Alana R. Bowles

A little background - 

 

As of August 2015, I was accepted as an Apprentice Painter under, award-winning landscape artist, Brian Mahieu. The following article was borrowed from the St. Louis World Aquarium's page, as it gives a great to-the-point description of just what we were doing. It was huge undertaking, but it has easily been one of the best experiences I've had in my career as an artist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pacific Northwest triptych (each panel 12’x12′) by Brian Mahieu

 

Brian Mahieu, award-winning landscape painter, has been commissioned to do a series of paintings that depict ecosystems from an impressionist standpoint representing North American Habitats with a Mississippi River Focus, Amazonian Ecosystems and the Pacific Northwest Estuarine Environment as a series of Triptychs that are each 36 feet long and 12 feet high (each panel being 12’x12’).  An additional interactive mural series called Coral Reef Dreaming will be 6 – 9’ long and 12’ tall panels that will allow the visitor to pass the murals in a triangle configuration which will give the sense of swimming through the coral reef.  A 100’ long Panoramawill follow the journey of water from the mountaintops to the sea. Other walls will be painted with shapes and colors that further set the tone for areas throughout the new World Aquarium.

 

As of June 2016, I am officially done with my Apprenticeship and the Murals are to be placed in their new home in the summer of 2017.

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Below are some of the in-progress photographs of the two large triptychs I had the opportunity to assist with.