From the Renaissance through Impressionism and abstraction, artists have interpreted the landscape. In contemporary painting, the landscape may remain recognizable—or become only the point of departure. LANDINGS 3 VISIONS brings together three accomplished New England artists whose paintings explore the territory between observation and interpretation. Land, sea, forests, rocks, harbors, boats, and the built environment provide subjects, but the artists’ individual ways of seeing—and painting—transform them.

Tom Glover has spent much of his adult life painting along the New Hampshire and Maine seacoast. Harbors, estuaries, docks, rocks, boats, water, and changing coastal light are the vocabulary he knows intimately. Vanessa Michalak, a Maine native and Gloucester-based artist, approaches the visible world with exuberant color and expressive mark-making. Jan Roy pushes the transformation of place still further. Beginning her artistic career as a silk-screen artist before turning primarily to oil painting, Roy brings a strong sense of graphic structure to landscapes, harbors, architecture, and other observed environments.