by Brian Mahieu | Aug 17, 2023 | Catalogue Raisonné, Nocturne, Olympic Coast Series
Wading among the seastacks at Point of the Arches as the sunset burns in the western sky is a transcendent experience. As darkness envelops the foreground, the rock formations become soft and velvety and it seems huge slabs of malachite and lapis are rising from the...
by Brian Mahieu | May 13, 2023 | Catalogue Raisonné, Nocturne, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
Shi Shi Beach is an otherworldly place in the daylight. But in those liminal moments at first light, and nightfall it is utterely transcendent. On this particular night there was a full, flower moon rising in the east and this unbelievably bright object in the sky to...
by Brian Mahieu | May 3, 2023 | Catalogue Raisonné, Nocturne, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
Another magical evening north of the Ozette River, when the sunset transforms the cool Pacific Northwest ocean and beach with tropical colors and warm light. I love the deep space in this little painting and the magnetic pull of the sky into the sunset. Close-ups...
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...
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