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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Skagit Landscape of the Mind: Full Moon at Midnight
    • Eggplant Harvest
    • Tomatoes & Wisteria Entwined
    • Waterfall
    • Night at Marymere Falls
    • The Frog Poet
    • Ginkgos & Waxwings
    • Eagle's Pride
    • Spring in Bloom
    • Flower Moon in May
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
  • Paintings 2
    • Autumn Introspection
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Bats' Lunar Playground
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • Autumn Moon by the Sea
    • Chickadee in the Snow
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • 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
    • Running the Waves
    • The Guardian
    • Crows at Sunset
    • Cormorants
    • Skagit Scene
    • Dream Birds
    • Curious Crow
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Serizawa's Kimono
    • Cats United
  • Paintings 4
    • Dance to the Moon
    • When the Salmon Run
    • Autumn Deer
    • As Autumn Approaches
    • Echizen Crows
    • The Spirit of Fallen Camellias
    • Temple Hawk
    • 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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    • Paintings 5 >
      • 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
    • Boxes >
      • Rose Tree Box
      • Celtic Bread Box
      • Creature of the Box
      • Kells Cats Chest
      • Miyamoto's Rice Box
    • Trays >
      • Dragonfly Tray
      • Kaiseki Tray
    • Karakami Square Series >
      • Karakami Square #1: Cherry Tree
    • Screens >
      • Eagles 2-Panel Folding Screen
      • The Four Seasons Screen Series >
        • Winter Screen: Eagle & Pine
        • Fall Screen: Canada Geese & Maples
        • Spring Screen: Cherry Trees & Finches
        • Summer Screen: Swallows & Willow
      • Frog's House Screen
      • Waterfall Screen
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  • Eagle on a Pine
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  • The Fox Spirit (kitsune)
  • Crow on a Snowy Branch
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind V: Winter's Cool
  • Trees IV
  • Water Rabbit
  • Swimming with Sea Lions
  • Ravens Watch
  • Sun-a-do
  • Two Seals
  • Nuthatch & Wild Rose
  • Wagara Mountain
  • Solitary Seal II
  • Raven Song
  • Heron Dream
Picture
SCATTERED FANS
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
SPRING 2017

    I am a huge fan (pun intended) of the Japanese Rinpa School of painting and the works by those artists associated with that design aesthetic will probably always have an influence on my own work.  One of the “founding” painters of Rinpa designs was Tawaraya Sotatsu and his painted screens are celebrated worldwide as some of the greatest works of art.  For this painting I have drawn upon Sotatsu’s Screen with Scattered Fans housed in the Freer Gallery of Art (see Lippit, Yukio and James T. Ulak (eds.), Sotatsu, ©2015, pages 74-75).  Previously I used one of the fans illustrated on this same screen by Sotatsu as the design for my Autumn’s Full Moon painted earlier this year.  For this painting, I transposed designs from several of my earlier paintings onto fans scattered across an undulating background.  The background was inspired by a kosode seen on NHK TV’s Core Kyoto about kyo-kanoko shibori patterns.  This kosode incorporated somewake, broad areas of color produced by shibori or yuzen dyeing techniques.  The fans themselves were “scattered” (chirashi-style) across the design as if they had just been tossed into a flowing stream and I have done the same with my painted fans.   I chose the following paintings to use as my fan designs.  The designs start in the upper left of the painting and rotate clockwise to end at the bottom left.
Fan #1:  Fall Coho on the Wenatchee (Winter 2014)
Fan #2:  Harrier’s Flight (Winter 2014)
Fan #3:  Hummingbird’s Return (Summer 2013)
Fan #4:  Killer Whales (Summer 2012)
Fan #5:  Birds of Fire (Fall 2014)
Fan #6:  Tulips for Mama (Spring 2011
Fan #7:  Kingfisher’s Prize (Spring 2014)
     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:  27 ½ inches
                                    WIDTH:  30 inches


                                                            PRICE $670
Picture
Tawaraya Sotatsu screen with scattered fans
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