East Boothbay artist Andrea Peters has been with Gleason Fine Art for more than three decades. For this summer’s show, “35 Years of Color,” which runs through Sept. 8, with Andrea’s help, the gallery chose outstanding paintings from across her career, including several early paintings from her first days with Gleason Fine Art.

Andrea says of oil paints: “They have such flow. I can capture my energy or the energy of the place, the very spirit of the place, with oils.”

One arts writer, the late Phil Isaacson, the highly respected Portland newspapers art critic, loved Andrea’s use of color: “Peters’ Maine coast wriggles with color. Hues pile up in layers. Her style is gestural, spontaneous, and that quality builds a visual tempo. The Maine coast in Peters’s hands has become a center of visual energy.”

The world Andrea paints is right outside her Little River, East Boothbay, home and studio — salty inlets, mossy ledges, towering spruces, and lush flower and vegetable gardens. Andrea is Italian by heritage, so tomatoes and basil have to compete with tulips, poppies, daisies, lupines, and daylilies.

Andrea’s paintings pulse with color. Drifts of golden daylilies and white daisies spill over mauve ledges. Stands of spikey blue lupines are punctuated with brilliant red poppies. Her seas are painted with myriad shades of blue, while her big, puffy clouds are encircled in jaunty pinks and yellows.

A reception will be held on Friday, Aug. 7, from 5-7 p.m. Gleason Fine Art is at 31 Townsend Ave. in Boothbay Harbor. See more at gleasonfineart.com. The gallery can be reached at 207-633-6849 or [email protected].