The Visual Space Gallery has re-located to 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, near 17th and Dunbar. The very attractive new exhibition space is run by photographers Yukiko Onley, Peter Eastwood and Noriko Nasu-Tidball.

Please come by this weekend and celebrate the gallery’s inaugural exhibition. Contributing artists include Tony Onley, David Haughton, Lil Chrzan and Mariko Ando, Jurgen Vogt, John Wilson, Scarlet Black, Florian Nidecker, Yukiko Onley, Peter Eastwood and Noriko Nasu Tidball. The open house with refreshments and live music will be held on December 13 & 14, from 1 pm – 6 pm each afternoon.

The show will continue until January 31 (closed Sundays and Mondays). Hope to see you there!

Dear Friends,

Thank you for coming and please view the photos of the opening! I very much enjoyed putting on my second flash exhibition at Visual Space. Several groups of related works like Crepuscule I, II & III, Before Dawn I & II & multiple series of Nocturnes were shown over three days in the small but warmly elegant space. The paintings were quite varied in size and shape – a significant challenge to exhibit coherently, but the experts from Brandon Thiessen art services who hung the show were clever in their choice of groupings and arrangements and the paintings looked wonderful.

The reception Saturday evening was catered brilliantly by up-and-coming young Vancouver chef Hans Berg. If you’re planning an event, call me for his email! Over 100 good friends attended. If you came, thank you for making the evening special; if you missed it, we hope to see you next time! Please see the wonderful photos below, taken by Yukiko Onley.

(Tip: Scroll down and click the large photo to advance the images, or click one-by-one on the thumbnails.)

The Georgia Straight was gracious enough to print my ad (right) in a good location – one that clearly caught the eye of many people, including some art collectors and even tourists, who travelled to the Gallery by foot, skateboard, bicycle, bus and car – many of whom said very kind things. Now I’m having fun updating my website, marking the paintings that are sold and posting these photos with my website designer, Kits Media.

I will be having a second exhibition of similarly themed paintings entitled Noctunes II in Seattle during the month of November 2014 at Gallery 110. We will likely have an open house in New Westminster on October 18 and 19 to let people in the Vancouver area see the new works. I will let you all know well in advance.

Again, thank you, David

We’re making a list & checking it twice . . .

The paintings have been hung professionally by Brandon Thiessen Art Services.

Lyne went out and got some excellent big Australian Reds and un-oaked Whites, and she’s making sure the wine glasses pass inspection. Hans Berg is making amazing aromas in his kitchen in preparation for Saturday’s reception!

Come anytime noon to 5 today, Saturday or Sunday (May 30, 31 and June 1). I’ll be there.

I look forward to seeing you at the reception tomorrow – 5-8 pm on Saturday, May 31. Yours, David

Visual Space, 2075 Alberta Street (5th Ave & Alberta), Vancouver

Three days: Friday May 30, Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, 2014
Exhibition hours: Noon to 5 pm all three days
Reception by invitation: Saturday May 31, 5 – 8 pm

Dear Friends,
I’m excited my Spring 2014 exhibit will be held in two weeks. I’m hanging the show Thursday afternoon May 29 and it will run the next three days from noon to 5 p.m. Come down and visit – I’ll be there the whole time. Let your friends know!

Lyne and I will be celebrating at the reception Saturday night from 5 p.m. to 8 pm. I’ve sent printed invitations but if I missed you, please come Saturday evening and sign up for future vernissage invitations in my Gallery book. Also let me know if you’re coming if you haven’t done so. We have a chef preparing delicacies and I want to be sure we have lots of wine, beer and cold drinks for you!

View the Nocturnes at: http://www.haughton-art.ca/new-series/nocturne/

Yours, David

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

Dear Friends,

I thought you might enjoy a photo history of my artistic career, so I asked my webmaster Kits Media to create a new section with photos of me taken between the summer of 1975 (my first summer creating independent work) onwards. Take a trip down memory lane with me and link to Photos on Location!

As I mentioned in my last newsletter, I plan to repeat the ‘flash’ exhibit format of a three-day show again this spring on May 30, 31 and June 1, 2014. Please save the dates if you have not already done so, and please let your friends know. I look forward to seeing you again and catching up on your news.

Meanwhile I have added a few more of the newest paintings to my upcoming series of Nocturnes

I am embarrassed to concede a demonstration of my impending senility: I signed all of the newest set of paintings late at night last week and I was clearly very tired. I signed 12 paintings, one after the other and very carefully, with ‘HAUGHTON ’04‘ (wrong year – nay, wrong decade!) The dates will be corrected to 2014, but the photographic record will remain!

Nocturnes: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest
Visual Space – 2075 Alberta Street (5th Ave & Alberta), Vancouver
Three days: Friday May 30, Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, 2014
Exhibition hours: Noon – 5 p.m. all three days
Reception by invitation – Saturday May 31, 5 – 8 pm

I will post more paintings in late April. If you are not already on my email list, please sign up for future newsletters and exhibition reception invitations at www.haughton-art.ca

For now, regards, David

My September ‘flash’ exhibit at the Visual Space Gallery was a very successful and enjoyable event. If you missed my October newsletter you can look at photos of the party (Amazing food! Beautiful people! Lovely exhibition space!)

The ‘flash’ exhibit format – three days only – was so much fun that I plan to repeat it again this spring, and I want everyone to have fair warning: May 30, 31, and June 1, 2014. So please, save the dates!

I will be showing a series of Nocturnes: New Landscape Paintings of the Pacific Northwest that attempt to express the magic and stillness of night. I have posted six new works and will be posting more over the next few months before the show opens. Please let your friends know!

Nocturnes: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest
Visual Space – 2075 Alberta Street (5th Avenue & Alberta Street), Vancouver
Three days: Friday May 30, Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, 2014
Exhibition hours: Noon – 5 p.m. – all three days
Reception: By invitation, Saturday May 31 , 5 – 8 pm

If you are not already on my email list, please sign up for future newsletters and exhibition reception invitations at www.haughton-art.ca There is a signup box on the homepage, bottom right.

Dear Friends,

My recent flash exhibition at Visual Space was a great success. The small, tightly curated group of related works was held over three days in the small but elegant space. The paintings were professionally hung by Brandon Thiessen art services and looked wonderful.

Many good friends attended. Please see the wonderful photos below, taken by Yukiko Onley and Jasmine Allaire.

Georgia Straight was gracious enough to both print my ad and feature my show as a “Straight Choice”, which brought in a large number of delightful people each day, including several long-time fans who I met for the first time. They had seen my work advertised over the years in Canadian Art and in Preview art magazine. I was also pleased to meet other friends with whom I had lost touch, some art collectors and even tourists. Preview also published a review of the exhibit online.

The reception Saturday evening was catered brilliantly by up-and-coming young Vancouver chef Hans Berg. If you’re planning an event, call me for his email!

Now I’m having fun updating my website, marking the paintings that are sold and posting these photos with my website designer, Kits Media

I hope to have a similar flash shows of new work from the series Nocturne in the late spring, and from Paintings of the Sun in the late fall, 2014. I would like to send you email announcements when the dates are set, and if you would like a printed invitation to the next reception, please send me your postal address.

It was great fun to share my work with you and hear what you had to say about the paintings. If you were unable to come, I missed you, and I hope to see you next spring! For those who follow my work online, thank you for taking the time to pay attention to my work. I hope to travel to see you before too long and we can meet for coffee, or a glass of good red wine.

With affection and respect, David

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.

Please enjoy my new website, now built in WordPress, which has some cool features you may find fun to use. Clicking the social share buttons at the bottom of each page allows you to share my site with your sons, daughters, friends, neighbors, business partners — anyone who may be interested! If you know anyone else who might like to join my newsletter, please encourage them to sign up as well. The newsletters will be archived on the website from this point on.

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.

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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