Category: Collection: the Natural World

A Healing Place 2

“A Healing Place 2” (c) Marika Reinke

Description

A healing place in not a simple beautiful place. It is complicated with compact meaning. The tumult of injury, lingering pain, peace and healing. A place of innocence, a place before the world completely changed. A place to return and make sense, to pick up this life and re-puzzle it, but maybe…not… solve… it. A small hope to fit a little better. A place to relearn to love oneself as broken and complete simultaneously. A place of redefined beauty and ever-altered perspective.

Watercolor 24″ x 18″

Story

This painting was a commission for a client who deeply loves and connects with Arches, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. She deals with chronic pain with a cheerful disposition and laughter. These parks were the last long vacation she had before she discovered the root of her long term pain, which has since not been resolved. These red, red, walls are packed with meaning.

And in hanging this on her wall, I hope it brings her peace and my hope of some alleviated pain.

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A Healing Place

A Healing Place (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Story

Go back to the place, before pain, before the known and learned. To time travel to that feeling and heal there, in the healing place.

Watercolor 12″ x 9″

This is a small painting I did for a client of her Healing Place. The final version will be 24″ x 18″.

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This painting will be available to buy at Art in the Park in South Lake Union tomorrow May 7th, 2015 from 11-6. $135 add $35 with frame.

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Night Descending

Night Descending (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Story

Night descends like waves; a silent, soothing blanket. The soft wind-kiss of the world tucking in.

Watercolor 6″ x 4″

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This painting will be available to buy at Art in the Park in South Lake Union tomorrow May 7th, 2015 from 11-6 with a frame. $65

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Costa Rica Heat

Costa Rica Heat (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Story

Closed eyes in the tropical heat see colors that transform. Surrounded, you must wear them as they alter your perspective.

Watercolor 12″ x 9″

In The News

This painting was featured by the Northwest Art Alliance in May 2015.

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Costa Rica Heat from Marika Reinke
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Limited Edition Print $45 – takes up to a week to ship. I will order and customize in silver, gold and iridescent paint.
Pack of 10 5″ x 7″ Art Cards: $35 – takes up to 2 weeks to order and ship

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seaprints

seaprints (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Story

The sea is a literary being. It’s waves finger the sand with hieroglyphs and symbols leaving a puzzle of stories. We have slight moments to code-cipher that which we can’t know with any sense but the heart.

Watercolor 10″ x 7″

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A Magic Tree

A Magic Tree (C) Marika Reinke 2015

A tree and climber tend to each other while conjuring private magic.

One offers height, an ever changing maze, adventure, and endless possibility of another world. The other lays hope before her, curiosity and this secret; to understand what lays in her own hands. With each strong grasp and successful push she learns she is capable, again, again, and more.

In a tree’s magic cradle.

Watercolor 24″ x 18″

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Life Begins at Sea

Life Begins at Sea (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Did you know that a baby sea turtle isn’t much bigger than a ping pong? And they are dark, almost black. From afar, they could be wet bark and then they move. Amazing. As they grow they stretch that layer thin and the green reveals itself.

Seeing one is witnessing a breathing miracle. The one in Mexico was deadly persistent in its pursuit of the sea. A wondrous role model. Sadly, it didn’t make it. There were many factors against the poor thing, including the crowd of tourists, the daylight, the gentle-ish yet inconsistent surf and the pelicans circling overhead. The survival rate of a baby turtle is about 1% and humans contact lower these chances more. Yes, we can kill them with our love.

It did not escape my daughter, Dana, that this was a and uncommon and momentous event. She drew the experience and then steadily persisted that I paint her drawing.

Dana’s drawing inspired by a baby sea turtle sighting in Mexico

I’m grateful for sea turtle markings which are like an unique topographical map, and gave me some artistic freedom. Dana wanted a golden head. So gold she had it and though I was challenged by it, I’m thankful to not have to map that artistic decision.

Although I’m an abstract and illustrative artist sometimes I find myself struggling with the seen and seek permission to break through the literal. Why do I need permission? Why do I feel like my painting must look like what is? That makes me laugh. I insist there is much we don’t see. I’m very interested in making the invisible, visible. And yet, I struggle. It is a human bind.

Every choice is very deliberate in art making, even when it seems arbitrary. This turtle tested the balance between symbols, color, memory, relationships and art. Because in part, it had to be a turtle as you and I know it while more fantastic to satisfy my child and the child in all of us.

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February 27, 2015

A Light Embraced

This painting is inspired by a friendship and her vision. To know her, is to know someone embedded in a journey with peace, not just of her own but to those most suffering. And in her journey, her deep strength unseen, her soothing calm beneath the surface. She carefully tends to herself as she rushes to tend yours. Her ability to do this is awe-inspiring.

January 26, 2015

Break Through

Break Through (c) Marika Reinke 2015

Growth emerges in surprising places. A bloom can crack concrete or fire. The rigid is lost as life flexes and expands; an articulate chaos, inscrutable design, unstoppable change.

Watercolor 8″ x 5″

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October 28, 2014

2004: Inside Green 2

Inside Green 2 copyright Marika Reinke

A closer look and the world inside a garden unfolds dramatically.

Watercolor 12″ x 16″

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Original Painting: $250

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