Opens Saturday, June 28, 4-7 PM
Event Details:
Exhibition Title: The Immediate Landscape
Location: Carol L. Douglas Studio/Richards Hill Gallery, 394 Commercial Street, Rockport, ME, 04856
Dates: June 28-July 10, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28, 4-7 PM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5 PM
We spend, on average, 1-2 seconds per image looking at pictures on Instagram. That leaves us more distracted and distractable than ever. And yet, the cure for that is all around us. The Immediate Landscape: a close observation of everyday beauty explores this theme through landscape painting.
“We’re hardwired to find nature beautiful,” said artist Carol L. Douglas, whose paintings will be on display at Richards Hill Gallery, 394 Commercial Street, Rockland, from June 28 to July 10. “Lush greenery is lively. Open vistas suggest safety and brilliant colors represent vitality.” Nature also contains patterns that appeal to our sense of harmony and balance.
“There’s a calming response to nature that’s been shown in many studies,” added Douglas. Nature reduces stress and elevates mood. We associate it with peace. Over time, we’ve also overlaid nature with personal and cultural symbolic meaning.
“So many of us spend our days in in offices or our computers. Natural landscapes offer what Instagram cannot, including irregular, everchanging forms instead of gridded structures, shifting, filtered light instead of artificial light, and and timelessness instead of deadlines. That heightens our perception of beauty in nature,” said Douglas.
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