Friday Opening, New Work at the Persimmon Gallery

I will be showing an entire body of new work, featuring mostly landscapes and a few still life, all done in the encaustic medium. If you are in the area please pop in! The pieces will be up for two weeks after the opening. I would love for people to see these encaustic works in person, as the depth and richness of the medium is difficult to observe with a computer screen. Also, because of issues I am having with my studio space, I may have to stop working in the encaustic medium for a while and focus on either oils or acrylics for the immediate future.  So this is it folks! It's gonna be a good one.

Flathead Valley

Flathead Valley 8 x 10 Encaustic on wood

Now this one is definitely the Flathead Valley. I worked from a photo I took on a recent drive down to visit my friend, artist Kerry Nagel (of which a post is in the works). It's somewhere between Somers and south Kalispell area.  I love the fields down there at the north end of Flathead Lake. It's gorgeous country.

Autumn

Autumn 8 x 10 Encaustic

Fall in the Flathead Valley is a beautiful time. The fields are dotted with huge round haybales.  The aspen and then the larch trees turn blazing yellows and oranges... and everywhere you go the crisp breeze seems to be whispering in your ear, "get ready, work work work, get'r done!" because winter is coming.

This particular painting isn't really of the Flathead Valley. It's more of a memory of Pullman and the Palouse hills, mixed with the tree-lined, hay fields right down the road from my home.

Heliopsis

Heliopsis  8 x 8 Encaustic on Wood
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Entrance

Entrance       8 x 10     Encaustic on Wood

I am deliberating whether to include the Anthropologieland series in my upcoming show at the Persimmon gallery... they are landscapes, but quite different from the other vein I am working in because they are more about the act of mark making and layering. They do look quite lovely all polished and framed up now... so if there is a place for them they might appear in the show.

Visiting Anthropologieland Again

Window Shopping     8 x 10     Encaustic on Panel

Inspiration

    Evening on Whitefish Lake

 

 Throwing rocks into Lake Macdonald

 

 Storm coming through the neighborhood

 Near Schnauss cabin

 Looking into Glacier Park

 Dusk, North Fork Flathead River

Morning mists south of Polebridge