The land between Seattle and the Salish Sea has been the subject of serious painting for a century. These artists know this light — the low winter sun, the cedar canopy, the blue hour on the water. None of them are making postcards.

Carole Wade paints horses at a scale that stops a room. Barbara Duzan builds animals from clay and pressed beads, each surface a dense accumulation of mark. Raenell Doyle's cats are not decorative. These are works about the body — animal, human, formal.

Marketa Sivek builds surfaces that hold light at dusk. Tamera Abaté applies beeswax in thirty layers with a propane torch. Gary Groves pulls woodcuts from blocks he has worked for decades. Andy McConnell finds the argument inside old-growth cedar. These are works where the material is the subject.