I’m happy to say the last set of 8 paintings for my Vancouver show 80+ Views of Mount Baker: Final Homage to Hokusai are now complete and can be seen here on my website.

80+ VIEWS OF MOUNT BAKER – A Final Homage to Hokusai
September 13 – 26, 2018
Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver
Reception: Saturday, September 15, 2018, 5-7 PM
Artist’s Talk: “Hokusai and Me”, 10 AM Wednesday September 26, 2018

Brandon Thiessen will be hanging the series of more than 50 paintings this Wednesday, September 12. More than 40 are being shown in Vancouver for the first time. The exhibit opens at noon on Thursday, September 13.

We’ve got delicious food being planned by the most excellent caterer, Chef Claire, for the reception this coming Saturday, September 15. Please come!

Let me know (RSVP) if you are coming to the reception so I have enough wine, food, glasses etc. Let’s celebrate together the final installment of this homage to Hokusai, my artistic hero.

If you cannot make the reception, the show will be open noon–5 pm daily September 13 – October 3. It has been extended by one week. I’ll be there most days noon–5 pm and we can share a latte, cup of tea or, if late enough in the afternoon, a glass of wine, and catch up on life. Email me at haughton-art@shaw.ca and let me know you will drop by, or surprise me.

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SEATTLE

I’ve had a very interesting 48 hours since my show opened on Thursday. As you may remember, the full title of the show is Angry White Men: Explorations of the Face of Evil.

The gallery press release states, “Combine paintings of Notorious Women and Angry White Men and something explosive will occur: slap-stick comedy, melodrama or tragedy.”

I had thought there was a risk of attack from right-wing wackos. Nope! Not so far, at least!

Instead, a DJ, a few local artists and the owners of two small galleries in the same building have launched a coordinated attack. They somehow concluded that I am a “Nazi sympathizer” (because “my paintings were not ugly”). They were uninterested in dialogue – they would be satisfied only if I gave in to their coercion and took away labels, prices and, indeed, the ENTIRE SHOW from the gallery walls and the Gallery110 and my websites. The gallery owners have encouraged a remarkably unpleasant Facebook trolling campaign against Gallery 110 in an attempt to censor the exhibit.

Gallery 110 is a ‘happening’ place right now. Consider traveling for a romantic and adventurous weekend in Seattle – come to the Artist Talk or the Reception.

Angry White Men
Gallery 110, Seattle
September 6-29, 2018
Artist Talk: September 21, 5-6 pm. “Why Paint Angry White Men?” – “Why Paint Notorious Women?”
Reception: Saturday September 22, 6-7 pm

Let me know (RSVP) if you are coming to the Reception so we have enough wine. I will be providing subsidized covered parking directly across the street from the Gallery from 4 PM until 7:30 PM. Thank you for your support!

Yours, David

You are invited to two very different exhibitions of new work in Seattle and Vancouver in September 2018. Angry White Men further explores the Faces of Evil Series, while 80 View of Mount Baker completes the Mount Baker series. Both feature artist talks and opening receptions with refreshments.

ANGRY WHITE MEN – A Continuing Exploration of the Face of Evil
September 6 – 29, 2018
Gallery 110 at 110 Third Avenue S., Seattle WA 98104
Reception: Saturday, September 22, 2018, 5-7 PM – please RSVP to haughton-art@shaw.ca
Artist’s Talk: “Why paint Angry Men?” 5 PM, Thursday September 20, 2018

A new series of provocative paintings features portraits of neo-Nazis, livid gun advocates, and disenfranchised, resentful and angry protesters. Rich with texture, they capture the rage and violence of angry white men as they express their frustration, desperation and fear towards people who are not like them. The images are taken from news photos in France, Hungary, Bosnia, Poland, England, Scotland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and the USA.

Angry White Men is showing at the same time as Notorious Women – an exhibition of paintings by my Gallery 110 colleague Li Turner. Her beautiful and provocative works provide an interesting counterpoint to mine. The reception will be 5-7 PM, Saturday September 22, 2018. Please come! I will be mailing invitations, but as of this moment, consider yourself invited, and please RSVP if you are coming. NB: It’s an excuse for a romantic weekend getaway, even if my works explore darkness, the city of Seattle is beautiful!

80+ VIEWS OF MOUNT BAKER – A Final Homage to Hokusai
September 13 – 26, 2018
Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, BC
Reception: Saturday, September 15, 2018, 5-7 PM – please RSVP to haughton-art@shaw.ca
Artist’s Talk: “Hokusai and Me”, 10 AM Wednesday September 26, 2018

This will be the final installment of the series with at least 25 new works, as well as over a dozen shown only so far in Seattle. View works as they as added to the website.

Please plan on attending the reception on Saturday September 15, 2018. Come share some excellent food, a glass of wine, and toast the “old man crazy about painting” with us. Email me and let me know you are coming!

ASKING FOR HELP
Gallery 110 in Seattle is where I have been able to exhibit my more difficult work – the Kindertotentanz, Bad Guys and now, Angry White Men. It is a small, artist-run, non-profit organization. I am asking you, please, to make a donation. We are raising funds with a goal of $5000, which will fully fund two 18- month Gallery 110 memberships for young artists. Your donations will give them the opportunity to work and exhibit with our non-profit gallery community. Any donation – large or small – will help! Donate safely using the Paypal “Donate” button on the Gallery 110 website.

With great affection, David

Michael Abraham and I are having a very successful show in Seattle. It continues until this Saturday. We hope you’ll be able to come by this week if you haven’t had a chance. Please see a mention of our exhibits on Vanguard Seattle.

Over 350 people came through on First Thursday. Some actually gasped when they saw the works, which was a great compliment. On Saturday, March 3 over 90 people attended our reception hosted by the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle – represented by Michael S. Wooff, Consul and Senior Trade Commissioner, and Bryce Campbell, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Services Officer.

Visit me this week!
Let me know if you can come this week! Visit with me over a cappuccino (or a cup of tea) and have a piece of brownie or banana rum-raisin bread. I’ll be in the gallery on Thursday March 29 noon – 5 pm through Saturday March 31. Michael will be coming down on Saturday afternoon and the show will be over at 5 pm on Saturday.

Please view our work online at www.haughton-art.ca, www.michaelabraham.com and/or www.gallery110.com. If you are seriously interested in a particular work you see online, contact me or Michael and you can reserve it.

I’m looking forward to the next exhibit in Vancouver in September. I’m planning to add at least 20 new works to the 40+ Views of Baker Series. The reception will be Saturday September 15, 2018 at the Visual Space Gallery on Dunbar – please mark it in your calendar now!

Please come to my open house! If you’d like to preview my Seattle exhibit while the paintings are still in Vancouver, visit the purple house in New Westminster this Sunday afternoon, February 18 from 1-4 PM. Come have coffee, tea or a glass of wine with us. Email me and let me know.

Michael Abraham, the well-known Vancouver area painter, will be showing his paintings at Gallery 110 in March as well. If you don’t yet know his magical-realism works, I strongly recommend you seek them out. They are very strong and highly collectable.

If you cannot make it south, take a look at our work online at www.haughton-art.ca, www.michaelabraham.com and/or www.gallery110.com.

Kits Media has posted the last nine finished paintings on my website and on Gallery 110. The paintings will travel south on February 23.

Please note: If you are interested in a particular work you see online, contact me or Michael and you can reserve it before the show opens.

An excuse for a journey to Seattle
40+ views of Mount Baker: Homage to Hokusai is scheduled for March, 2018 and will include many new paintings of Mount Baker. Hokusai extended his 36 Views of Mt. Fuji series by 10 works; I am taking similar license with my arithmetic, but am adding 19 new works to my series.

The Consulate General of Canada, Seattle will be sponsoring the reception for the show on Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 5-7 PM. Parking will be available at cost ($10) across the street from Gallery 110 at 117 Third Avenue South.

I am mailing invitations this week. Why not have a romantic weekend getaway! Please RSVP if you are coming.

40+ views of Mount Baker: Homage to Hokusai
March 1-31, 2018
Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington
Reception: Saturday, March 3, 5-7 PM – please RSVP to haughton-art@shaw.ca
Artist’s Talk: “Hokusai and Me”, Sunday, March 10, 2018 Note change of date!

Hoping to see you soon. With great affection, David

At 0700 on Sunday October 29, 2017, at the end of my last overnight shift in Pediatric Emergency, I packed up some photos, handed away my medical textbooks, and cancelled my medical license. As of that moment I became a full-time artist.

A donation – an opportunity in February 2018
I have donated View from the Balcony IV from the 40+ Views of Mt. Baker series to the silent auction at the 23rd annual For Children We Care gala on Saturday, February 17, 2018. If you are interested in making a donation to BC Children’s Foundation in support of the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children Enhancement Initiative, and want a memento of the donation, consider attending the gala and bidding high enough to get this painting. Or contact Joanne Poon at joanne.poon@bcchf.ca and ask how you can bid. The bidding should start at regular price of the work: $1300.

An excuse for a journey: my exhibition in Seattle – in March 2018
40+ views of Mount Baker: Homage to Hokusai is scheduled for March, 2018 and will include many new paintings of the sacred volcano known to First Nations as Koma Kulshan, or “white sentinel crater”. Michael Abraham, another Vancouver area painter, will be showing his paintings as well. The Canadian Consulate for Seattle is sponsoring the reception on Saturday, March 3, 2018. Please come! I will be mailing invitations as well, but as of this moment, consider yourself invited! Please RSVP if you are coming. It’s an excuse for a romantic weekend getaway!

40+ views of Mount Baker: Homage to Hokusai
March 1-31, 2018
Gallery 110, Seattle WA
Reception: Saturday, March 3, 5-7 PM – please RSVP to haughton-art@shaw.ca
Artist’s Talk: “Hokusai and Me”, Saturday March 10, 2018

I share a view of studio preparations for my March 2018 exhibition 40+ VIEWS OF MOUNT BAKER: Homage to Hokusai. If you’d like to preview the show in the Vancouver area, please attend an open house Sunday afternoon, February 18 from 1-4 PM at the purple house in New Westminster. Come have coffee, tea or a glass of wine with us. Email me and let me know you are coming.

With great affection, David

The show is up! Brandon Thiessen and his colleague Cole did their usual magic and the exhibition is beautifully hung and lighted. I’m sending a few images as they made the magic happen.

Fresh flowers are in the vases. I’ve got music playing and a kettle to make tea. Lyne made killer chocolate-expresso brownies for me to share with any visitors.

The show opens tomorrow at the Visual Space Gallery on Dunbar (between 17 & 18th) and runs for two weeks until the afternoon of Wednesday, September 27.

The show will be open everyday noon-5 pm. I will be there every day except Monday, September 18.

You’re invited to celebrate at the reception this Saturday, September 16, 4-7 pm.

There will be most excellent nibbles made by Chef Claire.

On Sunday, September 24, you are invited to an artist talk “Hokusai and Me” at 2 pm.

I hope to see you all one day during the next two weeks! With affection and respect, David

A preview of frantic preparations for my September 2017 exhibition!

40 VIEWS OF MOUNT BAKER: Homage to Hokusai

September 14-27, 2017
Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver
Reception: Saturday, September 16, 4-7 PM
Artist’s Talk: “Hokusai and Me”, Sunday, September 24, 2017

I’m on Quadra Island with friends and family, and painting a few hours each day. All are started… it’s the finishing that I’m working on. I’m excited about the arrangements so far, including –

• I’ve arranged for the show to be professionally hung by Brandon Theissen and Co.
• I’ve alerted Chef Clare to provide fantastic food and her gracious catering team for the reception.
• Graeme Warren of Westart is preparing his excellent floating frames for the works.
• I “volunteered” my sister and nephews to address invitation envelopes (if I have your mailing address, you should receive one shortly).
• I’ve booked adverts in Preview Magazine and the Georgia Straight.
• Mia Johnson of Kits Media, my website maven, has posted nine of the finished paintings on the web.

Now I’m hoping that you will come to the show!

If you live far away, I hope you’ll take the time to look at the new paintings online.

Please come to the reception Saturday September 16, 4-7 PM.

Let me know if you’d like to preview the show Wednesday late afternoon September 13 – after the show is hung, but before it is officially open (the “vernissage” in Europe).

I’ll be giving an Artist’s Talk on “Hokusai and Me” on Sunday September 24, 2017.

With great affection, David

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