Loon Point

The cliffs of Loon Point blaze orange in the last direct light of day in this 9 x 12 oil painting by Nancy Davidson, their color intensified against a hazy mountain range fading to lavender behind. Davidson keeps the palette here almost sculptural — warm rock against cool sea and sky — with a still shoreline stretching out to meet gentle surf. At this smaller, more intimate scale, the painting reads like a moment captured on an evening walk, the kind of light that makes you stop mid-stride and just look.