Then they take over

Painting by Joan Baldwin in her show “Hallucinations’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, June 5-30.

The gallery says:

“While wandering in Cape Cod, Joan Baldwin is always on the lookout for a fresh approach to her environment, observing the plants and animals along the saltwater shores. The images that attract her attention become a springboard for the ideas in her paintings. In order to express her fantasies, she personifies what she sees, often putting herself into the role of the painting’s main subject. Later, when she’s working in her studio, she allows herself to go beyond the reality of what she visually observed, the branches, grasses, insects and animals, and lets the happenings in these compositions take on a life of their own.’’