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  • PAINTINGS 1
    • Waterfall
    • 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
    • Bats' Lunar Playground
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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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      • Cedar Waxwing
      • Spotted Towhee
      • Stellar's Jay
      • Evening Grossbeak
      • Red Breasted Nuthatch
      • Black-Capped Chickadee
      • Cardinal
      • 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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  • Night at Marymere Falls
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  • Eggplant Harvest
  • Tomatoes & Wisteria Entwined
  • Running the Waves
  • When the Salmon Run
  • Autumn Deer
  • Dunlin Flight
  • The Fox Spirit (kitsune)
  • Crow on a Snowy Branch
  • Skagit Landscape of the Mind V: Winter's Cool
  • Trees IV
Picture
SERIZAWA'S KIMONO
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR W/RED OAK FRAME
SUMMER 2014
     While researching folding screens in preparation for designing my “Glasgow Peacock Screen” (2010), I was first introduced to the art of Keisuke Serizawa.  Since then I have greatly admired his textile designs.  Similarly I have long had an affection for kimonos and the patterns displayed on them.  Recently, while reading Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design, ©2009, edited by Joe Earle, I was taken by one particular kimono Serizawa created that was illustrated in this book.  The kimono, Seabream, (see pages 64 & 65) specifically appealed to me as it reminded me of the interplay between positive and negative space so frequently used in Native Northwest Coast designs.  It inspired me to do a painting where the background and negative design elements would receive the primary paint color.  My bird design for this piece is reminiscent of the southern tradition of incise-carved designs seen in Salish spindle whorls and combs and in the Makah art from Ozette.  Back in 1975-76 Kirk Wachendorf gave me a photocopy of a chest design from a large bentwood box excavated at the Ozette site.  At the time I was impressed by how, without paint, the formlines were delineated by shallow, incised carvings.  Bill Holm discussed this “donut and hole” method in his essay “Form in Northwest Coast Art” (in Roy L. Carlson (ed.), ©1976, Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast, pages 33-45).  Also in that same book, Richard Daugherty & Janet Friedman’s essay “An Introduction to Ozette Art” (pages 183-195) included a photo of the same chest front Kirk showed me (figure 10:5, page 189).  All of these influences played a major role in the creation of this work and ultimately, it is to honor Serizawa that I painted it.  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:         WIDTH:  33 1/2 inches
                                 HEIGHT:  27 1/2 inches


                                                               PRICE $660
Picture
Keisuke Serizawa "Seabream" kimono
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