Nancy Freeman, founder of Round Top Center for the Arts and a prolific painter and printmaker, will be honored with an exhibition of her work at The Gallery at Round Top Farm, Damariscotta, from September 27 through October 20. An opening reception will be held on September 27 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Freeman has been creating art for over 50 years. With an associate’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1946, she went on to study art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University, and received her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia in 1970. After spending many summers in Maine, she became a year-round resident in 1983 and formed Round Top Center for the Arts on her family’s land and former dairy farm in Damariscotta. She served as its artistic director until 2002 and was on its board until its closing in 2007.

The land, along with its farmhouse and Darrow’s Barn, which are still used today for art exhibits and musical performances, Freeman donated to the Damariscotta River Association for preservation.

Freeman’s work, which has become more abstract over the years, explores shapes and color in rhythmic patterns. This rhythmic quality, as well as the overall abstract nature of her art, reveals the influence of music, which was her focus of study before visual art. Other inspirations have come from oriental thought and gardening. Her goal in art, she has said, is a “striving for clarity.”

Gallery hours for the show will be Wednesdays through Sundays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The exhibit is organized by Yvette Torres, who has shown Freeman’s work at her former gallery in Damariscotta and in Rockland. The Farm Gallery is on Business Route 1 in Damariscotta.

For more information, call 888-777-1077.