Art notecards for sale /  by JW Harrington

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" /  by JW Harrington

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 /  by JW Harrington

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.