A couple of local organizations will get a boost from the sale of works by a local artist.

Close to 40 paintings created by the late Danna Winters are currently on display at the Town Hall Arts and Cultural Centre in Liverpool.

General manager Jean Robinson-Dexter says the idea to sell the paintings came about after the collection came to the owner of the Liverpool Buy and Sell, Colleen Baggs.

Robinson-Dexter says Baggs wanted the artwork to benefit local organizations, “and wanted to share them with the community which is a wonderful gift on her part.”

Robinson-Dexter says the paintings are all priced under a hundred dollars and proceeds will be evenly split between the Liverpool Arts Society and the Liverpool Firefighters Association.

She says most of the paintings have a distinctly local flavour.

“Scenes, primarily, from in and around Queens County, with a few exceptions,” said Robinson-Dexter. “There are winter scenes and there are water scenes and there are ocean scenes and lake and that kind of thing. A really beautiful variety of work.”

Robinson-Dexter says the exhibit has been successful so far, even expanding to include more of Winter’s art.

‘When Colleen came and saw the arts up on the walls in our downstairs gallery, she then donated the quilt,” said Robinson-Dexter. “ Then a few days later they returned with this great box of Christmas ceramic figures.”

Robinson-Dexter says a third of the paintings have already sold.

The exhibit will run until the first week of January.

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