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“Blue Day, View Over Islesboro to East Bay, From Bluff Road, Northport, Maine” By Sarah Faragher.

Landing Gallery in Rockland presents a new solo exhibition by painter Sarah Faragher titled “The Big Picture,” on view from June 6 to 29. The show features 53 paintings created throughout 2024 and opened with a reception from 4 to 8 p.m. June 6 during Rockland’s First Friday Art Walk.

Faragher, who lives and works on the coast of Maine, painted wide open views from high vantage points around Penobscot Bay over the past year. The pieces reflect a shifting lens — how familiar places can be seen anew when viewed from above or approached from different angles. She found herself reimagining islands and landforms she thought she knew well, allowing her to see farther and feel a sense of new openness and even freedom within the boundaries of the bay. The works were especially inspired by perspectives from overlooks at Caterpillar Hill in Sedgwick and Upper Bluff Road in Northport, where the expansive views of islands and saltwater feel timeless and eternal.

She notes that the work is a tribute to one of her favorite painters, David Hockney and the documentary “A Bigger Picture,” which focuses on Hockney and his home places. Watching it helped her consider her own surroundings with renewed intimacy and clarity.

This exhibit is also deeply personal, dedicated to her late husband Ryan King, who loved the bay and supported her work wholeheartedly. Faragher says the paintings show her that she’s doing okay and gaining a new kind of perspective in this next chapter of life.

Raised on the Maine coast, Faragher studied art history and painting at Colby College and the University of Maine. She has participated in artist residencies at Weir Farm National Historic Park, Acadia National Park, Monson Arts and Great Spruce Head Island. Her work was included in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial and is featured in publications including “Art of Acadia” and “Art of Penobscot Bay.” In 2021, she published a memoir titled “Autobiography of an Island,” reflecting on her experience painting on Bear Island in Penobscot Bay.

Landing Gallery is at 409 Main St. in Rockland. The gallery is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment, and is closed Sunday through Tuesday. For more information, call 207-239-1223, or email landinggallery@gmail.com. Follow the gallery on Facebook at Facebook.com/LandingGallery.