A grainy, foggy image of a tree, which has half-fallen into a river.

Enacting Arcadia

Once, not so very long ago, photographs were indicators of veracity.

The fingers, roots of a tree stump stretch into warm green grass like veins of a river, the sky shades of pink and peach and cream, beyond, a lush treeline just below.

Love Letters

FROM THE ARCHIVES | Love Letter to Patricia Hagen

by Lisa Jaffe
Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

A Port Townsend-based painter ponders the simultaneity of life and death in her portraits of stumps.

Hanging on a white wall, wide, decisive, and airy brushstrokes remember a huddle of trees beyond a dirt road and beneath a misty, yawning sky.

Stephen Hayes – Re:place

The sheer beauty of the imagery is immediately seductive while the title Re:place invites further contemplation on broader themes of renewal, reckoning or reconsiderations of our place within these bucolic settings.

In this lightly geometric landscape, the bare trunks of trees stand sparse against a cream-grey sky, beyond a sharp-edged pile of boulders that dominate the foreground.

Mya Kerner: These Whispers, These Tellings

The exhibit suggests a way forward from grief and loss through the literal paths she paints, into the whispering, resilient landscapes that surround us.

A muted starscape materializes as if just behind a cloud, with a handful of individual stars glowing yellow and red and orange, and clusters of stars sinking into the deep, purple void of the background.

Peter Halasz: Heartsong

Free from narrative, this painting is more closely resonant with a sonic arrangement or reverberation which exists in a space of nocturnal ambiguity.

A mash of sinew, color, texture, and form makes up this sculpture which draws in the eye just as it expels familiarity.

Polly Frizzell: The Last Tree

The Last Tree proposes that humans should consider what the loss of trees means for our own future.

painting features multiple faces in the foreground, most of their eyes closed and features blurred, as well as a woman in a white dress standing in the center of the frame, resting her hand on what seems to be a chair. The shape of a heart enwraps much of the background of the work.

Shelley Turley: Sound of Silence

Shelley Turley creates dreamlike, mysterious paintings that explore themes of displacement, longing, mourning, and spiritual reflection. Through Turley’s energetic and intuitively painted gestures, intimate or odd scenes emerge.

An abstract landscape painting with thick brushstrokes describing overlapping, rolling hills. The artist used ochre, pale pink, moss green, Kelly green, taupe, and vermillion for the different hills, with geometric highlights in white and pale yellow. Light blue hovers over the horizon, fading upward into pale yellow.

Love Letters

Love Letter to Bernice Bing

by Caroline Tracey
Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020

On falling in love with a painter through one photograph.

Eartha

Using painting as a common language, the artists included in Eartha examine the concept of the natural world and their relationship to it. Together, the works offer a different way of being in the world, one that is personal, interconnected, and spiritual, while raising questions of representation, politics, gender and pleasure.

Fernando Reyes: This Land

In this exhibition, Reyes will show work in multiple media: paper cutouts of blooming irises from his garden, landscape paintings in oil, and a large-scale woodcut titled “Winter Oak”. Fernando’s exhibition expresses the visual pleasures of the classic California landscape surrounding this sanctuary in the Sierra Foothills.

Variable West

New Voices on West Coast Art

Tag: landscape painting