When he was two years old, my son would point to our purple blossoming plum tree and tell me about the dragon there. “But its okay.” He’d reassure me. “He is our friend.”
Watercolor 18″ x 24″
Learning is the process of making connections both literally and figuratively. What muscles are to strength, dendrites are to learning. Dendrites connect synapses, a chemical process and manifestation of learning. A dendrite is almost always a chemical potential. Like muscles, dendrites need many of the same building blocks to grow; energy, sleep, practice, a safe environment, some challenge and encouragement. Some people have more dendrites and more experience, but for all, learning is always possible.
Watercolor 16″ x 12″
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A closer look and the world inside a garden unfolds dramatically.
Watercolor 12″ x 16″
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Currently all my prints will be ready to ship no later than November 24th, 2014. All orders will be shipped in 1-3 days with standard shipping included in the price. Please contact me directly at marika@marikareinke.com for other shipping options or if you need to ship internationally in which case there will be an additional charge.
Original Painting: $250
Personalized Limited Edition Print (of 25) : $50 What’s special about a limited edition print? Click on my Print Options page to find out.
An artist and gardener intuits plant intelligence . It is unsurprising that inside a blade of grass, there is an alien thinking world, unseen and unknowable. If one is unzipped and thoughts were see-able, what would emerge? Are humans capable of comprehending?
Pain is a jealous God. Initially, a lit match and easily blown out. No problem. Disrespected, it flares, setting everything precious on fire, wickedly insisting on surrender. Everything is colored by pain. Nothing will be the same.
Mirror mirror on the wall…
A Queen plots murder to be crowned the most beautiful in the land. Forget royalty, Beauty is the ultimate Power, and cannibalism is an acceptable price to pay for it.
Fire is elemental fuel, at once mesmerizing, fluid and ephemeral. A comfort on a cold night and feared when unconfined. So sits anger. Harnessed, it propels growth and creativity but left untended destroys with slow burning embers or explosive eruptions. A tended belly fire is a soothing wildness pressing on perfection and demanding emotional expansion.
2010: Bear in Sprinkle Park copyright Marika Reinke2011: Bear and Dragon copyright Marika Reinke
My friend wrote a children’s story, Bear in Ballard, based on the true story of a bear spotted on the streets of Ballard a few years ago. The story depicts the bear as it cavorts and explores major landmarks in the area like Cupcake Royale and the Locks. She flattered and intimidated me when she asked me to illustrate it. Though I had my doubts, I love this friend and admire her spirit and vision. I wanted to work with her so I agreed. I finished two illustrations. Bear and Dragon is an interpretation of an elementary school playground. Bear in Sprinkle Park takes place by the library being led by the moon and followed by a police dog.
Unfortunately, we didn’t finish this project. But the project taught me how to merge my style with story telling, a true challenge.
2003: Woman in Red, a Self-Portrait copyright Marika Reinke
A direct gaze distorts the truth as if it’s made of sand. To see differently expectations, photographs, mirrors, assumptions, categories, must be set aside. She emerged blind-sideways from the experiment and unwrapped a thousand other possible “me”s. Unpolished, but a strong catalyst and inspiration guiding me towards new artistic adventure and identity.
The first painting I proudly framed and hung on my living room wall, after I put the paint from photographs away.
Opposites are not linear, but circular. At the extreme of one sits its opposite, always in contact with one another in a dance, not isolation. If the opposite of love is fear then the opposite of suffering is inspiration. A garden personifies inspiration. It is creation, beauty, growth where once stood loss, suffering and death while carefully and lovingly tended. You could not have one without the other.
watercolor 9″ x 12″
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Currently all my prints will be ready to ship no later than November 24th, 2014. All orders will be shipped in 1-3 days with standard shipping included in the price. Please contact me directly at marika@marikareinke.com for other shipping options or if you need to ship internationally in which case there will be an additional charge.
Original Painting: $225
Personalized Limited Edition Print (of 25) : $40 What’s special about a limited edition print? Click on my Print Options
Personalized Limited Edition Print (of 25) : $65 
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