"Above all, we're happy" 8x10" / 9.5x11.5"in Framed

Watercolor Original Painting

Seascape from collection for Enormous Tiny Art Show at Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth NH.

Available at Nahcotta Gallery / Portsmouth NH (shop online).

Images are slightly blurred for copyright protection purposes.

• DETAILS
• MATERIALS
• INSPIRATION
• SHIPPING

• 1. MATERIALS : Watercolor on museum quality watercolor paper.
     Mounted and Framed in White-washed Wood Floater Frame (beautifully showing the wood grain), ready to hang.
  2. SIZE:Paper/Panel: 8x10"in, Final Size: approximately 9.5.x11.5"in.
  3. BACK: Signed with full name.
• 1. My watercolor paintings are painted on either Fabriano or Arches or any art archival museum quality art papers, 140lb or 300lb. I use artist quality watercolors by W&N or Holbein or Graham or archival mixed media. 
     
     IMPORTANT: Every monitor displays color differently. If you need more details + photos before making a purchase just email me.
     
• 1. INSPIRATION.
     "Newlands" series are my response to living in New England and loving it with a rapid pulse and full heart. 
     Through watercolor, I explore wet lands, rivers, mudflats, marshes and most importantly — the Mother Ocean. 
     Here, I am documenting both, the sea, land and watercolor itself.⠀
     All this while writing nonsense like "in the mids of cataract—a virgin sight". That's about a dark cloud, you know. I 'm not even sure if it makes any sense in English.
     
     But, daily, either in pictures or watercolors, I see a shape worth aknowledging. The curve of the ocean, lace of the wave, sun that winks. And I get blined, like a happy dog looking at rays on a cold New England afternoon.
     
     
  2. There are never any man-made objects in my art. It was an intuitive choice and became intentional. No boats, no street lights, no face.⠀ 
     What I'm after is the solitude of Nature.
     Nature like a big archaic archetypal Ancestor.⠀
     Like an ever-present Absolute Great Mother.⠀
     Wide, quiet and heavy with importance and potency.
     
     
     And while painting, I write nonsense poems.
     "I hope that heaven is
     Sumer in Maine
     And angel wings are waves
     Swooshing my sins
     Away away."
     — Marta 
• 1. Nahcotta: 
     Shipping from Nahcotta Gallery.
     Nahcotta Gallery opened its doors in the bucolic, bustling city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire in May of 2000. Deb Thompson, the gallery's owner, wanted to create a space like Nahcotta since she was a young girl, standing amid a small but beautiful boutique during a shopping venture with her family. During an adventuresome cross-country trip many years later, she made the bold decision to relocate from Boston, Massachusetts and open a gallery/boutique in Portsmouth, a city renowned for its rich cultural history, captivating waterfront views, and vibrant, progressive community.
     
     Through the years, Nahcotta has become a mainstay in the Portsmouth community and beyond, providing a space for original, contemporary art from artists all over the world, alongside modern, innovative, well-designed gifts, available both in the Congress Street shop and online.
     
     

     110 Congress Street
     Portsmouth, NH 03801

     Monday: 10-5
     Wednesday: 10-5
     Thursday - Saturday: 10-6
     Sunday 11–5
     closed on Tuesdays

     CONTACT

     603-433-1705
     info@nahcotta.com