Anne Nordhaus-Bike Art

Bubbling with fun! This colorful painting turns horizon gazing into a carnival where red shapes seem to move before your eyes and could morph into anything at a moment's notice.

Original: Original watercolor painting

Signature: Signed at lower right by the artist

Size: 15 1/4 x 12 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 colorful watercolor has a playful quality, combining blue and red in a dynamic abstract landscape (or could it be a seascape, with strange red water surging up toward the sky)?

Round red shapes bubble about in the lower half.

At the top left is a large red area, like the Sun in a late afternoon sky, looking out over the blue of the sky and that round-ish red expanse you can see as either a landscape or a fully alive sea. 

How fun!

It's as if the earth has turned into a nature carnival: anything could happen, as the bright shapes seem to move around.

What if those red round parts turned into cherry lollipops? Or big gumballs? What if the big round magenta "Sun" at the top suddenly turned into the Big Top, and you find yourself standing in a tent, ready for an exciting circus show to start?

That's exactly why I called this painting Whimsy.

We all need to give ourselves up to life's daydreaming moments. Just whimsical pondering and "what if?"

Bring a bit of that spirit into your life. Let this painting help you think in new ways, whether at your home or office. (And save me a seat in the Big Top!)

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

Whimsy

• 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