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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • I Heard a Loon Calling
    • Spring in Bloom
    • Hiding in the Tall Grass
    • Flower Moon in May
    • Enduring Pine
    • When the Wisteria Blooms
    • Snow on the Beach
    • It Only Takes One
    • Scattered Fans
    • White Circle of Silence
    • Northwest Rain Kosode
    • Weasel Mania
    • In the Spirit of Serizawa & Kubota
    • On Eagle's Wings Ema
  • Paintings 2
    • Down by the Stream on a Lazy Summer's Day
    • With Hope and Hard Work
    • Towhee & Currant in Spring
    • Sparrow's Hop Hideaway
    • Windswept Pine Near the Shore
    • Sparrow's Spring
    • Autumn Grasses (Oribe Tribute)
    • Life's Essence
    • A Tribute to Itchiku Kubota: Ozette Sunset
    • Cathedral of the Trees
    • Tree of Life II
    • Raven's Forest
    • Baillie Scott Trinity
    • Eagle Embraces Her
  • Paintings 3
    • Hydrangea's Final Bloom
    • Pine Island
    • Autumn Friends
    • Maple Leaves in the Stream
    • Plum & Full Moon in Spring
    • Chickadee in the Quince
    • The Four Guardians
    • Circle About the Moon
    • Eelgrass Nursery Rhyme
    • Bluebird & Bamboo
    • Capercaillies Under Scots Pines
    • Cedar Green Man
    • Cats United
    • Serizawa's Kimono
  • Paintings 4
    • Hummingbird & Fuchsia 4
    • Blood Moon in January
    • Yellow Flags by the Pond
    • Falling Leaves--Washed Away
    • Goldfinch Dream
    • Camellias in Bloom Woodblock Print
    • Autumn Carpet
    • An Eala Bahn (The White Swan)
    • Two Eagles Entwined
    • Horse Ema
    • Lucia's Maple
    • Eagles Spring Dance
    • Watts Chapel Tribute Memorial
    • Voysey's tree
    • Hot Otter Love
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      • č’u•? is Seal
      • Loons & Horses
      • Elk Along the South Fork
      • Spirits of Ozette
      • Lingcod Guardian
      • Plum Blossoms in Spring
      • Hops & Butterflies
      • Journey Home From Ozette Island
      • Tsooes Sunset
    • Trays >
      • Dragonfly Tray
      • Kaiseki Tray
    • Boxes >
      • Rose Tree Box
      • Celtic Bread Box
      • Creature of the Box
      • Skagit Valley Chest
      • Kells Cats Chest
      • Miyamoto's Rice Box
    • Karakami Square Series >
      • Karakami Square #1: Cherry Tree
    • Screens >
      • Eagles 2-Panel Folding Screen
      • The Four Seasons Screen Series >
        • Fall Screen: Canada Geese & Maples
        • Winter Screen: Eagle & Pine
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        • Summer Screen: Swallows & Willow
      • Frog's House Screen
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  • The Frog Poet
  • Kingfisher on a Branch
  • Chickadee in Snow
  • Dogs of the Sea
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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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