Visionary Artist from New Zealand
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
Overall, ’m loving those colours too, warm goldy greens, teals, turquoises, lime & blues.
Found it’s new home in Singapore with a regular collector of my art.
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.
Both these pieces have sold. 🙂
Handmade Mini Surfboards, made from recylced ply wood and painted.
Can be hung either vertically or horizontally, or leaning against something.
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So much fun…. wil post complete and progress pics of more in the coming weeks 🙂
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This month has been soooo busy, and we are only 2/3 of the way through.
Well, my shades of white series has morphed into a combo of lots of different styles,
Im revisiting the old, the VERY old, the just last year and the new with technique, style & how I am painting at the moment.
Also, quietly noticing how bored I am becoming with my creations, no sooner have I started a piece, i am over it…..
….Its not that I dislike it, quite the opposite in fact, I love it, but my rate of ideas, and creative output is too fast for my time allowance and physical speed of painting. No sooner have i come up with an idea, its not even born and im onto another, lol, not sure this is a good thing, but im just going with it for now, not giving it too much attention. 😉
So, first up is a series of 10″ x 10″ i did, this is a selection of them
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
these proved very popular and 3 were sold before they were finished.
I also finished these 2 below, top one has sold:
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
This one had taken me a while, I started it in early May, unusually taking a long time on it, not sure why, but I am really pleased with how it turned it, and it sold about 15 mins after being posted up online:
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
I found my balinese stamps whilst looking for something else one day, so had a little play
around with those in the background of these 2 paintings,
I really like the subtle detail they add to the painting, not ‘taking it over’ but just a little interest 🙂
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
Back soon with some pics of current artworks in the pipeline,
until then, take care,
x
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
So, continuing with my latest obsession:
my ‘Shades of White’ series #5 above, complete and sold. This one is my favourite!
Totally in my element to be painting these at the moment, loving the backgrounds, they look like a mix of galaxy and marble to me. I create them with a combo of water spraying, sponging and big/wide paint brush on its side, I layer this up, and sometimes let dry inbetween layers, but because Ms Gemini here needs INSTANT results, we are not too fond of ‘waiting for things to dry’, no, noooooo waiting for me…. of course, IF I do have to wait, I have another 6 paintings to continue on with on my never ending conveyor belt of creations. 🙂
………also completed and sold #4 below: 
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in progress: 
in progress:
ON A ROLL!!!!
*but quietly wonders when it will end?- who cares!*
back with completed updates soon.
Have a good weekend everyone.
xxx
well this series happened quite by ‘accident’ ….
I painted the background of #1 and then doodled a very fast design straight onto the canvas and painted the outline of it white, as I always do as a prep for the rest to come… the COLOUR, the signature ‘Reina colour’ 🙂 ……
I posted an ‘In Progress’ pic on my FB page and got an overwhelming response of: “its FAB as it is!!” … so, a new series was born…
this is the finished result of the first one:
#1 (18″ x 36″-for sale)
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
#2 (20″ x 24″ Sold)
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and this one i started yesterday, still in progress: (SOLD)
(C) Reina Cottier Art 2013
I feel like I have another few of these left inside me yet 🙂
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oh and in other news, my art is one of 52 artists featured in the wonderful e-book:
52 Prescriptions for Happiness- by Joe Dunn & Mali Apple.
this is the pic they used:
“Gaia Speaks”-by Reina Cottier
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2013
this style is super fiddly and exacting, but it totally appeases my ‘perfectionist’ side, which must break out every now and then….
(both in progress)
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I also continued on with my’ TRIBAL’ series, which I LOVE doing…
as always there is very little planning with any of my paintings, they are all just go with the flow, most of the time I have no idea what the final result will look like and I just play it out as it evolves.
IF i try to plan something it never flows & I often end up leaving it for months before it is finished.
I am currently working on a mix of both, tribal and sun/surf, and its really exciting for me,..
seeing all my styles coming together like a story intertwining.
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I just had a FULL week of nothing but painting!!!!!! (ok yes, I slept, I ate,) I felt so inspired, the more I painted the more creative I felt. The only downside was that I couldnt get to sleep at night, so many ideas whizzing around my brain! lol!
I ended up selling 4 painitngs in 5 days and getting a 5th commission 🙂
here’s some of what I was doing….
These 2 (to follow) were inspired by a place I go to in summer called Tairua, in New Zealand… I have had nearly all of my summer holidays there since i was 13.. its a stunning small seaside town on the east coast of NZ, the beach is beautiful and the energy of the beach & sea there just sooths my soul… its a surf beach, so sometimes very big surf, and not great for swimming, but I go and sit on the beach and soak it all in on every level…. (both sold within a day of uploading)….
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2012
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2012
In all of these I am also heavily influenced by a place called Muriwai, I lived there for nearly 2 years a few years ago. It was a tumultuous time in my life, a time where I needed healing and this house I had there was up on a hill, set into native bush, and looked out onto a NZ west coast beach (Muriwai) and I had view right up to the Kaipara Harbour… one of the best views EVER. Every day I would sit on my deck/balcony and look out at the water and watched the sun set…. omg the most AMAZING sunsets I have every every seen.. i have so many photos of it now, and every one different. The water was rough and wild, a different colour every day, deep turuoise, almost black at times, – so beautiful, yet always so unpredictable, so dangerous, so full of life, unforgiving, all encompassing LOVED IT. ….
so this one is finally finished and also sold on the first day of loading….
(c) Reina Cottier Art 2012
Second week of school holidays this week coming, and I have the kids , so not alot of painting happening, but have a day or 2 set aside so should get on a roll again – scuse the pun!
xx
Reina Cottier Art 