“CORTLAND APPLES ON GREEN GLASS PLATE”: This work by Tracy Everly is part of “Light Touch,” her joint exhibition with Carol Pelletier, on view through November 19 at Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell.

Morpeth Contemporary presents “Light Touch” through November 19. The exhibition features recent paintings by Tracy Everly and Carole Pelletier, two artists inspired to capture fleeting visions.

A “meet the artists” reception is on Saturday, November 11 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Everly’s paintings — including Pennsylvania landscapes, building facades, and still lifes of flowers and fruit — are born of deep observation but rendered in an impressionist manner. As she said, “I don’t aim to capture one static moment or every detail. Instead, I observe, paint, and distill different moments into a simplified form that is ultimately meant to capture the remains or accumulation of an experience as it slips away.”

Like the New Hope, Pa., impressionists that inspired her, each piece begins by finding something that captures her and brings a feeling of excitement. Though a plein air painter by nature, she sometimes uses drawings and photos; even still, her work is about the art of paying attention.

“What I enjoy most about making art is that it invites me to pay attention to the world around me deeply and personally,” said Everly. “Painting requires deep focus and being in the moment, which I find enjoyable.”

Everly, who left a corporate job as an editor to focus on her own art, is largely self-taught. In addition to Morpeth, she has shown at the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vt., and was included in a group show of contemporary landscape paintings at the Figure Ground Gallery in Seattle. She received an Award of Distinction from the American Impressionist Society and two Bucks County Resident Artist Awards from the Bucks County Plein Air Festival, among others. She lives and works in Bucks County, Pa.

Pelletier draws inspiration from a specific moment: twilight. As she describes it, twilight “is a time of reflection and transition; it is where the light greets the darkness, with a short pause. Color becomes intensified, and the structure of the sky and ground are in flux, creating visual and emotional depth. Twilight holds in it a feeling of two worlds — a beginning and an end.”

Pelletier has a daily ritual of visiting and revisiting environments that are open and hold reflective light on Cape Ann (on the north shore of Boston) and coastal Maine. She said, “This practice helps to imbed emotional space within a place I love. These places hold memories and emotions within the light and structure of the land, every time I visit.”

To capture the color and light, her primary medium is oil paint mixed with a cold wax that she makes by bleaching the beeswax given to her by a local beekeeper and suspending it in refined linseed oil. The cold wax medium holds the light and when mixed with oil paint provides a distinct luminosity that helps capture this time of day.

“We live in a world in which we have perceived the fleeting comings and goings of the days, weeks, months, and years,” Pelletier said. “We also have had moments that are frozen, and our recall of those moments help to magically recycle our relationship to time and space.”

Pelletier currently lives and works on the North Shore of Boston and a small island in mid coast, Maine. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. She has earned support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she is a Salzburg Global Fellow.

Morpeth Contemporary is at 43 West Broad Street in Hopewell. For more information, call (609) 333-9393 or visit morpethcontemporary.com.