Image titled: Stranger in Town. April 2017 Photographer Neal Maine, PacificLight Images. Just in time for BLOOM, an exhibition, at Fairweather’s. A Baltimore Oriole visiting a backyard in Seaside, Oregon! Image backstory: Once again, one Baltimore Oriole, a stranger to the…
“Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works,” wrote the 19th-century poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. And so it does. Emerson’s simple musing captures the spirit of painters, who…
Image titled: Birds of a Feather. The famous Seaside osprey pair! Image backstory: Flying above their nesting platform. An eagle came too close and the pair moved in tandem to a safer spot. The female, with a band on her…
Save the date. April 1st. 5-7:pm. Seaside First Saturday Art Walk Opening reception for BLOOM, featuring artists Bev Drew Kindley, Gretha Lindwood with special guest appearance by Diana Moulder and ecology lecture by naturalist Neal Maine. Fairweather House and…
Source: Beaver Tales arriving to the historic Gilbert District for an Art Walk! May 6th.
Varied Thrush by Neal Maine. Fun Fact: Discovered in Doug Ray’s back yard in March, 2017. About Neal Maine: After a thirty-year career as an award-winning biology teacher at Seaside High School, Neal Maine became the first executive director of…
Front display table at Fairweather’s featuring calligraphy by Penelope Culbertson. Please go to …artists tab/ Penelope Culbertson. Grace Note: To Fairweather artists, guests and cultural art patrons: “Thank you for the sharing of your time at the opening reception of Irish…
“For BLOOM, Fairweather’s April exhibition, most of my art will be about the joy of spring, all Oregon inspired. I’m including one I especially like: “Awakening Wetlands” , 8×10 acrylic on canvas, $365, begun outdoors on a chilly but misty…
Image titled: Flight Master. Northern Harrier, photographed on Del Ray Beach, Gearhart, Oregon by Neal Maine/PacificLight Nature Images. March 2017. Proceeds in support of NCLC, North Coast Land Conservancy. For more than 30 years, North Coast Land Conservancy has been…
Triskel, or Triquetra, symbolizing the ancient concept of eternal renewal, adopted by Christianity as a way to explain the Trinity. Pearls, sterling and crystal by Mary Hurst Ryan, Celtic jewelry designer. “I enjoy the blog and see how busy and…