Robena Malicoat lives and works in Provincetown. She is continually drawn to what we tend to visually take for granted. Although this most often results in paintings of studio interiors and still lives, it is not unheard of for something outside to catch her eye.

Recently she has made a series of oil paintings of Provincetown fishing boats. The boat paintings, oil on canvas mounted on panel and similar in size to her interiors, depict a personal and intimate view of the fishing boats while capturing the expanse of ocean and sky they work in. These are generous, articulate paintings - traditional in their formal definitions and contemporary in their execution. Light, the color blue, and the right amount of paint make this new series exhilarating to see. The subject of something passing, a fishing fleet, a diminished vocation, a picture of balance and weather, makes them paintings of memory and desire.