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Both artists look to their surroundings for inspiration, focusing on the same subject matter for months or even years at a time. In Harding’s case, this is the coastal landscape that wraps around her and for Reiner it is the growth of trees within urban environments. Through these acts of sustained observation both artists have absorbed the ways in which external factors such as the weather, seasons, time and human intervention affect their subject matter, developing an understanding and connection that goes far beyond the visual. This level of intimacy is evident in their paintings, which …