A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the master’s program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nelson’s work is imbued with the colors, light, and mood of each physical environment she encounters. An eight-week-long residency at Elmore State Park in Elmore, Vermont yielded this collection of small and large scale paintings in oil and acrylic, sometimes painted plein air. Nelson’s representational paintings are illustrative, but not illustrations; rather they are connective expressions of a location’s significance to artist, viewer, and visitor.