Friday, April 4, 2014
‘The Rugged Coast’
Max Hayslette By RICHARD Walker Kitsap Week
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s an artist, Max Hayslette’s move from one style to another — abstract to impressionist to postimpressionist — is as smooth as his look: black blazer, dark-rimmed circular glasses, and Bombay Sapphire martini (with a twist, a la Ian Fleming). He’s internationally known for his mesmerizing landscapes of Tuscany, the French countryside, the Chateaux region, rivieras, and Rural America. His work is represented in more than 350 private, corporate and public collections. His paintings have been available as custom art through Ethan Allen Interiors, and his dreamy landscapes are widely available as posters. West Virginia University, in his native state, houses
features more than 30 the Max Hayslette recent works. Viewers Archives Collection at its will see Hayslette’s Morgantown campus. take — he calls each And still, approachpainting “an assemblage ing 85 years of age, the of parts and forms, light Kingston artist continues and shadow”— on some to explore and innovate. familiar sites, among them On May 3, an exhibit of a Point No Point lighthouse, new series of Northwest Kingston’s Appletree scenes by Hayslette Cove, Mount Rainier, will be unveiled The Brothers, at Almost Rialto Beach, Shi Candid Frame Cover Shi Beach. & Fine Arts, Story With each piece 10978 Highway he paints, Hayslette 104, Suite 109, starts by setting the Kingston. The scene, modifying and photo studio, frame adding or deleting eleshop and fine arts gallery ments “to improve the is open Tuesday through story telling,” he once Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 6 wrote. He then makes an p.m., and Sunday from 10 enlarged full-size guide, a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 360paints a watercolor study, 297-1347. “He’s best known for his then does an acrylic underpainting followed by scenics, his landscapes, the oil phase. his technical abstracts,” “As is my practice in all Almost Candid owner Johnny Walker said. “This of my paintings, I choose a subject — sometimes is his first endeavor on more than one — study Pacific Northwest landit or them well, and then scapes. This is new for us mentally disassemble the and, quite frankly, for the parts, mixing and reasPacific Northwest. “He’s done a lot of world sembling them into a new image with a new spirit, travel, studying and painting and getting inspiration which is my own,” he said in an earlier interview for the works he’s most with the North Kitsap known for … He’s lived Herald. in the Pacific Northwest In an article he since 1962. This is a great authored for the June/July time for him to [artistical2003 International Artist ly] visit his community.” magazine, Hayslette wrote The exhibit is called that he regards himself “The Rugged Coast” and
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“5:25 to Kingston” by Max Hayslette. The originally has been sold, but the image is available as a print. On the cover: “Afternoon Picnic.” Johnny Walker / Contributed He wrote, “As an artist whose published works reach a wide audience, I feel it is my duty to ensure that each image conveys sone small message of
as a poet with a paintbox “whose mission is to show people the deeper sensibilities of nature — the things that tend to go unnoticed.”
Earth’s subtleties. It has been my observation that many people go through their lives with only surface awareness of the See HAYSLETTE, Page 8
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