A pale sunrise slowly dissolves the boundary between sea and sky. Coral and peach light, low island silhouettes, and quiet water are reduced to broad fields of color and weathered brushwork, leaving space for the atmosphere of morning to breathe. SERIES — OPEN COUNTRY OPEN COUNTRY is a ten-piece series moving through coastlines, valleys, cliffs, forests, fields, dusk, and night. Each work explores the quietness that remains inside an open landscape. From a distance the images read as places; up close they dissolve into blocks of color, scraped surfaces, and layered paint. By resisting excessive detail and preserving room for light and air, the series focuses less on a specific location than on the sensation of standing within a wide landscape. ABOUT RITSUKO NISHIMURA Ritsuko Nishimura creates works centered on light, air, and silence, using negative space and tactile surfaces as essential parts of the image. Moving between landscape and abstraction, she avoids over-description and instead builds atmosphere through fields of color, brushwork, and layered texture. Her guiding theme is Light. Air. Silence.