Landscape painter Curtis Hanson will be in the Christina Gallery in Edgartown on Thursday, July 15, for a reception from 6 until 8 p.m. alongside an exhibition of his recent oil paintings of New England and Thailand.

The Connecticut-based painter has pursued the relationship between art and nature through a career that has taken him from Fort Wright College in Washington, where he studied on fishing expeditions with Charles Palmer and Stan Taft, to New York city, where he would discover the moody tonalist landscapes of the Barbizon School painters and their great American inheritor, George Inness, to Boston, studying for three years in the atelier of Ives Gammell, who trained with William Paxton.

Mr. Hanson also paints the lotus ponds and fishing boats of rural Thailand. He spends part of the year there immersing himself in the Buddhist tradition of meditation; every brushstroke is made with what the Thais call “mindfulness.”

The show will hang until July 22 at the gallery on the corner of North Water and Winter streets in downtown Edgartown, For details, call 508-627-8794 or see online christina.com.