Lambertville gallery-owner Roy Pedersen grew up by the sea in Point Pleasant Beach. A child of the shore, he had many adventures in his small boat, “looking for turtles and sea horses and fish among the channels and exploring through the marshes.” This childhood passion for the seashore stayed with him and led to his collecting and studying New Jersey impressionist paintings. His first exhibition on that theme was in 1997.

Now in a culmination of his passion, Pedersen has written Jersey Shore Impressionists: The Fascination of Sun and Sea…