Easton, Maryland by Diane May is on display Dec. 7- Jan. 2 in Gallery One in Belle Meade. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Diane Cruickshanks May and her husband of 26 years, Frank May, share more than a busy family life and a Nashville home.

They also share a passion for art, travel and a decades-long practice of scouring the country's most scenic sights to blend the two.

On Dec. 7, the husband and wife team will also share the spotlight as the featured artists at a new show opening at Belle Meade's Gallery One.

The gallery will present "He Saw, She Saw: A Travelogue in Paintings," a small works holiday show featuring the plein air landscape paintings created by the Mays during their many travels. A reception with the artists, which is free to the public, will be held at the gallery 6- 8 p.m. Dec. 7. The show runs through Jan. 2.

The exhibition of small works will take gallery goers on a "visual" road trip – from the Smoky Mountains to the rocky Eastern Shoreline to the wilderness of Wyoming and beyond. All works were painted on location.

Diane Cruickshanks May is a member of the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and is an associate member of Oil Painters of America. She is a founding member of The Chestnut Group, an organization of Tennessee-based artists celebrating and documenting endangered landscape in the region and focusing on alla prima plein air painting.

In 2007, she participated and exhibited at the Easton Plein Air Invitational in Easton, Md. Her work has been featured in national publications on still life painting, and it can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the United States.

Frank May, a native Nashvillian, is an oil painter of a traditional school. His work reflects attention to structure and detail in creating a unified whole. Having studied and practiced architecture, his artwork also reflects an understanding of how humans exist in space and, by extension, how the viewer exists in relationship to the world of his paintings.

He prefers the immediacy of painting from life, whether painting portraits, landscapes or still lifes. He is a student of painters David Leffel, Sherri McGraw and Scott Christensen, and is also a founding member of the Chestnut Group. He is also a member of the Portrait Society of America and an associate member of Oil Painters of America.

His work has been exhibited at the National Juried Exhibition of the Oil Painters of America at Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago; the Oil Painters of America's Regional Exhibition at Barnsite Studio Gallery in Green Bay, Wisc.; and the National Juried Exhibition at the Whistle Pik Galleries in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Gallery One, at 5133 Harding Pike in the Belle Meade Galleria, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday, and by appointment. For more information about the exhibition, call 352-3006 or visit the gallery Web site at www.galleryone.biz.