With a whiff of fall crispness in the air and crunching leaves at foot, local painter Maureen Welter escapes to the French countryside with her new series entitled, Autumn in Provence.  Welter’s unique style of encaustic painting, where simple forms are encapsulated in highly burnished wax surfaces, works to capture the joie de vivre of colloquial life.  Children at play, market goers, and pastoral landscapes combine to convey the bucolic feel present in so many of the Mediterranean Sea Villages.  Whether your vantage point is the French country side or a Midwestern jaunt to pick apples in the fall, Welter’s work strives to embrace the beauty and enchantment of everyday life that surrounds us.