Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Spring's gentleness, captured in a watercolor painting. New life begins quietly, on a pastel morning filled with hope and promise.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 27 1/4 x 12 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

Shipping: Original artwork ships free in continental U.S.!

A Word From Anne

Have you ever wished you could linger in a spring morning, when dawn comes and the world wakes up quietly?

Now you can.

This pink and pale green watercolor painting presents an impressionist landscape, seen through a pastel lens.

It's a gentle combination of pastel pink and green, and it evokes the earth at this special time of year. There's the green on the bottom half, with the early morning sky pale pink at the upper half.

Together they form a landscape filled with the subtle beauty of watercolor painting and the unique pleasures of early spring.

It's an enchanting landscape that will help you create tranquility in your life and your home (or home office). Travel instantly to a peaceful spring morning, drink in its beauty and encouragement.

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

Spring Morning

• 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