Artwork by Justyna Kostkowska

Local artists Carol Berning, Justyna Kostkowska and Pam Mack will be featured in the City Hall Rotunda through Feb. 25 in an exhibit titled “The Nurture of Nature: restoration from the outside in.”

A virtual tour is scheduled online on Feb. 12 for anyone who can’t visit in person.

The collaborative exhibit extols the healing qualities of art and nature in the human experience. Three local artists who share a love of creation and a desire to reinterpret its beauty will display their latest works.

The exhibit is free and open to the community weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“There is unspeakable beauty and potential to be found in nature,” naturalist painter Jil Ashton-Leigh said. “It entices me and is an invitation I just have to accept.”

The Murfreesboro community is invited to slow down and enjoy a refreshing and restorative experience of sight and sound as the exhibit invites in the outdoors with art on the walls and an accompanying ambient nature soundtrack produced by Aaron Browning.

Carol Berning enjoys painting images of people and things that are important to her, whether a still life of eggs or rusty heaps, portraits of family and friends, or landscapes of lush fields or dark alleyways.

Justyna Kostkowska is a professor of english at Middle Tennessee State University. She is a native of Poland but has lived in Murfreesboro for the last 25 years. She works in oils, watercolors and, her greatest passion, pastels.

Pamela Mack has painted in plein air, portraits, landscapes and still life. She is always intrigued by portraiture and what makes a portrait work. The experience of ongoing learning and problem-solving makes painting very exciting to her.

For more information about the “The Nurture of Nature: restoration from the outside in,” contact Lisa Browning, Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation program coordinator, at 615-893-2141 or visit facebook.com/culturalartsmurfreesboro.

Murfreesboro City Hall is located at 111 W. Vine St.