Summer on the Snake River by Lisa McShane

September 4 — October 1, 2026 · Bainbridge Island & Park City

Golden Hour

Lolly Shera & Lisa McShane. With Erica Nordean, Brooke Borcherding and Parvin in the room.

Lisa McShane · Summer on the Snake River · oil on linen on panel · 36 × 48 in

The light

Seventeen works. One hour of the day.

Put the seventeen pictures side by side and their colours agree: sand, umber, linen, a cool slate under everything, and a near-black that is never quite black. That is the hour after the sun has dropped behind the ridge and before the water forgets it — the hour both painters keep going back to. This page is built from those seven colours and nothing else.

Roster artist · six new works

Lisa McShane

Lisa McShane paints the deep waters, rivers, forests, and land of the Pacific Northwest and the intermountain West. Her great-grandparents on both sides were settlers near the Columbia and Snake Rivers in eastern Washington, and she grew up hearing family stories about how the Columbia used to be. Her father was in the Air Force; her earliest drawings were of the roads and mountains she saw on road trips home to Connell. She began oil painting at twelve, when her mother enrolled her in Saturday lessons at Herr Ludwig's studio near Ramstein Air Base in Germany — and Saturdays are still dedicated to painting today.

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Invited artist · eight works · her first show with the gallery

Lolly Shera

Lolly Shera paints the Northwest at its quietest hours — Mt. Rainier under alpenglow, the Salish Sea at last light, cloud reflections at sea. Every work she brings to Golden Hour is oil on linen on panel, from a seven-by-eleven-inch study to a forty-by-fifty-inch Rainier.

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The walk

From morning light to dusk, one work at a time.

Last Light on the Salish Sea by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraLast Light on the Salish SeaOil on linen on panel · 12 × 16 in (H × W) · $1,000

Cloud Reflections at Sea by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraCloud Reflections at SeaOil on linen on panel · 7 × 11 in (H × W) · $550

Radiance by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraRadianceOil on linen on panel · 14 × 11 in (H × W) · $850

Of the Sea by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraOf the SeaOil on linen on panel · 24 × 24 in (H × W) · $3,000

Eventide II by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraEventide IIOil on linen on panel · 30 × 57 in (H × W) · $6,800

Twilight by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraTwilightOil on linen on panel · 16 × 19 in (H × W) · $1,500

Promise by Lolly Shera — Lolly SheraPromiseOil on linen on panel · 20 × 30 in (H × W) · $2,900

Deep Into the Canyon the River Moves by Lisa McShane — Lisa McShaneDeep Into the Canyon the River MovesOil on Panel · 40 × 30 in (H × W) · $5,250

The River's Own Constant Joy by Lisa McShane — Lisa McShaneThe River's Own Constant JoyOil on Linen on Panel · 24 × 60 in (H × W) · $7,100

Arrow by Lisa McShane — Lisa McShaneArrowOil on Linen on Wood Panel · 30 × 40 in (H × W) · $5,250

A Thousand Miles Away by Lisa McShane — Lisa McShaneA Thousand Miles AwayOil on Linen on Panel · 20 × 30 in (H × W) · $4,100

Also in the room

Three more presences.

Erica Nordean’s three ceramic horses stand among the paintings. Brooke Borcherding hangs three new acrylics, and Parvin’s The Golden Hour gives the show its second reading of the name.