Pacific Northwest Paintings
The practice of painting in series has been a hallmark of Brian Mahieu’s work from the beginning. He likes to return to the same spot over days, seasons and years to understand its essence and changeability.
Whidbey Island
Ebey’s Landing was the natural choice for his first series of paintings on Whidbey Island. The unspoiled landscape, lack of human structures, deep vistas, and gentle collision of land and sea and sky offer endless motifs for painting the ever-changing light and weather conditions.
Recent Northwest Paintings

Plein air oil on linen
30 X 30 inches

Plein air oil on linen
30 X 30 inches

Plein air oil on linen
12 X 16 inches

Plein air oil on linen
11 X 14 inches

plein air oil on linen
30 X 30 inches

Plein air oil, cold wax medium on canvas
14 x 11 inches

plein air oil, cold wax medium and snow on linen
30 X 30 inches

Plein air oil on canvas
18 X 18 inches

Plein air oil and oil pastels on Arches oil paper mounted on wooden panel
22.5 X 22.5 inches

Plein air oil on Arches oil paper
12 X 9 inches

plein air oil on linen
20 X 20 inches

plein air oil on linen
30 X 30 inches
It is a thrill to paint the iridescent sunsets as otters trundle across the beach and eagles hunt on the warm updrafts, the calls of seagulls in my ears and the scent of firs and spruce and kelp on the wind. Those are inputs that I cannot get in the sterile, environment of a studio.
