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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Waterfall
    • Skagit Landscape of the Mind III
    • Red Tail Soaring
    • The Frog Poet
    • Ginkgos & Waxwings
    • Eagle's Pride
    • Spring in Bloom
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    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
  • Paintings 2
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Two Flickers
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • Autumn Moon by the Sea
    • Chickadee in Snow
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • With Hope and Hard Work
    • Towhee & Currant in Spring
    • Sparrow's Spring
    • Autumn Grasses (Oribe Tribute)
    • A Tribute to Itchiku Kubota: Ozette Sunset
    • Cathedral of the Trees
    • Baillie Scott Trinity
    • Raven's Forest
    • Eagle Embraces Her
  • Paintings 3
    • Small Skagit Landscapes
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    • Curious Crow
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • Maple Leaves in the Stream
    • Plum & Full Moon in Spring
    • Chickadee in the Quince
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Capercaillies Under Scots Pines
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Serizawa's Kimono
    • Cats United
  • Paintings 4
    • Blue Heron, Red Sky
    • As Autumn Approaches
    • Echizen Crows
    • The Spirit of Fallen Camellias
    • Temple Hawk
    • Blood Moon in January
    • Yellow Flags by the Pond
    • Falling Leaves--Washed Away
    • Goldfinch Dream
    • Autumn Carpet
    • An Eala Bahn (The White Swan)
    • Horse Ema
    • Lucia's Maple
    • Eagles Spring Dance
    • Watts Chapel Tribute Memorial
    • Voysey's tree
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      • Camellias in Bloom Woodblock Print
      • Hot Otter Love
      • č’u•? is Seal
      • Loons & Horses
      • Hawk on a Pine 1
      • Elk Along the South Fork
      • Spirits of Ozette
      • Lingcod Guardian
      • Plum Blossoms in Spring
      • Journey Home From Ozette Island
      • Tsooes Sunset
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      • Skagit Valley Chest
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FOXGLOVES REACHING FOR THE SKY
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
SUMMER 2021

     To us, blooming foxgloves have been a sure sign of summer for many years.  While living on the Olympic Peninsula, we would see “fields” of foxgloves forming beautiful gardens and disguising the less-than-beautiful clear cuts in which they were growing.  Lately many foxgloves have seeded themselves in our garden, and they are a welcome sight.  It’s amazing how tall some of them can get, and several this year have inspired both this painting and its title.  I added a tiger swallowtail and a background of miscanthus grass to complete the design.  The artistic inspiration for this work owes much to the Japanese Rinpa School and Ogata Kenzan’s Hollyhocks was very influential in creating my painting.  I made the frame out of red oak using pegged, hand-joined, mortise-and-tenon construction methods.   I used the Japanese technique (shou-sugi-ban) of charring and oiling the oak to finish the frame.
 
DIMENSIONS:   HEIGHT:  23 7/8 inches
                           WIDTH:  15 inches

 
                                                         PRICE $525

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Ogata Kenzan Hollyhocks
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