Garden Paintings | Brian Mahieu

Torch Lilies and Bougainvillea—Nightfall

by Brian Mahieu | Aug 24, 2026 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Garden Paintings, Nocturne, Pacific Northwest Paintings

I began creating twilight paintings while still in art school forty years ago. For three decades that was my focus. In the early 90s I created a body of work for a solo exhibit called Twilight Opalescence. These were paintings of paper lanterns, lit with candles,...

Island Garden—Tithonia and Cleome

by Brian Mahieu | Aug 24, 2026 | Catalogue Raisonné, Garden Paintings, Pacific Northwest Paintings

I have been making ornamental gardens since the mid 1980s after seeing Monet’s garden at Giverny. That was a life-altering experience on many levels—opening my eyes to what ornamental horticulture could be. Over the years I have painted many floral landscapes of my...

RoozenGaarde—April Morning

by Brian Mahieu | May 16, 2025 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Garden Paintings

A scintillating morning at RoozenGaarde in the Skagit Valley of Washington was the source for this prismatic image. I began the painting with a chartreuse imprimatura which was the electric color I felt in the air. These ancient apple trees were part of the original...

Poppies and Asiatic Lilies—Midsummer

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...