m. Oct. 10.

Henthorn continues to innovate with her color-filled, free-form pottery bird baths and bird feeders (depending on the season). They’ll bring zing to your green. Her three-dimensional wall sculptures are of paper clay, a light, bendable medium where the paper burns out of the clay during firing. Hand-carved soap stone, inspired by her Alaskan roots, join her new table and wall sculptures.

A serious painter for over 30 years, Miller’s “acrylages” are an evolution of technical process and concept. She fractures images from the natural world using tissue paper and acrylics. With contrasts in warm/cool, opaque/transparent, dark/light, her collages invite the viewer to use their own lens for the adventures to be found within.

Kingston Art Gallery is the place to be to celebrate “Artoberfest” with savories, sweets and sips and amazing joyful, colorful art and artists. Come on in, the art is fine.