As some of you may know, last spring I had unexpected impetus to savor life and to paint more. A bout of indeterminate chest pressure resulted in my having an angiocath. The result was good, the pain was not cardiac (this time!) but I have raggedy-ass vessel disease that puts me at risk for “next time”.

Fear is a great motivator! The result: I’m now compliant with industrial strength doses of Lipitor, Lyne and I take some scheduled time off together every month, and I’m doing lots of painting. Chest pain = more balance in life, more paintings done, an upcoming exhibition in Seattle, and the re-launch of regular issues of this art-newsletter. I hope to paint many strong works in the next decade or two.

View From the Cottage I, acrylic on multimedia artboard, 7.75 x 30 inches, 2013

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View From (within) the Sea I, acrylic on multimedia artboard, 20 x 24 inches, 2013

My old website still exists, and many of the pages on this site direct to older ones. It’s amazing to look back and review the three websites I’ve developed since the late 1990s. You can find your way to archives of earlier work, if there was a particular piece you wished to reference. And I’m always glad to refer people to my steadfast web developers at www.kitsmedia.ca, who have kept me on the edge of the latest technologies for almost 15 years.

A new exhibition
Fear, Hope and Longing; Paintings of the Pacific Northwest will be shown at the Gallery 110 in Seattle, Washington April 4 – 27th, 2013. I will be exhibiting three series of landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. Although I paint landscapes, emotion anchors each painting. What I’m after is the feeling that I had in front of that landscape, at that particular day and time. In these three series, I seek to set the viewer vibrating in a particular emotional frequency: fear – in the dark cold surf, hope – in the exhilaration of dawn’s rose glow, and longing – in the stillness of sunset’s warm colors.

I would like to invite you to preview the works in person at my open studio/open house in New Westminster on Sunday, March 24th, 2-6 pm. The opening party or vernissage for “Fear, Hope and Longing” will be Wednesday April 3, 2013 at Gallery 110 in Seattle.

View From the Lodge I, acrylic on multimedia artboard,
20 x 24 inches, 2013

Invitations may arrive in the mail the next few weeks, but if you are interested, please put either date in your calendar now, and RSVP if you plan to come so that I have adequate wine and food with which we may celebrate! You can also preview much of the exhibit by linking to recent work or to the Gallery 110 website at http://gallery110.wordpress.com/artists/david-a-haughton/

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