Orcas Library artist for March is Peter Carlson

— from Dave Kosiur —

Every month, the Orcas Island Library exhibits new works of art by local artists. This month the library is featuring paintings by Peter Carlson. Peter is a self-taught painter, pursing that art for the past twenty years, and has lived on Orcas Island for the past eight years. His work has been shown across the country and in Europe, including San Francisco, Portugal, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Peter grew on an island in SE Alaska which was, as he put it “the edge of the earth, a landscape battered by storms, carpeted with moss, and the people who lived there were bound together by the stories they told. I grew up listening to those stories, and my work comes from the same narrative tradition.” Come see his work on display in the Orcas Island Library during the month of March.