120-foot-long watercolor details our local environs

Roseate Spoonbills, watercolor on paper, 29.5-by-42 inches, by Kathy Spalding. Naples artist Kathy Spalding creates monumental bronze sculptures, paintings and prints featuring Florida's diverse and abundant wildlife.

"Kathy Spalding: The Rookery Bay Continuum," featuring a 120-foot-long watercolor painting, will be on exhibit July 25-Sept. 12 in the Frederick O. Watson Gallery at The von Liebig Art Center. In a series of 3½-foot-long panels, the delicately rendered painting is a landscape cross-section beginning in the Gulf of Mexico and moving uninterrupted across bays, estuaries and mangroves. Then it enters the Everglades and moves across the lowlands before coming to its completion in the high pine flat woods.

Also featured in the exhibition are life-sized bronze animal sculptures.

A reception for "Kathy Spalding: The Rookery Bay Continuum" takes place from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at The von Liebig. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday (closed Sundays until Oct. 3). For more information, call 262-6517 or visit: www.naplesart.org.

Barred Owls, watercolor on paper, 29.5-by-42 inches, by Kathy Spalding. Tree Frog, watercolor on paper, 29.5-by-42 inches, by Kathy Spalding. Redfish, watercolor on paper, 29.5-by-42 inches, by Kathy Spalding.