Patricia Doyle & Manny Lopez exhibitions

Two artists whose work has developed over decades share the space at Marcia Butt Gallery through Saturday, July 26.

A solo show of Patricia Doyle’s vividly abstracted, almost visionary, acrylic landscapes — familiar to patrons since our first exhibition of her work in January of 2000 — are hung on walls near Manny Lopez’s oil paintings of local landscapes rendered luminous by his use of color and passion for both nature and art.

Both artists started painting as young untutored teens and made their way through adult life squeezing the practice of painting into in short hours between school, family, and work in and outside the home.

Perseverance and learning by doing created two elders whose works have the energy of youth.

This exhibition shows what two lifetimes of “figuring it out” can look like.