by Brian Mahieu | Feb 21, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Oil and Cold Wax, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Twilight
I really love this little painting for it’s unique palette of color, impasto and abstraction. A distant thunderstorm over the Strait of Juan de Fuca, looking toward Vancouver Island.
by Brian Mahieu | Feb 21, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Oil and Cold Wax, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Twilight
I am enjoying the challenge of painting a landscape viewed through a screen of trees. The push/pull between near and far is satisfying and fits well with how I work—from dark to light and far to near, then back and forth. On this August evening a molten sunset...
by Brian Mahieu | Feb 17, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Nocturne, Pacific Northwest Paintings
A molten August Sunset transfigured this Whidbey Island landscape into a fiery tropical scene. This is a powerful and exciting painting with muscular paint quality created using brushes and palette knives.
by Brian Mahieu | Dec 9, 2023 | Catalogue Raisonné, Oil and Cold Wax, Pacific Northwest Paintings, Twilight
“Here on Whidbey Island we have been having some beautiful and unusual colors at daybreak. On this morning the entire scene was bathed in a rosy lavender glow as a fogbank/marine layer was lifting off the bluffs in the distance.” Close-ups Showing Detail and...
by Brian Mahieu | Nov 8, 2023 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
“I am thrilled with this scene of a gorgeous August morning at Shi Shi Beach, I took great delight in the ebullient, Impressionist palette. A heavy fog was lifting from the ocean and sea stacks revealing the pastel colors of sunrise overhead, and reflecting in the...
by Brian Mahieu | Oct 9, 2023 | Catalogue Raisonné, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
“On this gorgeous late summer morning a heavy fog was lifting from the ocean and sea stacks revealing the pastel colors of sunrise overhead. Within a short time a heavy marine layer descended and the sky was solid grey.” Close-ups Showing Detail and...
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