Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Change is coming. Warm air rich with moisture meets cooler land or water, and soon the air fills with tiny water droplets...it's mist, gathering in the atmosphere. Suddenly everything looks different, and anything could happen.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 27 x 14 1/4 inches (framed)

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

Exquisitely "float framed": unique framing creates shallow shadow box, "floats" painting to showcase entire work of art - including heavyweight paper's dramatic textured edges

Certified: All original paintings come with a certificate of authenticity

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A Word From Anne

Do you feel a sense of magic every time you see mist rising over a field or filling the air over a lake?

Do you imagine yourself in that hazy "world between worlds," hidden in a milky netherland where it seems as if you have special powers or the gift of seeing beyond everyday reality?

If you find yourself nodding "yes," then you will love having this intriguing blue and green watercolor landscape in your home or office.

This beautifully framed painting shows a cooling, semi-abstract image of a landscape on an overcast day, when water hangs in the air, perhaps after a rainstorm, and nature's colors appear more vibrant. This image also can be seen as a seascape, thanks to the bluish colors and sense of movement in the lower half. 

The bottom half of this painting is mostly green-blue, with blue-green colors as well, showing the earth or the sea a little stirred up but mostly restful as the weather changes. In several places, bits of pure pigment sit on the surface and create a grainy texture and tiny, intense pools of rich color. Mixed with bluish paint and swathes of white, they create an effect of being in the middle of a mist or a light rain. 

The top half of the painting shows a mostly white sky, with intense blue at the top edge to indicate rain clouds that are clearing away. At the horizon, the weather gives way and starts to clear, promising smoother sailing at sea - or a brighter day on land. This brighter light balances the painting and reminds us the Sun will come out again soon. When it does, we - and Nature - will be changed, cleansed and refreshed from the storm and the stillness that always, always follows.

You're in the middle of it all, and you can feel the water droplets on your skin and in your hair. While this fleeting mist remains, you're a magical creature suspended between earth and air (or water and air). You're at one with the elements and nature's alchemical powers in that potent period when warm and cool air mix, things are not as they seem, and mystery abounds before the Sun comes out to burn off the mist and take you back to the clear light of everyday reality.

Until it does, you can linger in a world of pure potential. Gather your visions for changes you wish for as the mist gathers itself. Live the magic before the light changes, the mist recedes, and sunshine lights your way to making dreams and visions real.

This painting is a perfect choice for anyone who loved blue and green watercolor paintings or who needs a reminder of how much we all need moments of magic. Things will be OK if we let ourselves dream...

Created With All Premium, Professional Grade Artist Materials

• 100% cotton watercolor paper: durability with beautiful natural grain
  
• Heavyweight 300 pound paper is cold pressed for exquisite, even surface texture - yet thick enough to remain rigid for float framing and to create dramatic deckled edges when torn by hand
• 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
• Float framed: this special framing technique "floats" the painting on top of the mat to show off the heavyweight paper's exquisite texture and the unique edges hand-torn by the artist
• Invisible spacers between mat and glass: spacers transform the frame into a shallow shadow box that lets the painting float, almost magically, above the mat without touching either the mat or the glass. Float framing gives you an exquisite, unique artwork that's both a painting and a low relief sculpture
• 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

Gathering Mist

• 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.
• Featured in group show, BNI Power Partners Business Expo, Five Seasons Sports Club, Burr Ridge, IL, Jan. 2018.
  
• 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