John, we are amateur photographers. The majority of our shots are not work of art but when we have the opportunity of turning a subject into a work of art we have to pay attention. I will be the first one to tell you that while traveling that is not always possible.
Since you are using Olympus cameras I would recommend that you do a search in Utube for Derek Forss. Mr. Forss is a British photographer that serves as an Olympus visionary and mentor but in addition he is a great educator.
He has a series of videos using Olympus cameras and lenses and some of them are excellent to learn exposure. It has been mentioned here that a RAW file would have given you better results but I tell you that regardless of the type of file once the highlights are clipped there is no way to recover them satisfactorily. To repeat myself again, ALWAYS meter from an important highlight and in my case I usually do that using spot metering.
Once you make a correction in the camera to the exposure suggested by the meter other tonalities will fall within the dynamic range of the sensor and will be properly exposed.
I hope this helps.