A semi-abstract landscape depicting a low horizon, a small dark island, and the shallow water and tidal flats that spread around it. The upper portion is composed of broad fields of cream and pale blue, while the lower area layers teal, ochre, and white in a more freely broken manner. By keeping the island understated, the composition gives center stage to the wide expanses of sky and ground. A semi-abstract tidal landscape with a low horizon, a small dark island, and shallow water stretching across the middle. Broad cream and pale blue areas dominate the sky, while teal, ochre, and white break apart more freely in the lower field. The reduced island keeps attention on space, color, and the flat rhythm of the shore. 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 — assembling a sense of faraway places. From a distance the images resolve into landscape; up close, an abstract interplay of color and texture comes forward. Grounded in cream and pale blue, the series shifts its accents — coral, lavender, turquoise, ochre — from work to work, leaving a quiet but lasting impression of color throughout. 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, negative space (ma), 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 valued as highly as expression — she aims for a picture plane that can be felt as both landscape and abstraction depending on how close the viewer stands. 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.