Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Cool and restful, in a gentle rain. This tranquil painting lets you wander outside in the raindrops, without ever getting wet.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 21 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (framed)

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

Certified: All original paintings come with a certificate of authenticity

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A Word From Anne

This watercolor painting captures springtime in the rain as the sky opens to release water to the waiting earth (or the welcoming sea).

The bottom half shows large, colorful strokes of leaf green with yellow highlights,  that peculiar shade that spells "spring" and suggests the earth during a gentle rain or on a cloudy day.

The upper half shows quietly bright blue tones, applied over white watercolor paper to let the white show through, indicating clouds and a misty sky.

In the center, above the horizon, sits a bold blue stroke, as if a large rain cloud hangs over the earth, ready to send forth showers.

This tranquil image takes your directly to your personal springtime. Step inside the blue and green, imagine the rain on your skin and hair, and revel in an abstract landscape that cools you down and brings you a restful sensation.

Best of all, you can have these pleasures at any moment, just by letting yourself enter the colors and picture yourself as a child, dancing in the rain.

Display this painting in your home for an instant spring break or hang it in your office for a mini mindfulness vacation. Wherever you place it, you'll never get wet, just happy and calm and relaxed.

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

Opening Sky

• 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