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
![Waxing Crescent Moon—Morning](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/crescentMoon_main-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
12”h X 12”w X 1”d
![Thundersnow Morning—Moonset](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ThundersnowMorning_main-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Moonrise—Saratoga Passage](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MoonriseSaratogaPassage_1000-400x284.jpg)
oil on canvas
20”h x 30”w x 1.75”d
![Foggy Moonset—Harbor Lights](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FoggyMoonsetHarborLights__main-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
9”h X 12”w X 1”d
![Foggy Moonset—Predawn](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FoggyMoonsetPredawnpsd-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
9”h X 12”w X 1”d
![Dewy Spring Morning—Moonset](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DewySummerMorning-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Dewy Spring Morning—Pink Moon](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PinkMoonWeb-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Lavender Moonset—Spring Morning](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SummerMoonsetFinal_mainE-400x284.jpg)
oil on canvas
36”h x 36”w x 1.5”d
![Stormy Sunset—Strait of Juan de Fuca](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/StormyWeatherMain_E-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Sunset Thunderstorm—Molten Skies](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MoltenSkies02-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Stormy Sunset—Spring Is Coming](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SpringIsInComing-1-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
10”h X 10”w X 1”d
![Molten Sunset—Harbor View](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MoltenSunsetHarborView-400x284.jpg)
Oil with cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on cradled birch panel
11”h X 14”w X 1”d
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.
![](https://brianmahieu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Brian-Mahieu-Painting-at-Ebeys-Landing.jpg)