A coastal scene where morning light gathers near the horizon beneath a pale blue and cream sky. Broad areas of color and weathered brushwork shape the beach, waves, and distant headland, while small touches of orange and navy add quiet contrast. The open composition gives the work a clear sense of a new day beginning. SERIES — QUIET PLACES QUIET PLACES is a ten-work series that connects different settings—sea, bay, hills, forest, islands, and sunset—through a shared sense of stillness. From a distance, each work reads as a landscape; up close, impasto, scraped surfaces, block-like color fields, and weathered marks become visible. The series avoids over-description, leaving room for light and air while keeping the color and character of each place distinct. ABOUT RITSUKO NISHIMURA Ritsuko Nishimura creates semi-abstract works centered on light, air, stillness, open space, and material texture. Rather than reproducing a landscape literally, she builds a sense of place through fields of color, brushwork, scraped surfaces, and layered marks. Restraint is as important as addition, allowing each work to shift between recognizable landscape and abstraction depending on viewing distance.