BELFAST — Rockland-based painter Marli Thibodeau will be the featured guest artist for August at Local Color Gallery.

Thibodeau’s work is influenced by the natural world and is abstract or non-objective. Deeply influenced by the Abstract Expressionist movement and artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Franz Kline, her paintings don’t reference recognizable form, according to Local Color, in a news release. Instead, the works are composed of opaque and transparent layers representing the ongoing dialog between painter and painting. She creates intense personal moments on the canvas by questioning what is here now, present within. Thibodeau has studied both art and movement.

“Everyone has a unique way of expressing the experience of who they are,” she says, “and I’ve discovered that mine is through un-choreographed visual and movement art.”

The landscapes of Maine infuse Thibodeau’s work with a sense of awe and appreciation.

“I create my work to give voice to a wild sense of beauty, the excitement of discovery, and to nurture the spark of what is possible,” said Thibodeau.

Thibodeau’s work will be at Local Color Gallery from July 31-August 27.

Local Color Gallery, 135 High St., is open seven days a week, Monday-Saturday, 11-5, Sunday, 11-4. For details, visit localcolorgallerymaine.org.