New art gallery opens in downtown Columbia Falls

“One of the fondest memories I have from my childhood is the summer holidays in the south of Portugal on an island that is quite small. You have to go around pretty much walking, there are no roads or cars, it’s just the sand and the sea,” artist Lucia de Brito Franco said, surrounded by the vibrant and flowing layers of paint that make up her artwork, and now her art gallery. 

“That’s where my first inspiration started for my artwork.”

The Lucia de Brito Franco Art Gallery is a brand new Columbia Falls feature, located at 638 Nucleus Avenue, Suite 103. It contains not only de Brito Franco’s work — reminiscent of looking up through blue waters or thick canopies — but that of other local artists also inspired by the energy and beauty of nature.