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Opening Reception June 1st at Stephan Fine Arts In the Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage, Alaska

5:00 to 9:00 PM

Wine, hors d’oeuvres, music by Joe D’Entrone, 24 new oil paintings by Ed Hutchinson, and good company.

PTSD

I have often thought, throughout my life, about the tragedies that result when we send our young people into war. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disease) has been on my mind during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so I painted PTSD which I think speaks for itself. Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: PTSD
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 3′h x 3′w
Price: $ 1.255

Figurative Series

In this series, I paint landscapes as they would be viewed by an eagle or hawk looking down from 8,000 feet above sea level. Nuka Passage is along the northwest shore of the Gulf of Alaska just at the south end of Kenai Fjords National Park. It is an area of rugged, permanently ice capped mountains and pristine sea scapes.

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Nuka Passage
Medium: Oil paint, glitter, on canvas.
Size: 2′h x 2′w
Price: Sold. ($ 500) Resides in Private Collection

Topogragraphic Series

The Valley of 10,000 Smokes is located in Katmai National Park, Alaska. It is a valley left after the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history.

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Valley Of 10,000 Smokes
Medium: Oil Paint On Canvas
Size: 30″h x 40″w
Price: $ 1,040

Pyroclastic Series

What do I see in this painting? Mountain Man breaks off a cattail and will light it as a torch at his wedding. He literally and figuratively carries a torch for Mountain Woman. Another painting in this series called “Flame” portrays this wedding complete with burning cattail

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Wedding Preparations
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 4′h x 4′w
Price: $2,000

Figurative Series

Turnagain Arm

Captain Cook sought to find a “Northwest Passage” (waterway) around North America–to go from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. His ships tried many a fjord only to run into dead ends. They tried going up a waterway near Anchorage and had to turn back at the end of it so they named it Turnagain Arm. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, it is inhabited by one of the largest populations of Beluga whales–a small white whale weighing about 150 – 200 pounds.

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Turnagain Arm
Medium: Oil paint with glitter on canvas.
Size: 30″h x 24″w
Price: $ 625

Topographic Series

Wide Weave

I have been inspired by Alaska Native weavers to weave with paint, sometimes capturing the weave of a mood, other times dripping lines of paint down the canvas in weave patterns, and here making wide weave lines with a palette knife.

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Wide Weave
Medium: Oil paint on canvas.
Size: 2′h x 2′w
Price: $ 500

Weave Series

Mt Redoubt Blasts Off

In April 2008, Mt. Redoubt blasted off just 80 miles south west of Anchorage, shut down air traffic in Western United States for days, and dropped 2 inches of ash on parts of the Kenai Peninsula. I collected ash and incorporated it into oil paints to produce this series of paintings about the eruption.

Artist: Edward Whetstone Hutchinson
Title: Mt. Redoubt Blasts Off
Medium: Oil paint, volcanic ash, with glitter on canvas.
Size: 3′h x 5′w
Price: $ 1,875