by Brian Mahieu | May 2, 2023 | Nocturne, Pacific Northwest Paintings
On the Olympic Coast beaches there are beautiful bands of mica flakes that have eroded out of the metamorphic rocks and form glittering patterns on the beaches. On this night, north of the Ozette River, those bands drew my eye up to the confluence of the river and the...
by Brian Mahieu | Apr 20, 2023 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Featured, Olympic Coast Series
It is significant to me that the first painting and the twelfth in my Olympic Coast Series is of this view. This painting is my memory of the first time I scaled a one hundred foot bluff on a heavy rope “ladder” (which is really just a single knotted rope.) At this...
by Brian Mahieu | Apr 15, 2023 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Daylight, Olympic Coast Series
A rainy season hike in the Hoh Rainforest is the ideal time to see the myriad shades of chlorophyll glow in the late winter sun. This day was a bit breezy with light drizzle, the colors were magnificent. Within the forest it was still with the sound of the breeze in...
by Brian Mahieu | Mar 15, 2023 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Daylight, Olympic Coast Series
In the Quinault Rainforest is an otherworldly spot called Maple Glade. During the winter and spring a crystalline stream runs through it, which is carpeted with impossibly green marsh marigold plants. The forest is primordial and deep—softly crackling with the...
by Brian Mahieu | Dec 4, 2022 | Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Twilight
“One August morning while hiking south from the Point of the Arches, among the shadows of these ancient, metamorphic pillars we rounded a corner and this amazing scene unfolded. Immersed in this otherworldly landscape, I was suddenly looking out of the out of the...
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