Like many beginning artists, Janesah and Janeah Goheen didn’t consider their works extraordinary. But to their mother — as well as professional artist Margaret Livermore — their pieces exhibit talent and potential that is truly one of a kind.

Two years after the twin sisters’ deaths in an automobile accident in October 2013, their mother, Debbie Goheen, has created an exhibit of their artwork in memoriam.

The works will be on display at the Garry Oak Gallery in Oak Harbor throughout October.

From 5-7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, the gallery will host a reception for the Goheens.

The girls were students at Oak Harbor High School and Home Connections, and had elected to take an art course. With little prior experience, the girls’ ability to create pieces with such great detail was laudable, Debbie Goheen said.

The girls, who were humble, largely disagreed. In order to better cultivate the natural talent she observed, Debbie Goheen had planned to enroll them in more lessons.

Prior to delving into the visual arts, the girls also exhibited musical talent. They both sang in choirs and at events throughout the community, and always kept perfect harmony when singing together.

Their gift of song was one of many the 17-year-olds bestowed upon the Oak Harbor community.

“It’s almost like a hug and kiss to the community because they did touch a lot of people’s lives,” Debbie Goheen said of the exhibit, entitled “One of a Kind.”

Two of the pieces Debbie Goheen said she finds the most impressive are of a bear and a tiger, both depicted with lifelike detail. Another piece, of a horse with a flowing mane, Janesah had drawn in memorial to their older sister, Jessica, who died in an auto accident in 2008.

Jessica loved horses and had been involved in 4-H as an equestrian, Debbie Goheen said. She had also worked at a therapeutic riding facility and had helped others in equine training.

“They both loved animals,” said Goheen of Janeah and Janesah. “They both loved life, period.”

“I look at their artwork and think, ‘by golly they just are beginners,’ ” said Livermore, adding that she imagines if they’d had a few more years’ experience they could have excelled.

Janesah, who was a bit more inclined towards the visual arts compared to her sister, also did several additional sketches which Debbie Goheen said she plans to mat and frame, or possibly make into postcards to be sold at local businesses.

“To keep their legacy alive in different ways, it’s kind of fun for our family to have that,” Debbie Goheen said.

She added that it’s also beneficial to the numerous community members who knew the twins, many of whom have conveyed to her the ways in which the girls impacted their lives.

The original pieces are not for sale, though print reproductions will be available for purchase.

Proceeds will go to the Goheen Memorial Fund and a music scholarship at Oak Harbor High School.

“They were beautiful young women, but they were very humble,” said Debbie Goheen. “Their love and kindness was demonstrated in all different ways. I think that’s what people can see in this artwork, their sweet personalities.”