Martha Hoppin reviews the recent exhibition Seven On Site at Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA, featuring paintings by Martha Armstrong, Sasha Chermayeff, Jane Culp, Judy Koon, Ro Lohin, Lynette Lombard, and Megan Williamson.

Hoppin writes that the "unconventional works emphasize expressive form and brushwork over changes in light effects, weather, and time of day, the more traditional concerns of plein air painting. These seven artists may paint some or most or all of a landscape outdoors, but none produces a direct transcription of nature. While grounded in reality, each interprets distinctively."