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Joanna Logue, “Dragonfly Pond.”

Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland is showing “5AM in the Pinewoods,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Joanna Logue, through May 9.

Logue, a native of Australia who has lived on Mount Desert Island since 2017, takes inspiration from daily hikes in Acadia National Park near her home in Somesville. The changing colors of the seasons, the dense tangle of the deep woods and reflections on boggy ponds inform her images, which balance on the knife edge between abstraction and representation. “My paintings need to be tough and innovative but soft and seductive at the same time,” she said. Using various painting tools to animate each area of the composition, she extends her images beyond their edges — a reminder that we are seeing just a piece of the much larger whole.

Logue graduated from the City Art Institute in Sydney with a BA in visual arts and a graduate diploma in painting. She has had 22 solo exhibitions and has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally, with work held in significant corporate, private and public collections. She works from studios on Mount Desert Island and at Essington Park, Australia.

Dowling Walsh Gallery is at 357 Main St. in Rockland. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and by appointment on Sundays and Mondays. Visit www.dowlingwalsh.com or call 207-596-0084 for more information.