Ashley Medowski Show at Saltwater

Ask about Keith Farm, one of Island artist Ashley Medowski’s new works, and she says, “It’s a serene picture you can dive into.”

Diving in is exactly what you want to do with Medowski’s mixed media assemblages, works you might call paintings-plus.

Keith’s Farm features in the foreground a three-dimensional mosaic stonewall made out of tiny beach stones; if you could just dive past it, you could get to that pond and ocean flirting from the background.

On Saturday, between Uncle Seth’s Pond and the Lambert’s Cove beach, Medowski is mixing it up again for her once-a-summer reception at the Saltwater Gallery, itself a recycled work of art.

Her trademark whimsy will be there. Queen Ann’s Lace has flowers of antique lace sewn through the painted canvas. In the shadow box piece Monarch Migration, the three-dimensional butterfly is a puppet and can fly.

Medowski recalls a memory of her great-uncle Franklin to capture an authentic image of the working fisherman in the painting Franklin Benson Going Seining at Long Bottom Cove. It’s all mixed in with new seaglass jewelry and mosaic seaglass windows.

The show is called Island History, Flora and Fauna, and the party is Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. with refreshments, entertainment and that breathtaking view of James Pond, at 367 Lambert’s Cove Road in West Tisbury. For details, call 508-696-8822.