These paintings are of rivers and lakes and the areas where they meet the land. Using a mixture of experience, photographs, memory, and imagination, these landscapes form out of the process of painting and drawing. Space, color, abstraction, and depth all work to allow the viewer to feel as if they are looking at these places for the first time, as if discovering the land for themselves—a moment of awareness during a meditative hike in the woods. – Benjamin Gardner 2020