Landscape painting, as a genre, may be viewed as adhering to an aesthetic that evokes an earlier era, yet for those with the ability to approach the subject from unexpected angles, with fresh eyes, it remains current. Landscape painting, as a genre, may be viewed as adhering to an aesthetic that evokes an earlier era, yet for those with the ability to approach the subject from unexpected angles, with fresh eyes, it remains current. With its meditative aspect, “Sky, Land & Water” takes Pierce's work in a more reductive direction, continuing to present distillations of the landscape, with their a dramatic range of moods and temperatures, a rich variety of emotionally and visually evocative images offering a window on her carefully observed world. - from the essay by Barbara Morris