Approaching her 90th birthday, life-long summer resident Josephine Thoms is celebrating works new and old with an exhibit at the Onset Creative Arts Association Gallery, located at 38 Zarahemla Road off Onset Avenue in Onset.

The exhibit will open Friday, July 1 with a reception at 4:00 p.m. The gallery will remain open through Tuesday, July 5 with hours from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily. All works are modestly priced and may be purchased and taken home at the end of the show.

Thoms describes this year’s exhibit as “eclectic." Thoms said she used various media for the artwork— oils, pastels, acrylics, and water colors.

"My subjects range still life ‘easel’ paintings and other studio work as well as a new spiritual landscape of our Onset touchstone, Wickets Island.”

A graduate of Hillsdale College, Thoms holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute of Art. She taught at several colleges, was Artist-in-Residence at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and was an illustrator for the state of Maryland’s Scenic and Wild Rivers Program for 18 years.

Over the years, she has been the recipient of painting and sculpture prizes from the National Academy of Design (NYC), the Corcoran School of Art (D.C.) and the National Association of Women Artists (NYC). She is an exhibiting member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters.

At the conclusion of her show at the Onset Creative Arts Association Gallery, Thoms will be available for conversation, portrait commissions, and sales of prints and in her summer home, Mount Hope Cottage, 7 Prospect Avenue, on Saturdays and Sundays during July and August from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.