Art galleries often trot out old favorites and sure-sellers for the holiday season. Childhood's End Gallery has a tendency to do that year-round. Fortunately, many of their favorites and best-sellers are also good art. But not always their best.

They've practically recycled the entirety of their recent Don Tiller show, which is not a bad thing. Tiller does some very interesting if somewhat sentimental and nostalgic landscapes. His paintings are like Grant Wood or Thomas Hart Benton revisited but more colorful. People who did not get a chance to see his recent show should stop by and see these paintings - undulating hills and furrows and trees and clouds in blindingly brilliant color.

For anyone who might want to give high-end decorative art for Christmas, there's no better place to show than Childhood's End. Now if we can only encourage them to bring back some artists whose work we haven't seen in a while like Shaw Osha and Marilyn Frasca and Ron Hinson. Or, if they want to keep showing Christopher Mathie, please show his newer abstract pieces.

Read Alec Clayton's full review of the Holiday Show at Childhood's End Gallery in the Weekly Volcano's Arts section.

CHILDHOOD'S END GALLERY, THROUGH DEC. 24, 10 A.M. TO 7 P.M. MONDAY-SATURDAY, 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M. SUNDAY, OPEN UNTIL 9 P.M. FRIDAY, 222 FOURTH AVE. W., OLYMPIA, 360.943.3724