A bright coastal scene with pale cliffs rising at the left and turquoise water opening across the center and right. The sky is simplified into large areas of cream, pale blue, and soft peach rather than small marks. With only a few dark rocks in the foreground, the composition stays spacious and clear. SERIES — DISTANT AIR DISTANT AIR is a ten-work series that treats distant seas, lakes, hills, cliffs, and mountains as layers of light and atmosphere. Rather than describing each landscape in detail, the works are built from broad color fields, scraped surfaces, impasto, and weathered block-like marks. From a distance, the images resolve into recognizable places; up close, color and material texture become the subject. Cream and pale blue form a recurring foundation, while coral, lavender, turquoise, ochre, and other accents shift from work to work, giving the series color without losing its quiet character. 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.