Filing away calm moments

“Dusk III (detail)” (encaustic, oil and 23-karat gold leaf on panel), by Dietlind Vander Schaaf, in her show “We Are Poems,’’ at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Nov. 3-28. The gallery says that her paintings evoke brief moments of balance and stillness.

She lives in Portland, Maine.

Moulton Street in Portland’s Old Port section. The city is a major arts center.

— Photo by Bd2media