The Archives

2003 "Frozen Lale", 1985 "The Lake", 1990 "Spring Thaw"

Image courtesy of Shawn Long Photography

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Calm at the Top and company

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The Scroll, 6' of 220!

Here is the scroll in it's case at Rake Art Gallery. On the wall behind the case are high resolution digital prints scanned from the original drawing, and printed on high quality museum rag paper in an edition of 25 for each image. Larger prints are 74" x 14" and the smaller prints are 46" x 14"

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Installation view of The Rock Garden

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Excerpts from Flow

Around 210 feet

from The Rock Garden


Around 220 feet, The End!

Selections from the Rock Garden

In August 2007, with the drawing "Flow" 2/3 complete, I did a series of 16 rock portraits in a sketch book while backpacking in Humphries Basin in the John Muir Wilderness in Fresno County. All of these portraits were transcribed into the scroll as part of its final 20' grand finale. In addition, a few of these portraits were incorporated into the paintings that were completed for the exhibit as well.

(appears in "Calm at the Top")

(appears in "Rock Still Life")


ink and graphite on paper
image size 5 x 7
framed size 9 x 11
Archival framing from Katayama Framing in Portland Oregon
dark finished walnut frame by Marcial del Cid of Aloha Oregon
8 ply museum rag mat, and UV filtering glass

$350.00 each

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The Reflecting Pool

Excerpt from "Flow" at aproximately 200'

Freshly completed in late April and now hanging at Rake, this painting displays the full range of my representational and conceptual cross-polination. The rock composition appeared first as innocuous background in a photo taken by a friend, at the Kern River along it's forested lower elevation shore on the western slope of the High Sierra. I interpreteed these river boulders into a section of the 200' scroll, giving them a new setting and scale as rock hopping stones in my alpine stream. For this painting, I re-interpreted them yet again as stones breaking the surface in the shallows along the shore of an alpine lake in "The Reflecting Pool"

2008
oil on canvas
72 x 45
$3,500.00
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Alpine Lake Triptych

Detail of one of the three canvases that form this triptych of nearly identical paintings.

Installation photographs by Shawn Long

2008
25 x 40
oil on canvas

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$1,200.00

Thirteen Stones

As promised, here is Thirteen Stones in it''s entirety.

40 X 65
oil on canvas
2008

$3,500.00

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The Frozen Lake

The alpine story begins here.. Many of the high lakes in the Sierra Nevadas remain frozen over until mid to late summer, depending on how heavy the snowfall was the previous winter. Frigid looking scenes like this unfold before the traveler on warm afternoons when the order of the day is a sweat soaked t-shirt and short pants. Snow melt from the high elevations feed streams and creeks all through the summer and provide sight and sounds wherever you travel, as well as an occaisional difficult water crossing through stiff currents and over slippery rocks.

45 x 45
oil on canvas
2003

$1,500.00

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Spring Thaw

In the beginning, there were 10 stretcher bars constructed in 1988 of various sizes that were to be painted illustrations for a narrative surrounding the life cycle of a single leaf on a tree in the woods, through the complete seasonal cycle. Tree in winter was the first painting, begun in 1988 but put away due to the impracticality of trying to work with messy and toxic mediums in the living quarters of an inqusitive toddler. In 1990, and living in a different apartment where I had a single car garage to work in as a studio, I made an attempt to complete the Winter Tree painting, and moved on to this canvas. This work shows the same scene, but is focused on the rocks and stream close and to the left of the trees lower trunk, where the early spring thaw has allowed a small stream to flow again. I only lived at that apartment long enough to complete these two paintings, and as mentioned in my earlier post, I reworked the original painting yet again when I began working in my current studio here in Portland. I never returned to my narrative series about the leaf on the tree, and used the remaining stretchers for the other work that I made beginning in 2002 when my current studio became usable. These two canvases are a reminder of that ambitious project, and this image is a direct forerunner to my current interest in depicting the streams and lake shorelines of the alpine environs of the mountains that mean so much to me.

1990
oil on canvas
44 x 31

$1,200.00

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Tree in Winter

This was a project begun in 1988 with a toddler in the house and no good area to work in, re-visited in 1990, and finally completed in 2003. At one time there had been a bird hopping through the snow.

40 x 45
oil on canvas
$1,200.00 un framed + shipping
since Rake art gallery is no longer in buisness, this work can be purchased directly from the artist

The Calm at the Top

2007
oil on canvas
44 x 75

$3,500.00

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More Flow!

Holy crap! presentation of this drawing is a major engineering and planning nightmare. With the installation date only 11 days away I have images to have printed and framed and the display case to build and finish, paintings to complete and more to frame, and the video installation is in the hands of others and I can only pray that it all comes off professional and on time! Enjoy another section from the 200' scroll while I go pull out my hair!

Flow

Well, I've been away for a week and jet lagged for another so haven't posted much in a while. Now that I'm back in the saddle I'm trying to prepare various artworks for exhibition at the end of the month. Much of the focus now is on the display of a 200' scroll of paper with a drawing of an alpine stream on it's length. Here are a couple excerpts from this work.

"Flow" at 70 feet

"Flow" at 185 feet

Thirteen Stones (detail)

This is only a detail of the completed painting which I will reveal in it's entirety here after my exhibit opens in May. This updates my previous posting of this image. The complete painting is 40' wide and 72' tall.

"Thirteen Stones" in progress

Here is a detail from something I'm working n right now. It no longer resembles this image and is such a small part of the overall painting that I feel free to post it here. I'll put up all of the finished products in May so be patient!

Lake rock

This is finished now and will be paired with another almost identical mage to form a sort of double vision diptych