John Cole - Paintings and Drawings

January 4 - 27, 2024
Reception: First Thursday, January 4, 6-8 PM
Open House: Saturday, January 6, 3-5 PM

Recognized as one of the Pacific Northwest’s pre-eminent landscape painters, John D. Cole (1937-2007) was a British-born American painter who made his home in Bellingham, Washington for over 30 years. The exhibition, John Cole - Paintings and Drawings, will include a curated selection of rare works, many on paper and previously unseen. Favoring abstraction over literal description, John Cole’s distinctive, muscular style, which evolved out of his European background and American modernist influences, sublimely expresses the key features of the majestic Northwest landscape— water, mountains, and trees. Cole painted more than a thousand oils, pastels, and acrylic paintings in his lifetime. He also made studies with pen, ink, and charcoal outdoors, many of which were the basis for larger studio works, and complemented his love of the outdoors.

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