Joanna Logue paints beautiful, complex, color-saturated paintings of the Maine landscape. She moved to the state from her native Australia in 2017, settling in a small village on Mt. Desert. In this relatively short time, she has come to know the island landscape intimately through her extensive hikes into the hidden corners of its woods, marshes, and mountains. Her views are not the spectacular vistas of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, whose transcendental paintings of nature helped popularize the island as a place of tourism in the mid-19th century. Instead, Logue paints from within the landscape—the dense tangle of the deep woods, reflections on a boggy pond, and the changing colors of the seasons. Like John Marin and John Walker, two artists she admires, her paintings balance on the knife edge between abstraction and representation. Nature is presented close-up, encompassing, challenging. She says, "My paintings need to be tough and innovative but soft and seductive at the same time." She uses various painting tools to animate each area of the composition, extending the image beyond its edges—a reminder that we are seeing just a piece of the much larger whole.