Artist David A. Haughton will tell you he doesn’t paint rocks, waves, and trees so much as emotions like fear, hope, and longing.

This will come viscerally into view when his new show of West Coast landscapes opens at the Visual Space Gallery (3352 Dunbar Street) this Thursday night (November 24). Images of dark, crashing waves somehow speak to the terror of death, while luminous purple, orange, and yellow sunsets speak to the hope that carries us through. The show, called Fear, Hope and Longing III: Paintings of the Pacific Northwest, runs till December 7.