The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON-Rey's Roast Coffee is displaying a new exhibit by artist Mary Davies Kerns during November and December. The Dayton coffee shop hosts the artist on Saturday November 2 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. for a presentation about her work.

Stratocumulus clouds, columnar basalt, cirrus clouds, cumulonimbus clouds, basin and range, dissected lava plains, sagebrush steppe, juniper and aspen, new grass in the spring. These are what Mary Davies Kerns wants the viewer to fantasize about when viewing her paintings. A feeling of space, freedom, and open horizons.

After thirty years as a professional a...