by Brian Mahieu | Oct 28, 2025 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Daylight, Featured, Olympic Coast Series, Pacific Northwest Paintings
This large painting evokes the sparkling sunlight of a late spring day at Cape Flattery. On this day it was low tide but just beginning to turn. Many rocks were revealed with a view into the crystalline water in the foreground revealing submerged boulders, seaweed...
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...
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...
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