SPRUCE HEAD — The Craignair Gallery invites the public to the Opening Reception of A Wider Lens by Thomaston artist Nancy Baker on Wednesday, May 1, from 4 to 7 p.m., with a live piano performance by Jim Vander Noot. 

Baker’s oil paintings offer viewers, in her own words, “a new way of looking at a subject. It is in the translation between direct observation and my internal, subjective experience of it where all the magic lies. I’m after the magic, the transcendence of reality. The artist succeeds in revealing a fresh perspective of the familiar world around us.”

Baker attended the Isabel O’Neill Studio for Painted Finishes in New York, and with those skills established a business of decorative painting for private clients and interior designers along the East Coast. She received instruction in plein air and figurative painting at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo, MD, at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Baker is a recipient of a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, all while studying individually in workshops with well-known artists whose work captivated her.

A Wider Lens is on exhibition from May 1 until May 28. 

The Craignair Gallery, located at 5 Third Street in Spruce Head, is open daily.

For more information, contact innkeeper@craignair.com or visit www.craignair.com/gallery.