Speed—safely—to the art show at the San Geronimo Community Center, where Connie Smith Siegel’s talent as a landscape artist is on view in the Maurice del Mue Galleries. Smith Siegel sees with some extra vision that seems to create a holographic chamber in front of her paintings. 

Some art is great, but some, like Smith Siegel’s, is sublime. The 18th-century critic Edmund Burke put sublime on the aesthetics map with this: “The passion caused by…