Stephen MacFarlane

Mixed Media & Oil Painter · Pacific Northwest

Available at JG Art Gallery + Events™

JG Art Gallery + Events™ · Bainbridge Island, WA · Park City, UT · jgartgallery.com

The Artist

Stephen MacFarlane works in oil on canvas and mixed media on paper — 8 works at JG. The price point is deliberate rather than limiting: these are paintings made at a scale and in a mode that the artist has chosen rather than constrained to. The works are not small ambitions; they are specific intentions executed with precision.

His mixed media works on paper layer paint with other materials in a practice that uses the paper surface as both ground and participant — the paper is not simply a support but an element in the final image, its texture and transparency visible through the painted passages above it.

The Work

The oil paintings occupy a more traditional territory but bring the same material intelligence to bear on the conventional medium. MacFarlane's oils are not generic Pacific Northwest landscapes; they have a specific formal character that distinguishes them from the broadly competent landscape painting the region produces in abundance.

At the works are the most genuinely accessible serious paintings in the JG program — the price that allows a first-time collector to bring home something made with real conviction by an artist working at the top of a modest scale.

Medium

Mixed Media on Paper
Oil on Canvas
Mixed Media on Canvas

Works at JG

8 works

Gallery

JG Art Gallery, Bainbridge Island

Collections

Private collections nationally