Robin Gowen is the gallery's longest represented artist.

Continually adventuring out into nature, Robin never fails to offer up something new and different in the genre of landscape painting. She sharpens her gaze to record the intricate branches of a wintery sycamore, crisp and sharp as after a cleansing rainstorm, only to back away from the scene and reduce hillside sunlight to flat planes of candy pink that drip down into chocolatey canyons. You never know what is going to emerge from the hand of this multifaceted painter. Her main focus is the land as it changes with the light, in every season, with every shift of the weather.

It is rare to catch a glimpse of the ocean in one of her paintings, which is unusual for a plein air painter in a seaside town. Robin keeps her eyes on the hills and valleys, faithfully recreating the botanicals, ridge lines, and canyons that reveal a sense of timeless place, yet one that is that is continually changing from the effects of mother nature.

Gowen was raised in New Hampshire and Nigeria. She now travels regularly throughout the western United States. For this artist the landscape of the west provides "a splendid opportunity for new paintings, infused with an equally brilliant, but different, light" than that of Nigeria.

"Everything changes while you paint. Living things move. The light alters, hours pass, and by the time you rinse the brushes the image you sought is gone. Artists were, and are the premier magicians of time and place. We try to stop the hours, growth and change, age and the death of what we love…We do not only catch the physical presence, but the moment snatched within the shadows of its emotion made visible." - Robin Gowen