• Tranquility blue, pink, peach, yellow pastel watercolor in sunny kitchen, closeup view
  • Tranquility pastel horizon watercolor, angled view on aqua wall with plant and chair
  • Artist Anne Nordhaus-Bike at art talk for horizons watercolor show, next to April Morning painting
  • Colorful Horizons watercolor solo art exhibition, installation view 1
  • Three Colorful Horizons framed watercolor landscapes by Anne Nordhaus-Bike at BNI networking event
  • Tranquility pastel horizon watercolor, closeup of center section with pink, blue, yellow
  • Tranquility pastel horizon watercolor, closeup of lower section with pink, deep blue
  • Tranquility pastel horizon watercolor, closeup of upper section with warm pink, yellow
  • Top edge view detail image for birchwood frame corner, with view of hanging wire on back
  • Back view framed watercolor painting showing brown wrap, hanging wire with hardware
  • Back view, framed watercolor painting, detail top corner with brown paper, hanging wire, hardware
  • Angled back view, top corner, framed watercolor painting back-brown paper, hanging wire, hardware
  • Framed watercolor painting detail view of back lower corner with felt pad
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Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Tranquility

Tranquility

$1,350.00 USD
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Ahhhhh. This colorful painting gives you an instant spa treatment: just cast your gaze upon it and feel yourself relax.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 17 x 14 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

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

A Word From Anne

What is it about pastel colors?

They're so simple and restrained, but they're filled with power.

It's not that "rev you up," high octane power of primary colors. Instead, it's gentle...which makes it all the more potent.

Pastels walk quietly into your consciousness, calmly overruling stress by redirecting energy and emotions toward rest and relaxation. That's their superpower.

I called this colorful watercolor Tranquility to celebrate that fact and offer a way out of stress and into pleasant vistas of sunset beauty and calm.

It's an unusual type of landscape or seascape painting: the pastel colors are so subtle, they blend and blur the boundaries so the horizon line could be anywhere. Perhaps it's above the blue at the bottom, making this a seascape, with the pink indicating the sky where dawn is about to break over the water.

Or it may be above the pink, with the yellow tones at the top showing sunlight later in the day.

Either way, it's a soothing, tranquil watercolor that can bring you peacefulness and  comfort. Treat yourself now to this visual spa treatment.

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

Tranquility

  • 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

 

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