ABSTRACTED RAINY MOMENTS SERIES – ARTIST STATEMENT

While many see rainy days as gloomy, I see rain as necessary for new life, pause, and renewal. I paint rainy impressions to show new perspectives on finding tranquility and beauty in stormy seasons. 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 different outcome, that I then reshape into something embracing imperfect beauty and tranquility. I take on the changes that come from working intensely on editing and blending the remaining drips and paint smudges. 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.

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[SOLD] ©Rachel Brask, Rainy Moment 09 (Deep Forest Rain). Oil on canvas, 40″x30″

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[SOLD] Rainy Sunrise Over Race Point Beach, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 24×30 inches

Autumn Rain and Fire, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30x40inches

Autumn Trio, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12x12inches each panel

[SOLD] Truro March Blizzard in Rain, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 24x30inches

Beach Dunes in Rain, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12×16 inches

Watching Sunset Over Provincetown in Rain, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12×16

Eastern Sunrise Rain at Cadillac Mountain Summit 1, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12x14inches

[SOLD] Palmett River Marsh in Rain, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 20×24 inches

Eastern Sunrise Rain at Cadillac Mountain Summit 2, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12x14inches

[SOLD] Rainy Moment 16 (Aurora Borealis in Rain), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

[SOLD] Rainy Sunset Over Maine Harbor, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask

[SOLD] Rainy Harbor Sea Tour, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 18×24 inches

[SOLD] ©Rachel Brask, Rainy Moment 11 (Misty Morning Mountain Rain). Oil on canvas, 40″x30″.

Rainy Day Dune Path, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 18×24 inches

[SOLD] Rainy Maine Rocky Shore, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask

[SOLD] Rainy Sunset at Herring Cove, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 20×24 inches

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Rainy Moment 22 (Cliff Waterfall in the Rain), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

Rainy Moment 21 (Rainy Rocky Landscape), by Rachel Brask, oil on canvas, 30×40 inches

Where Rain and Stormy Seas Meet Stormy Skies, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 24×30

Rainy Moment 18 (Elysian Pond Rainy Reflections), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

[SOLD] Rainy Moment 17 (Rainy Ocean Sunset), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

[SOLD] Rainy Northern Lights II, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12×16 inches

[SOLD] ©Rachel Brask, Rainy Moment 03 (Rain in Early Spring). Oil on canvas, 40″x30″. Frequent and abundant rain and warmer temperatures after the cold winter cause the first signs of subtle, light pastel colors of spring to begin to grow, inspiring this painting.

Rainy Sunset Over Maine Harbor, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 24x36inches

Rainy Moment 19 (Rainy Sunset Over Yonder Mountains), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

Deep Forest Rain III, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12×16 inches

Rained Out Beach Day, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 36×36 inches total

Eastern Sunrise Rain at Cadillac Mountain Summit 3, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 12x24inches

[SOLD] Rainy Blue Ridge Mountains (triptych), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask

Bar Harbor Foggy Rain, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 24x36inches

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Sun Rain Transition Study 1, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 18×24 inches

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Sun Rain Transition Study 2, oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 18×24 inches

Root Beer Mountain Rain, oil on canvas, by Rachel Brask, 30×40 inches

Rainy Moment 20 (Rainy Autumn Foliaged Mountain Sunset), oil on canvas by Rachel Brask, 30x40inches