Cloud Songs
Don Scott Macdonald
Jeffrey Beauchamp
August 23rd — October 4th
540 Ramona Street
Palo Alto, CA
[Palo Alto, CA] Pamela Walsh Gallery is pleased to present Cloud Songs, a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Don Scott Macdonald and Jeffrey Beauchamp. Opening August 23, 2025, with a reception from 5–7 pm and an artist talk at 6 pm, the exhibition will run through October 4, 2025.
Cloud Songs brings together two artists attuned to both sight and sound, whose lyrical interpretations of landscape evoke an emotional resonance akin to music. These are not literal renderings of place, but imaginative terrains shaped by color, light, memory, and rhythm. Whether expansive or playful, moody or bright, the works reflect a shared impulse to translate nature through the expressive language of painting - where clouds, color and light moves like notes of music.
Don Scott Macdonald, returning for his third exhibition with the gallery, draws on the vast horizons and dramatic skyscapes of Colorado to create imagined landscapes that are expansive, moody, and deeply atmospheric. In these newest works, Macdonald pushes further into his search for serenity in a chaotic world, drawing on his lifelong relationship with music to craft immersive compositions with a nuanced, sonic quality.
Jeffrey Beauchamp, in his gallery debut, brings the lush terrain and coastal light of Marin County into play, blending realism with imagination in expressive, improvisational gestures. A highly skilled realist, Beauchamp merges traditional representation with bursts of unexpected color and surreal forms - resulting in compositions that are imaginative, enigmatic, and rich with layered meaning.
Together, Macdonald and Beauchamp offer viewers a journey through shifting skies and emotional atmospheres—a duet of artistic voices that reveals how landscape can become both music and mirror.
Don Scott Macdonald is a California native now based in Colorado, known for his luminous, soft-focus landscapes that merge traditional oil painting techniques with a contemporary sensitivity to atmosphere, mood, and scale. He holds a BFA in Painting from California State University, Chico, and studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. McDonald’s meticulous use of the sfumato technique - often building up 15 to 30 layers of oil paint - results in works that feel both serene and expansive. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts, and his work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., including solo exhibitions at Pamela Walsh Gallery and Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York. His paintings are held in notable corporate and private collections, including The Ritz-Carlton, AAA, the Bank of Marin, and the estates of David Hockney, Chrissie Hynde, and Carrie Fisher.
Jeffrey Beauchamp is a painter based in Marin County, California, whose work blurs the line between observation and invention, drawing on a deep connection to music, color, and narrative to create richly expressive compositions. Trained in both visual art and sound, he studied at Clark University in Massachusetts and earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Beauchamp has been represented by several prestigious galleries and has exhibited widely across the West Coast. He is a two-time SECA Award nominee at SFMOMA and has shown work at the Triton Museum of Art, as well as the Sonoma Valley and Napa Valley Museums.
Pamela Walsh Gallery, founded in 2019, is housed in a historic 1929 Birge Clark–designed building in downtown Palo Alto. The gallery represents a diverse roster of contemporary artists as well as the Nathan Oliveira Estate. A member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, Pamela Walsh serves on its Board of Directors and is committed to supporting artists who bring thoughtfulness, technical mastery, and emotional clarity to their work.
Cloud Songs will be on view at Pamela Walsh Gallery, 540 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. For more information, visit www.pamelawalshgallery.com or contact info@pamelawalshgallery.com.
