Kalispell artist featured at Phillips Studio in July

Kalispell resident Marsha Davis’ new exhibit, "A Slice of Montana," will be featured now through July 31 at Phillips Studio & Gallery in the Kalispell Center Mall. Davis will be at the gallery for a First Friday opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. July 2.

Davis, a landscape, figurative and still life artist, works in watercolor and oil, painting in the style of Impressionistic Realism. She is an award-winning Signature member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters, the Montana Watercolor Society, and an Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America.

Davis moved to Kalispell in 1972 with her husband, Dr. Jack Davis, raising two kids and a herd of Limousin cattle on their ranch. After she donated one of her paintings to a Junior Association of Limousin Cattle fundraiser, she remembers the phone call when she was told her painting had sold for $32,000.

While Marsha Davis was donating art to help others, Jack was helping to create the ALERT emergency helicopter service based at Kalispell Regional Hospital. They also traveled to Chacala, Mexico, where Jack worked with a Rotary project in the schools and Marsha taught art to the children.

She has traveled throughout Montana with artist friends, as well as Arizona, and Italy and the world, which connects her to the subjects she paints in plein-air and later develops into finished paintings in her studio. She maintains a studio in Kalispell and Green Valley, Arizona.