“This is like reading a bestseller,” Nancy Hua of Fort Fort said as she stood in the Circle Centre for the Arts’ second-floor gallery and admired the work of landscape painter William Chickillo.

You might not be enraptured by the first few pages in a book that you end up loving, Hua said. But as you turn more and more pages, you “find yourself thinking ‘Oh, Jesus, I can’t put it down.’”

Similarly, Hua said, Chickillo’s paintings looked better and better to her the further away she stood. “You have to stand afar to see the absolutely breathtaking beauty,” she said.

“It has the essence and the feeling of the great outdoors,” Diane Czajkowski of Ashley said of Chickillo’s work.

“I’m enjoying the textures and the atmosphere. There’s so much layering,” said Michelle Thomas of Tunkhannock.

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