by Brian Mahieu | Jul 2, 2025 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Daylight, Pacific Northwest Paintings
Recently I spent a brilliantly sunny day on the bluff overlooking Ebey’s Landing with an artist friend capturing the light and colors in paint. This is my favorite spot on Whidbey Island with the ancient, windswept Sitka Spruce anchoring the bluff over Admiralty Inlet...
by Brian Mahieu | Apr 12, 2025 | 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 | 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...
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