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!)

Nocturne, Three Ships, 2013

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

Crepuscule – One Ship, Spanish Banks, 2013

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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.

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

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.

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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