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...
by Brian Mahieu | Oct 10, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Garden Paintings, Oil and Cold Wax
This painting captures the midsummer garden in it’s iridescent glory. California poppies, Oriental poppies, corn poppies and pale lavender poppies from Monet’s garden* mingle with lavender, Dianthus, Platycodon, and molten Asiatic lilies.*grown from seed collected...
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