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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
    • 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
    • Foxgloves Reaching for the Sky
    • Bats' Lunar Playground
    • Plum Tree on a Snowy Night
    • 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
    • Crow on a Snowy Branch
    • Running the Waves
    • The Guardian
    • 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
    • Skagit Landscape of the Mind V: Winter's Cool
    • 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
    • Peacock Sconces
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  • Trees IV
  • Wagara Mountain
  • Heron Dream
  • Raven-White to Black
  • Anna's Home
  • Crows Know All
  • Solitary Seal
  • Falcon II
  • Northern Flicker II
  • Chickadees Among the Horsetails
  • Blue Heron
  • I Hear Geese Calling
  • Calling All Frogs
  • Octopus Vision
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SPRING IN BLOOM
ACRYLICS ON CEDAR w/RED OAK FRAME
SPRING 2020
​     I am not sure why, but it seems that this spring we have been blessed with an explosion of color.  Flowers are in bloom everywhere, and the neighborhood yards are each a canvas of the most beautiful work Mother Nature can conceive.  The potted Lewisia on our front porch is no exception, and I believe it is showing its greatest flowering since we’ve had it.  All of this exciting and prolific color was the inspiration for this painting.  I turned to the amazing designs found on Japanese textiles (kosode and kimono specifically) as my artistic source for ideas and motifs (see images below for examples).  To represent the fine embroidery found on luxurious kimono, I used reflective gold paint.  I made the frame for this painting 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 15 inches
​                               WIDTH 11 3/4 inches


                                                                  PRICE $300
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our Lewisia in full bloom--May 2020
Gary Giovane
La Conner, WA
gioart13@yahoo.com
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