Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

A mystery awaits: this festival of blues, with touches of red, invites you to enter a different world, a new dimension "between the worlds."

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 23 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (framed)

Professionally framed and ready to hang: Enjoy it now in your home or office!

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A Word From Anne

This intriguing watercolor painting shows a mysterious abstract image of a landscape...that actually might be a seascape in another reality.

The deeper blue brushstrokes in the bottom half give a sense you're looking at the earth or maybe a body of water as the day ends and night comes on. The bottom is dark, with touches of red to reflect the sky in the painting's upper half, which has lighter strokes of blue and more white plus touches of red.

Together, the colors and the division into two halves give this abstract painting the appearance of a landscape or seascape, filled with motion and mysterious beauty. 

As soon as your gaze fixes on part of this painting, it's as if something shifts, and you can enter the mystery of deep blue becoming. 

What power in those deeps. What potential.

What will you do with such potent color and vibration? What do you wish for? What sparks within yourself when you consider the touches of red wheeling through the blue, ready to activate something wonderful?

If you need a way to tap into life's mystery and its "life force" power inside yourself, this painting can give you that sublime gift.

Let it lift you into a new level of awareness and creativity: bring these assets into your home or your office. Or bestow this beautiful, powerful painting as a gift to someone special. Let the power come forth!

Created With All Premium, Professional Grade Artist Materials

• 100% cotton watercolor paper: durability with beautiful natural grain
• Classic 140 pound weight paper is cold pressed for exquisite, even texture
• Acid free paper: painting retains its luster and vibrance and stands the test of time; it remains beautiful for centuries without conservation if stored and handled properly
• Highest quality watercolor paints: vibrant, super-saturated color
• The most finely ground watercolors in the world: colors have high intensity and purity
• Artist grade watercolors allow paint application all the way from delicate, nearly invisible transparency through deep, nearly opaque intensity

Museum-Quality Framing

• Custom framed: highest professional quality and attention to detail
• Light birchwood frame: subtle color and wood grain complement painting, put focus on color and brushwork
• Museum grade, archival white mat: preserves and highlights colorful painting
• Top quality glass: covers and protects painting 
  
• Professional grade framing hardware: screws securely anchor hardware into frame; framing wire is smooth to protect your hands and your walls
• Fully covered back: protects frame and painting, gives smooth, neat appearance
• Felt rounds on back at lower left and right: cushion painting after hanging and protect your walls

More Details: Provenance

Deep Mystery

• Created 2017
• Exhibited in artist's solo show, Implied Horizons: Watercolors By Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Five Seasons Family Sports Club, Northbrook, IL, Nov. 3 – Dec. 2, 2017
• Exhibited in solo show, Implied Horizons: Watercolors By Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Five Seasons Family Sports Club, Burr Ridge, IL, Dec. 7, 2018 – Jan. 5, 2019

Media Coverage

• “Watercolors to be displayed at sports club,” Cook County Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2018
• “Art Show,” Gazette Chicago, Dec. 2018
• “Art Exhibit by Anne Nordhaus-Bike,” Chicago Metromix, Dec. 2018
• “Implied Horizons,” Gazette Chicago, Dec. 2018
• “Anne Nordhaus-Bike, Implied Horizons,” The Visualist, Nov./Dec. 2018
• “Clearing Artist To Exhibit Watercolors,” Clear Ridge Reporter And Newshound, Nov. 21, 2018
• “Clearing Artist To Exhibit Watercolors,” Southwest News-Herald, Nov. 16, 2018
• “Art Show,” Gazette Chicago, July 2017
• “Northbrook’s Anne Nordhaus-Bike set to display art at Five Seasons,” The Northbrook Tower, Oct. 19, 2017
• “Watercolor Art Exhibit Opens at Five Seasons Northbrook on November 3rd,” Daily Herald, Oct. 19, 2017