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 | Catalogue Raisonné, Daylight, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
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...
by Brian Mahieu | Nov 8, 2022 | Catalogue Raisonné, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
Backpacking between Lake Ozette and Shi Shi Beach on a beautiful summer morning, I looked back and saw a lone yellow puddle of light on the beach with this magnificent sky exploding over head. “That’s a painting!” I exclaimed. I love the sense of deep space in this...
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