by Brian Mahieu | Oct 18, 2026 | Available, Catalogue Raisonné, Collections, Featured, Olympic Coast Series, Preview
Hiking the Olympic Coast always provides inspiration, especially the otherworldly landscape of Point of the Arches/Shi Shi Beach. On this warm, late sumer morning we stood among the shadows of the sea stacks and looked out into the sunlight which illuminated the...
by Brian Mahieu | Aug 24, 2026 | Catalogue Raisonné, Featured, Garden Paintings, Nocturne, Pacific Northwest Paintings
I began creating twilight paintings while still in art school forty years ago. For three decades that was my focus. In the early 90s I created a body of work for a solo exhibit called Twilight Opalescence. These were paintings of paper lanterns, lit with candles,...
by Brian Mahieu | Oct 28, 2025 | 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...
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