Ladd Bjorneby, Artist
Two of my paintings were in museum shows in the spring and summer of 2024. Tetons at Dawn was chosen for the Spokane Watercolor Society’s national show at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, April 5 to May 5. Full Circle: Larch in Autumn Color was chosen for the second Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition at the Jundt Museum on the campus of Gonzaga University. The exhibition will be open until August 24. I’m honored to be included again as I had a painting in the first Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art Exhibition several years ago and another in last year’s Spokane Watercolor Society show.
Full Circle, Oil on Panel
Tetons at Dawn, Watercolor on Paper
The watercolor of a kingfisher is one I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Finally this spring I watched a kingfisher and took good reference photos for this painting. It was shown in the Montana Watercolor Society’s annual exhibition, Watermedia 2023, in Bigfork, Montana this fall.
Prints are available at Avenue West Gallery.
This painting of a Sandhill Crane is painted from Ladd’s photos taken at the Saltese Flats. It has been chosen to show at the Spokane Watercolor Society’s spring show in 2023.
After a fall visit to the Quinault Rainforest in western Washington, Ladd painted this watercolor of the lush vegetation and crystalline water. It has been purchased and has gone to its new home.
Ladd
In the fall of 2019 I was able to spend several days in the Tetons, with the aspens still in fall color and snow falling on the peaks. It was a memorable time, to say the least, and I was taking photos with my camera and phone and iPad. This watercolor was the first painting I did after returning to my studio, and has been my most popular print. I hoped to capture the amazing architecture of these mountains, and the warmth of the early October woods at their base.
This is available as a full-size print, a 5×7 small print and a greeting card at Avenue West Gallery.
One of my favorite places to hike is the Saltese Uplands Conservation Area. It’s a hill with wide open views of sunny hillsides, hawthorn and golden grass. A glance to the south takes your eye up into the forested mountains. This painting is inspired by a summer evening, the shadows growing long and everything a bit golden in the setting sun.
Andrew Saltese (spelled Seltice in Idaho) was one of the last Coeur d’Alene chiefs in the area and lived below these hills. The former Saltese Lake, drained but now a wetland under restoration by the county, stretches out at the base of the hills.
Fine art prints of this painting are for sale. They are 9×12, the same size as the original, generously mounted and matted to 16×20.