Amity at Schmidt Farm

Acrylic on clayboard panel, framed 18" x 24"

Portrait of Amity soil series (an Argiaquic Xeric Argialbolls) in research field of Oregon State University's Schmidt Farm, Lewisburg, Oregon. Albic (light-toned) horizon is subtle in this profile.

© 2010 Jay Stratton Noller

Installations at Allison Inn & Spa, Newberg, Oregon

Permanently installed my latest artworks in the new Oregon wine country luxury hotel -- The Allison Inn & Spa. These were painted using pigments from the soils excavated for the hotel construction. One is a quintych portraying the cumulation of Missoula Flood sediments and soil development (named Slackwater Terroir)(pictured above) and the other gives the impression of what glacial Lake Allison looked like at the hotel site during one of the floods (Glacial Meltwater).

Nearly all of my publications of the past several years each have an accompanying painting. I now find my advancement in science walks hand-in-hand with my art. So, these paintings have two scientific journal papers as accompaniment.

Slackwater Terroir

Quintych. 10 feet by 16 feet. Self-made soil paints, with minor manufactured acrylic paint in upper panel areas, on concrete panels, enclosed with site-aged oxidized, welded carbon steel frames and carbon steel mounts and underframe structure. 36-1/2" by 120-1/2" each for full dimension of 10 x 16 feet. Painting face is set 5" from two-foot-thick untreated concrete wall.

Collection of Springbrook Properties and permanently installed in the Allison Inn & Spa, Newberg, Oregon.

Soil minerals (pigments) gathered from the soil excavated for the Allison Inn & Spa, including the Amity, Jory, Nekia and Woodburn Soil Series and underlying saprolite.


Official Soil Series Descriptions
Amity
Jory
Nekia
Woodburn

(c) 2009 Jay Noller

Glacial Meltwater

Painting. 49" by 145". Self-made soil paints, with manufactured acrylic paint patinae, on concrete panel, enclosed with stainless-steel frame and carbon steel mount and underframe structure. Painting face is set 3" from two-foot-thick untreated concrete wall.

Collection of Springbrook Properties and permanently installed in the Allison Inn & Spa, Newberg, Oregon.

Soil minerals (pigments) gathered from the soil excavated for the Allison Inn & Spa, including the Amity and Woodburn Soil Series (Willamette Silts deposited from glacial Lake Allison).


Official Soil Series Descriptions
Amity
Woodburn

(c) 2009 Jay Noller

Baker Creek Gley

Acrylic and Wapato soil on clayed panel
18" by 24"

Portrait of a profile of the Wapato soil series (Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) amongst the scroll bars and sloughs of the mighty Willamette River, Benton County, Oregon.


Official series description

(c) 2009 Jay Noller