‘Like a hummable melody’

“Sky on Fire,’’ by Sue Charles, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.

Ms. Charles is based in Amesbury, Mass., on the Merrimack River. Her artist bio says:

“The northeast coast of the Atlantic is my subject…. Paintings exist in many dimensions;They depict three dimensions of light and space with two dimensions of color, they express the fourth dimension of time in their marks and they reveal metaphysical dimensions of thought and emotion. Finding the intersection between these ways of perceiving is my goal. I work to express the long lines of landscape space, light and air connecting everything and the quiet profundity of nature. A good painting contains only the essentials and it stays with you like a hummable melody. I aim for that. www.suecharlesstudio.com.’’

View northeast from Powwow Hill, in Amesbury