by Brian Mahieu | Apr 12, 2025 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Oil and Cold Wax, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
A scintillating day hiking the high meadows on the North Shore of Lake Quinault revealed this scene. I love the oil and cold wax medium for its matte paint surface and impasto. This painting was created on an orange imprimatura, revealed with sgraffito to indicate...
by Brian Mahieu | Apr 12, 2025 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Uncategorized
“I’m excited to share the first larger oil painting from my hike to Lake Quinault in February. It was a delight to discover the last snowfall of the year as Lars and I hiked high meadows on the North Shore. On this day the sunlight and shadows on the snow were...
by Brian Mahieu | Jan 24, 2025 | Catalogue Raisonné, Oil and Cold Wax, Pacific Northwest Paintings
A recent hike at Lake Cushman revealed this grove of poplars in their iridescent glory against the morning sky and the Olympic Mountains. This scintillating little painting will searve as a color study for a number of larger works.
by Brian Mahieu | Jan 24, 2025 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Twilight
I’m thrilled with this painting of the Skagit Valley. I painted the Missouri River Valley for the first thirty years of my career, and this broad floodplain with rows of alders and poplars resonates with me on a deep, symbolic level. In those river bottoms I could...
by Brian Mahieu | Oct 10, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Daylight, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
“In this painting of soaring alders in a meadow north of Lake Quinault I continue to delight in the Impressionist use of color and light I explored so heavily early in my career. This particular meadow brings me back to the lines of cottonwoods in the Missouri River...
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