🍃 Commission for Dept of Conservation ( DOC) Thames. 🐌
100cm x 80cm~ Acrylic ink & acrylic
🐋 While the original painting will hang in the Thames / Coromandel Peninsula Doc office, the image of it will be used as a peep board / hole in the head board for promotion & events to raise awareness of our native forest but predominantly the Kauri tree & the effects of kauri dieback disease on this mighty tree.
The brief was to include Kauri, Tohora ( whale) , Ruru (owl) , Kereru ( wood pigeon) , giant weta & giant snail. The words read:
“Just as kauri entwine with others to protect the health of the forest, we work together to protect our kauri lands for future generations.
He waka eke noa – We are all in this together”
( please feel free to google the relationship and story between the Kauri & Tohora its beautiful )
🍕Okay, it’s official! ☀️ I’m hosting an art retreat in Montelparo Central Italy! 🇮🇹💃🏻 at the Luxury Boutique Hotel Leone & Retreat Centre- (3-10th October 2025).
🎨Creativity & Connection ✨
✈️I would love you to come & join me for a magical week of combining creativity and fun and building connections in this beautiful hilltop setting with the Adriatic Sea on one side, and the mountains on the other. Just Stunning! Imagine immersing yourself in creativity, experiencing the local area- food, wine & culture, and forming lifelong friendship with like-minded souls.
☀️Absolutely, no experience necessary with the style of art. I’ll be guiding you through.
💐 I’m keeping it small, so you won’t be lost in a large group. -7 nights in a luxury boutique hotel Includes: -4 days creativity ( some off site) -2 days exploring the local area, visiting nearby towns, beach, experiencing the people & what they have to offer. -You are more than welcome to bring a friend, partner or family member and they can stay on site and not necessarily do any art.👍
➡️ Included in the price is:
– all tuition fees
-7 nights accommodation in luxury air-conditioned, en-suite rooms with: –
-luxury bedding
-high quality, 100% natural, Italian toiletries: shampoo, shower gel, body lotion and hand gel
-daily servicing of the rooms
-mid-week linen and towel change
-100% cotton waffle robes
-All meals including breakfast, buffet lunch and a choice of up to 4 courses from our daily changing gourmet evening menu
-A ‘pizza-giro’ evening at a local trattoria within a few minutes walk of the hotel
-Delicious local wine with lunch and evening meal
-Private group transfers to and from either Ancona airport or Pedaso (station or bus stop)
-4 days painting tuition including demonstrations and one-to-one advice and guidance
-up to 2 days’ excursions to specially selected stunning locations
-Private transfers to and from painting locations
-Guided orientation walking tour of the medieval hill-top town of Montelparo on day of arrival
-Experience the community and culture on a “Taste of Le Marche” full day experience visiting three local, family run, artisanal food & wine producers with a tour and tasting at each
-One Free day with the option to take an excursion to the beautiful town of Ascoli Piceno, a Renaissance town full of history as well as fabulous boutique shops, charming cafes and one of Italy’s most beautiful piazzas
-Unlimited use of air-conditioned studio
-full-time staff on-site including concierge service
🤗 There is an initial 500 Euro deposit to secure your spot, then full payment is not due until August 2025. – 19 MONTHS to plan & save! 💰
Any questions? Just ask away 😎
☀️I’m so excited!! It’s going to be AMAZING!! ✈️ 🧳 🎨🛍️
here is the link to get all the info & to book ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Sometimes, even when I am not on a roll, when I am not in the flow, and when I am not painting every minute that I can, I just come in here and hang out because this is a part of me & it makes me feel good.
Sometimes I am tidying and organising, and sometimes I just sit and stare out the window and be with whatever I am that that day.
This is my sacred space, my creative space & my public space. This space belongs to me and no one else, and if I want to be completely alone, I just shut and lock the door and pull the curtains and .. Here I Am.
Thanks for joining me occasionally in here, & appreciating this with me. I take nothing for granted, everyday in here is a total blessing. 💫 Have a beautiful week everyone 💜
Pearls are symbolic of wisdom gained through experience. The gems are believed to offer protection, as well as attract good luck and wealth. They are well-known for their calming effects. Pearls have a way of bringing balance to your karma.
This is one of my latest pieces, continuing my ocean, reef them.
I have just completed this Paua (abalone) painting. Capturing those shells is very challenging, I have painted Paua once before and it took a whole day to get it right. And you have to get it right, it’s a very unforgiving subject. 😎 The light, the colours, the blending… a test of my patience & determination 😆 I
On a roll! continuing my love affair with Ocean / Reef/ Sea themes. I have 2 more completed & sold in the last 3 weeks. Revisiting this ‘older’ style (last time I painted like this was 2017 for the huge commercial stairwell installation ) has been so refreshing. Painting with new perspective, fresh eyes, and a deeper love for my process & my creative journey. Patience & discernment are my biggest learning curves over the last few years, just because my inspo, concept & flow is at a hundred miles an hour, does not mean my process has to be as well. Taking my time with deep consideration.
More on the Paua piece in another dedicated post soon.
Stabicraft approached me a few weeks ago, and asked if they could use my artwork , ‘Seabed’, to wrap one of their boats for the NZ Boatshow. This is the result doesn’t it look amazing! The boat sold within half an hour of the show opening, the new owners loved the art! West Coast Boat Wraps did an amazing job!
Here is my latest painting. I got inspired after a boat company licensed my seabed image for a boat wrap ( will post separately on that) and I felt excited to paint something in that theme & style again. The entire painting (100cm x 75cm) took less than a week, it all came together with an ease & flow of this style that I haven’t tapped into in years. I used acrylics & acrylic inks. A most enjoyable refreshing experience!
Would you like a bespoke artwork that is unique to you, your Soul Expression- in a Channeled Painting?
I am now offering “Your Soul Expression” commissions.
The Journey Begins– After connecting with you, and talking, this may require several conversations, I gather some essential info/ elements that will be included in your personalised artwork. I then, sit with this for a bit & start to get a feeling for a concept… I will then, intuitively create your piece over a few weeks. I combine your own energy with what I am led to create as I paint ‘in the moment’.
This can include, marks, symbols, faces, nature, animals, stars, planets and more, it’s limitless.
Examples of things you may like to include… Up to 3 favourite colours that speak to your soul Birds, nature , ocean, or something that is important to you/your history/ your story…
The Magic– The fewer ‘things/info ‘ I have the better I can be free without limitation to tap into that place where the visions / knowings come easily & clearly.
You receive– Your bespoke artwork on a canvas, stretched over a wooden frame, wired, ready to hang. It is signed by me, and dated on the back…. Also…
My gift to you– you will also receive your choice of Guidance Cards (either English or Te Reo Māori) or, an A3 photocard print of your choice of my images.
I would be honoured to connect with you, and to start the journey of your soul expression in an art form.
Please either message me using the contact button with any queries & I would love to chat with you about the next steps…. or go here to my online shop for more info…
“In April 2020, after 11 years of pretty much painting full-time five days a week & creating a large online presence, creating guidance cards, holding regular art workshops & retreats , & building a successful career out of my art, I decided, after feeling overwhelmed & burnt out, to take an extended period of time off and paint soley and only for me.(as opposed to painting to sell). I had no idea how long this would last and I didn’t retreat completely, I still posted my art online but it was merely to share my expressions of my inward journey. Amazingly ,these artworks all sold. This surprised me, as I had a complete change of direction and theme for my artwork… I painted women’s faces, faces from my imagination, faces from my meditations, faces with symbols & totems, faces with abstract shapes & nature. I emerged from this cocoon in about July of 2021…. I was over faces lol!In March of 2021 I went on a magical trip to the South Island of NZ with my husband , and it had a profound effect on me. I took 3-4 months to process , to sit with it all before starting on my series on the bold unapologetic terrain of this raw untouched land, it was palpable, the energy of it was in me. The effect was that I actually change not only the theme of what I was painting, but my style as well , this land begged for simple lines and no fuss, not something I was used to! I started with the Milford Sound & Moeraki Boulders, and it soon evolved into stylised landscapes & random rocks, layers of land, more so echoing the Coromandel Peninsula as the months past, and of course injecting my adoration for the ocean in with them. Layers. Depth. Pieces of the puzzle. Stepping Stones onward … the Journey is ongoing & evolving with every creative experiment. Because let’s face it every piece I do IS an experiment. As an Intuitive Painter there is no planning or conscious thought as to how or what a ‘result’ will look or feel like, it is just starting and going with that flow, and I know the feeling… when it’s ‘right’”
Right now? Outdoor butterfly art is where I’m at! – in progress..
My Guidance Cards are now 13x9cm . (and 400gsm card stock with a silk finish).
My original vision for these cards was this larger size, but at the time , 3 years ago, I couldn’t find anywhere to print this size , near here, that was cost effective. Finally , I’ve found somewhere and I’m thrilled with the results, they look amazing!
They are exactly the same as before, just bigger, and I think, better 🙂
I started meditating in March 2020. Not long after I started, (literally days,)
I started painting this series,
and seems as though I cant paint anything else
until this is out of my system.
At this stage of my art journey, I am very happy to go with the flow and allow what wants to be without trying to over commit to creating anything, or any subject, or go with something that is not flowing happily.
In other words, Im in a space of total allowance these days… only that which brings me joy or not at all. 🙂
Most of these have sold, but there are a couple available,
if interested, please use the Contact button in Menu and message me details.
Reina Cottier Art 