Rachel Brask
https://www.rachelbraskrainydays.art
Website: www.rachelbraskart.com
Instagram: instagram.com/rbraskstudio
Facebook: facebook.com/rachelbraskstudio
Email: [email protected]
Hashtags: #rachelsrainydays #rachelbraskart
https://www.rachelbraskrainydays.art
Website: www.rachelbraskart.com
Instagram: instagram.com/rbraskstudio
Facebook: facebook.com/rachelbraskstudio
Email: [email protected]
Hashtags: #rachelsrainydays #rachelbraskart
Imagine a new perspective on rainy days through Rachel Brask’s artwork
Sky Falling on Rainy Road Ahead, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 inches
The soul-baring nature of her art is one of the remarkable strengths of her practice." — Michael Rose, curator, arts writer, art historian
Ocean Rainstorm Rolling In, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 16x20 Inches
a willingness to alter her paintings and even see them be transformed beyond recognition is a key element of her creative journey.”
— Michael Rose, curator, arts writer, art historian
— Michael Rose, curator, arts writer, art historian
In the Pond in the Rain, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 16x20 Inches
RACHEL BRASK ARTIST STATEMENT:
While many see rainy days as gloomy, I see rain as necessary for new life, pause, and renewal. I paint rainy abstracted impressions of land, sky, sea, and seasons to show new perspectives on finding tranquility and beauty in dark and stormy times. I see how sheets of pouring raindrops distort scenes beyond, blending colors and shapes together to drip down glass. Colors seem more saturated in rain, and the storm interrupts everything.
After I create detailed pointillism landscapes, I use gravity, stand-oil, and a brush to wipe them out, leaving a flawed and uniquely unpredictable outcome, that I then reshape into something embracing imperfect beauty and calm. I take on the changes that come from working intensely on editing and blending the remaining drips and paint smudges, returning to the canvas every hour or two, over the course of days, to react and adjust to how the paint has shifted.
My process embraces the contrasting elements of attempting control while letting go. In today’s increasingly chaotic and uncertain world, I want a person to be able to look through my rainy day “windows” and find a peaceful, contemplative moment, to take space to breathe and reflect. Our experience in the storm deepens our experience of sunny days
While many see rainy days as gloomy, I see rain as necessary for new life, pause, and renewal. I paint rainy abstracted impressions of land, sky, sea, and seasons to show new perspectives on finding tranquility and beauty in dark and stormy times. I see how sheets of pouring raindrops distort scenes beyond, blending colors and shapes together to drip down glass. Colors seem more saturated in rain, and the storm interrupts everything.
After I create detailed pointillism landscapes, I use gravity, stand-oil, and a brush to wipe them out, leaving a flawed and uniquely unpredictable outcome, that I then reshape into something embracing imperfect beauty and calm. I take on the changes that come from working intensely on editing and blending the remaining drips and paint smudges, returning to the canvas every hour or two, over the course of days, to react and adjust to how the paint has shifted.
My process embraces the contrasting elements of attempting control while letting go. In today’s increasingly chaotic and uncertain world, I want a person to be able to look through my rainy day “windows” and find a peaceful, contemplative moment, to take space to breathe and reflect. Our experience in the storm deepens our experience of sunny days
Late Valley Sunset Rains, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
What started out as a single moment of inspiration has turned into an obsession. Brask has devoted the greater part of the last [few] years to making her rainy day paintings emulating the foggy, drippy and translucent surface of the window with a technique she developed using paint and stand oil.” -- Paula M., curator/artist
Early Lights in Rain, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 inches
Her work invites the viewer to see rain through her eyes, resulting in a joyous harmony of depth and color." Eric Auger, curator/artist
Pluvia Nocturna 06, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
Rachel Brask...explores the fluidity of paint by creating scintillating veils of thin color that cascade down her canvases…References to a world beyond are hinted at beyond the rainbow of hues that shimmer on the surface.
— Joan H.
— Joan H.
Rainy Moment 20 Rainy Autumn-Foliaged Mountain Sunset, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
Rainy Moment 13 Open Ocean Rain, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
Rainy Moment 18 Elysian Pond Rainy Reflections, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
Emerald Mountain Rain, oil on canvas, Rachel Brask, 30x40 Inches
