‘Fragility and strength’

“Striped Beach with Boy”(lumiere paints on cotton, quilted), by West Hartford, Conn.-based artist and retired lawyer Diane Cadrain, in her show “The Ripple Effect: Images of Cape Cod,’’ at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, through Dec. 29.

“I attempt to create images that combine fragility with strength and the evanescent with the eternal. The sand ripples on the beaches of Cape Cod are perfect subjects for me because they are always changing, but always the same, and despite the visual strength of their patterns, they can be washed away with the next tide.”