Dear Friends — Lately I’m inspired by an intense feeling of personal vulnerability and evanescence. Perhaps it is that I am perched on the seam between two tectonic plates in temporary equipoise, awaiting the slip, the earthquake, the tsunami. Perhaps it is that I am on the edge of leaving a secure income for a life of full-time painting. More likely: I am sixty years old.

These paintings helped me recognize that I am not really interested in painting rocks, waves and trees per se; rather I am driven to paint emotions — in particular, the three emotions of fear, hope and longing.

Dark massive waves reflect dread of loss of control and fear of death. Warm fleeting colors of dawn echo the brief surge of morning hope. Sunset calm and sherbet colors echo the aching vibrations of longing – ‘may this good life continue’. Yes, my paintings have recognizable trees, sky and ocean, but although that is what I am inspired by, it is not what I am striving for in my paintings.

I am proud of these works, and I hope you will take the time to visit them either at the Visual Space Gallery in Vancouver, or on the website www.haughton-art.ca

Reception
If you have not received an invitation, you are still invited!
Saturday November 26, 2016
Please come if you can.

Artist’s Talk
You are invited to a short talk by the artist at 2 pm, Sunday December 4, 2016.
Entrance is free and refreshments will be served. Dialogue welcome.

For information and images, please contact:

David A. Haughton – 604 525 2412
haughton-art@shaw.ca

Yukiko Onley – 604 559 0576
Visual Space Gallery

With friendship and gratitude. Hoping to see you or hear from you soon!
David

Dear Friends,

It will be a pretty busy two-month stretch! I have a show opening in the first week of October in Seattle along with my friend, the great Vancouver artist Michael Abraham, and a solo show opening in Vancouver in the last week of November. I hope to see some of you there!

Being Vancouver guys, Michael and I are asking all our clients and friends to share with people they may know in the Seattle area. You can forward this email to friends using the link at the bottom of the page. Thank you kindly.

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GALLERY 110, SEATTLE
October 6-26, 2016
Naughty and Bad Guys
A two-person exhibition featuring the artwork of Michael Abraham and David Haughton

‘Naughty’
by Michael Abraham
Paintings and bronzes exploring facets of modern society, reflecting on ‘good’, ‘righteousness’ and ‘power’ – images of people who know their power but may not know their flaws, revealing an undercurrent of darker truth. The exhibition includes the latest painting, ‘Pants on Fire’, and the bronze ‘Satyr and Sunshine’. View more by Michael Abraham

‘Bad Guys: Mug Shots and Evil in Disguise
by David Haughton
Taken from actual mug shots, Haughton’s series of acrylic and mixed media paintings signify an attempt to discern whether evil can be seen, and if perhaps this is one reason why gazing upon the mug shot and the soulless eyes of monsters wearing human skin enchant us on some semi-conscious level. View Bad Guys: Mug Shots and Evil in Disguise

Opening Reception: Saturday October 8, 2016, 5-7:30 pm
Please RSVP for the Saturday reception, so we can order enough wine for you!
RSVP to director@gallery110.com

Art Walk: October 6, 6-8 pm
Both artists will be also be in attendance for the ‘First Thursday’ Art Walk

Gallery Talks: Sunday, October 23, 2016 from 12-4 pm
1 pm: Michael Abraham: Role of the Artist in an Age of Turmoil
2 pm: David Haughton: Why Paint Bad Guys?!??

Visit Gallery110
Thursday – Saturday 12-5 pm
Phone 206-624-9336
110 3rd Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98104
www.gallery110.com

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VISUAL SPACE GALLERY, VANCOUVER
November 23 – December 8, 2016
Fear Hope and Longing III: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest
by David Haughton

My second fall exhibition – Fear, Hope and Longing III – will open in November at the Visual Space Gallery on Dunbar Street. The show will last a full two weeks, last week November – first week December and will be open daily, noon – 6 pm. The next set of finished works have been posted on my website: http://www.haughton-art.ca/exhibitions/upcoming/

Opening reception:  Saturday, November 26, 5–8 pm  — a small change of date. Please change the date in your appointment book and calendar. Your printed invitation will be arriving by mail in late October/early November.

Dinner parties
The evenings I will be hosting dinner parties at Gallery for patrons, friends and interested art-lovers have shifted: now they will be on Friday, November 25 and Saturday, December 3. Please pencil in one of those dates and let me know: either evening! I guarantee good food, good wine and very interesting people. RSVP to haughton-art@shaw.ca

Yours sincerely, David Haughton

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Fear Hope and Longing III: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest
Visual Space Gallery
3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, BC
November 23 – December 8, 2016

Dear Friends,

Plans for this Fall’s exhibition of my new landscape paintings of the western coast of Vancouver Island – Fear, Hope and Longing III – are coalescing nicely.

Visual Space Gallery will be the location. The show will last a full two weeks, last week November – first week December and will be open daily, noon – 6 pm. I’ve invested in new LED lights (much cooler – for those attended my last show in the Dunbar location) with special LED spotlights for smaller works.

I finished a number of the paintings while in Tofino with Lyne the last two weeks of April. Images of the works were captured by master art photographer Ted Clarke of Image This Photography

The next set of finished works have just been posted on my website in Upcoming Exhibitions.

I have confirmed the venue. I’ve set the scene….. now I need some company!

Opening reception will be Thursday November 24th, 5 – 8 pm. Please plan on coming. Put it in your appointment book and calendar.

I will also be hosting dinner parties at Gallery (it has a small kitchen) on Saturday November 26th and Friday December 2nd. Pencil in those dates!

Let me know if you can come either evening. I guarantee good food, good wine and very interesting people.

OTHER NEWS
At Gallery 110 in Seattle during October 2016, I will be showing a series of much darker, figurative works– a series of portraits of “Bad Guys” – acrylic paintings exploring the ‘Face of Evil’. The first images of the two series can be viewed at Mug Shots and Evil in Disguise.

“We love mug shots. The newspapers show us the faces of “bad guys”: serial killers and wife-beaters, terrorists and animal abusers, pederast priests and gang-bangers, rapacious corporate scam-artists and nasty racist small-town sheriffs. We find it endlessly absorbing, searching in the facial bone structure, or the skin color, or the facial hair for a pattern we can recognize as dangerous, trying to discover some clue of expression that would identify and warn of evil within.“

Yours, David A. Haughton – Painter

Dear Friends,

During our sojourns to Tofino, Lyne and I always stay in a cabin on Mackenzie Beach. This year, in January, I had intended to work further on a new series of paintings. But I got sidetracked.

We had the best of winter weather: tremendous storms all times of the day and night, calm early mornings with subtle tints and sunsets dramatic and blustery. Instead of following my plan, I was compelled to paint the waves, rocks, islands and mists – eventually making such huge progress within the continuation of the series Fear, Hope and Longing that I have rearranged my exhibition plans for the next three years.

I am aiming to have Fear, Hope and Longing III ready for a Fall 2016/Spring 2017 exhibition. I have yet to confirm the venue. But I’m excited by the first five finished works that I have just posted on my website: http://www.haughton-art.ca/exhibitions/upcoming/

Other news:

I have started work on a new series of paintings titled 40 views of Mount Baker, inspired by the Hokusai series of woodcut prints “36 Views of Mt. Fuji”. This summer Lyne and I circumnavigated the mountain, giving me a chance to see all sides – and the many moods – of the peak. I have started quite a number of paintings and will have more news soon.

I will be showing a series of figurative works in Seattle in October 2016 – a series of portraits of “Bad Guys”. More information to come!

Thank you for your interest in my work. Yours, David A. Haughton – Painter

Nocturnes III – New Paintings of the Georgia Strait and Vancouver Harbour
Dear Friends,

The three-day “flash” exhibition and reception at the Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, May 29-31, 2015 was a great success. To those who came and celebrated with me and who thus made the weekend so special, many thanks. Please see photos of the reception below!

Many people deserve credit: Yukiko Onley and her partners of the Visual Space Gallery created the lovely space in which to hold the exhibition. Graeme of Westart, 303 West 7th Ave, Vancouver, framed the paintings beautifully. Brandon Thiessen and his colleagues hung the show and garnered many compliments.

Mia Johnson of Kits Media designed my beautiful website and kept up with the frequent status changes for individual paintings. Chef Claire and Tammara Whelon of Chefclaires.com served wonderful food and wine. Kelsey Klassen of the Westender wrote an eloquent article about the show . I am grateful to them all!

If you couldn’t come – please take a look at the paintings at www.haughton-art.ca – or, better yet, come on out to New Westminster for a glass of wine or an iced coffee and a chance to see them on the wall. The remaining paintings from the Noctunes I, II & III have all been hung professionally by Thiessen Art Services and they look wonderful. We’ll be around this Sunday afternoon June 14th as well as several of the weekends in July.

With affection and respect,
David
haughton-art@shaw.ca
604-525-2412

I was pleased to have a review of my current show featured in the West Ender this week.

VANCOUVER ARTIST PAINTS PORTRAITS OF A THREATENED LANDSCAPE
“In light of the recent bunker-fuel spill, however, which dumped at least 2800 litres from a grain ship into English Bay, and talk of increased oil tanker traffic from Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby terminal, Haughton says his latest series, Nocturnes III, is a reminder of what could be lost.

“This series is a bit poignant, anyway, because of the colour at the end of the day,” says Haughton, “and it becomes more poignant as you think about the potential arguments about the environment, [and that] the landscape we love may also disappear if these changes happen.”

Read the full article in the West Ender newspaper
I look forward to seeing you this weekend at the exhibit – details below!

 
Nocturnes III – New Paintings of the Georgia Strait and Vancouver Harbour
Twenty-one new paintings will be on view starting today at a three-day “flash” exhibition, Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, May 29-31, 2015. In addition, eight works shown at Gallery 110 in Seattle will be shown.

Reception tomorrow: Saturday May 30, 2015 from 5 – 8 pm at the Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver (between 17 & 18th Avenue on the east side of Dunbar).

Dear Friends,

I am writing to invite you to the reception for my upcoming exhibition: Nocturnes III – New Paintings of the Georgia Strait and Vancouver Harbour on May 30, 2015.

Twenty-one new paintings will be on view at a three-day “flash” exhibition at the Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, May 29-31, 2015. In addition, eight works shown at Gallery 110 in Seattle will be shown.

You are invited to the reception on Saturday May 30, 2015 from 5 – 8 pm at the Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver (between 17 & 18th Avenue on the east side of Dunbar). Please RSVP and let me know if you are coming so I have enough wine and food!

Nocturnes III features acrylic paintings of the Burrard Inlet, including views of the working harbor, freighters in the bay, the mountains and dramatic evening and early morning skies.

I find these paintings are particularly poignant in the light of the recent oil leak in English Bay, and the possibility of additional oil tanker traffic. Vancouver’s enchanting and fragile way of life – our beaches overlooking the sea – unencumbered views of a few scattered and benign ships surrounded by myriad sailboats, paddleboards and windsurfers – may soon be dramatically altered. We are privileged to live in such a place of natural beauty and I certainly enjoy painting it!

If you cannot make it, I hope you will look at the new paintings for the current exhibit and let me know what you think. If you want to give one of them a home, let me know that as well!

With affection and respect, David
haughton-art@shaw.ca

You are invited to a special invitation-only reception on Saturday May 30, 5-8 pm for my upcoming exhibit of paintings at Visual Space, Vancouver. There will be wine, excellent food and good conversations!

The exhibit features a new series of works entitled Nocturnes III, New Paintings of the Pacific Northwest. The first completed paintings in this series can be viewed at www.haughton-art.ca/current-exhibit

The exhibit is a three-day event, starting Friday May 29 and running through to Sunday May 31, from noon-5 all three days. The Visual Space Gallery is located at 3352 Dunbar Street. I look forward to seeing you there.