Art notecards for sale

I’ve got blank notecards featuring images of some of my paintings. Each notecard is 4-1/8” x 5-3/4”. Each comes in a clear plastic sleeve, with an appropriately sized white envelope.

$5 each, plus tax if shipped to Washington State.

$1 shipping charge — free shipping for an order of 5 or more cards.

Top row, left to right: Appreciation 14; Colorado River at Navajo Ridge; Desert moons; Exit right; The final touch

Second row, left to right: Fred’s shadow; Fulara; Ife iya; The Impossibility of Knowing (17); The Impossibility of Knowing (25)

Third row, left to right: The Impossibility of Knowing (27); The Impossibility of Knowing (30); The Impossibility of Knowing (34); The Impossibility of Knowing (36); Night wave 1

Bottom row, left to right: October sunset; Pasaje; Shadowed self

Send me an e-mail (jw@jwharrington.com) if you’d like one or more, or if you have questions. I’ll calculate tax and shipping, and we can arrange for payment and shipping.

"Joy at days' end"

Joy at days’ end. Oil on canvas, 24”x 24”x 1.5”. $500

I’m excited about this new painting for three reasons: it reflects the day I retired from 37 years as an academic (hence the “days’ end”); it’s the first time I used classic oil-painting techniques of underpainting, layering, and glazing; and I think it’s the best portrait I’ve produced so far.

When I started painting almost nine years ago, I declared a goal that within 10 years, I wanted to be able to enter my studio and undertake a meaningful non-objective abstraction, a landscape, or a portrait with confidence, with my choice based on what I felt was needed rather than on fear of working in any particular genre. Of course this painting isn’t perfect by my standards, but I feel good about my progress.

Available — though I’ll be displaying it in a July-August show in Tacoma — contact me at jw@jwharrington.com

Full slate of summer showings

Here’s the full schedule of summer showings of my work — come by and say hello!

June 29 - August 18:  21st Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition at the Tacoma Community College Gallery.

June 30 - August 10:  BIMA Spotlight, at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. 

July 3 - August 30:  "Portraits & Portals: Revealing & Concealing" solo show at the Tahoma Center Gallery in downtown Tacoma.

July 6 - August 12:  "The Impossibility of Knowing" solo show at the Magnuson Park Gallery in NE Seattle.

July 10 - August 17:  Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition in the Leonor R. Fuller Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia.

July 27-30:  Gallery 110 booth at the Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle.  

Shows all around the Sound

You can view my work in several venues this summer -- Bainbridge, Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma!  Here are the two shows that open in June:

June 29 - August 18:  21st Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition at the Tacoma Community College Gallery. This attractive building (Building 4) is in the southern part of the TCC Tacoma campus:  enter off S. 12th St., across from S. Whitman St., park in Lot G.  The gallery is open Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm.  If you live in or near Tacoma, it's a treat to see some of the best art by local artists.  

June 30 - August 10:  BIMA Spotlight, at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.  If you haven't seen this beautiful, modern museum (photo below), you owe it to yourself to take the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge and walk just up the hill from the ferry terminal to Winslow Way.  The museum is right there, at 550 Winslow Way E.  For these six weeks, the entire museum will feature pieces selected from 3400 submissions, including two of paintings in The Impossibility of Knowing series.  Open 10-5 every day;  admission is free.  Linger and have bite in the cafe, or walk down the street to the restaurants, wine bars, brew pubs, and shops along Winslow Way.