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, 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...
by Brian Mahieu | Sep 9, 2024 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Oil and Cold Wax, Pacific Northwest Paintings
I’m thrilled with this painting and what will come from it. This past April we hiked in a gorgeous meadow on the north shore of Lake Quinault. The trees were burgeoning with spring green foliage Illuminated with the evening light. For thirty years, I painted in the...
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 | Sep 24, 2023 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
This painting is gorgeous and delicate. The luscious palette is one of muted lilac, periwinkle and coral pinks with soft lavender-hued earthtones and hints of turquoise throughout. It captures a brilliant sunrise that blossomed over the Point of the Arches on August...
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...
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