The Pemaquid Watershed Association (PWA) office-gallery is hosting the artwork of Damariscotta artist Marnie Sinclair. Her show of sculptures and mixed media pieces is called “Magical Adaptations in Nature,” at the PWA office-gallery.

Sinclair is a process artist who uses nature as her primary inspiration. She grew up in the tropics and spent a great deal of her youth studying the lush flora and fauna that surrounded her Cuban home. Sinclair’s interest in and love of the environment, with all its creatures, continued on into adulthood; she has combined scientifically researched stories with interpretative art.

“For eight years, my passion has been to understand the balance and imbalance found in nature,” said Sinclair. “My initial research started with climate change and environmental degradation, which threaten the perfect magical adaptations found in multiple species and their habitats. The amazing symbiosis, texture, patterns, colors, and camouflage that has insured species survival and sustainable environments are now in jeopardy.

“The unfolding stories are not only fascinating but often overwhelming,” she said. “In order for me to maintain my own balance, I found that I needed to use my art as a counterbalance to the often scary news. Each researched story tickled my imagination by taking on a visual form which I used to inspire an aesthetic interpretation. I hope that the viewer finds the same buffer of comfort in the often playful work that I discovered while making it.”

This past year she also wrote a book, entitled “Balance & Imbalance: A Celebration of Nature and a Call to Action,” which includes her entire collection of art that is related to the magical qualities in nature vs. man’s influences on the environment. Sinclair has her book on sale at PWA. In addition she has a video on Climate Change, ‘Nature’s Spin through Art’, which is on YouTube, which features three experts in the field telling the story of climate change. She has used her art to illustrate their woven stories.

Marnie Sinclair’s art exhibit can be viewed weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. by visiting PWA’s office at 584 Main St. in Damariscotta, which is across from Young’uns. The show will be up through Friday, July 13. Sinclair is donating 35 percent of proceeds from sales of the artwork to support PWA’s mission-driven work.

For more information on PWA, call 563-2196 or go to pemaquidwatershed.org.