Welcome!
in our everyday hectic lives we long for refreshing rejuvenation.
to sit, still, to breath, to absorb Natures wonderfully vibrant colours and let pigment mix and mingle on white paper or canvas to create colourful images
is a joy and gods blessing that recharges and energizes me and i hope you feel the same looking at my paintings.
Thank you very much for visiting!
Simone
Since early Childhood I always loved creating.
After moving from Germany to Canada in 2000, I started painting in watercolours and now in various other mediums as well.
My paintings in bold colours are inspired by the fresh ingredients used in our restaurant Europa; my land and seascapes feature the stunning natural beauty and architecture of the Maritimes.
For me, painting has been an incredible journey discovering a new dimension of the grandness of gods creation.
Art is wonderful as it does not
differentiate age, status, race, health, time and place.
Art is there for everyone to enjoy!
An inner fire makes me long to paint; this fire frees my spirit and feeds my mind. the second I put my brush on canvas or paper my thoughts seem to calm down, as if to focus and make sense of it all.
This process often results in vibrant, bold colour applications.
When I apply pigment- strokes of vibrant juicy and rich colours- a painting takes shape and I feel that inner glow - brilliant, beaming, glorious, joyful radiance. I forget about time and space, it is like meditating and letting your mind float away. Once I finish a painting I feel mostly tired, but happily empty as my emotions, my fire and energy got transferred onto the canvas leaving me refreshed to soak in anew what life has to offer for me.
My approach is very simplified and focused by only using the three primary colours. However, the best available artists paints make it a joy to create a limitless number of different shades, values and colours. I enjoy painting from life. Often when I paint outside, en plein air, I try to capture the moment, the light, the sound and the smell of the air as if to take the viewer with me to the place, but still leave enough room for their own interpretation. I often paint one shape at a time, finishing one shape before moving on to the next, this way the changing sun does not necessarily challenge the painting as i move along. Plein air painting is focused and fast paced as weather changes quickly.
Because the winters are very cold here in New Brunswick, I am forced to paint indoors during the colder months. During those times I explore new ways of seeing things and try new products and approaches.
I started painting in watercolours in 2002 and have now spread my wings to soft pastel, acrylic and oil. It opened new horizons for me. What possibilities! And as i have ventured out, i find myself coming back to my watercolours, changing to a looser style and trying to push myself to paint bigger.
I want to share with you, the viewer not only the subject but showcase the use of the specific medium, the different flavour each brings and the joy of life.
Thank you for visting!
acrylic on aluminium board 8ft x8ft 7200$ see more info here:
acrylic on canvas 24x30in $650.-
triptych, multilayered acrylics on canvas 20x48 find more info here:
oil on gessoboard, 'en plein air' i peinted this near pottery cove in St. Andrews on a wonderfully sunny day. more info here:
oil on panel, 8x10, 225.-$ done 'en plein air' the shed is right by the ocean near the sunbury shores arts center.
en plein air, oil on board, 8x10in, 225.-
oil on board, 8x10, en plein air this painting i painted near the bayside outlook towards the st. croix island. it was a bit overcast but the goldenrod were in full bloom
a lovingly restored house in downtown St. Andrews-by-the-sea. it was a sunny afternoon and as the road was closed due to maintenance there was not much traffic to distract the view from across the street!
watercolour 'en plein air', 30x22in, this is a local boat in chamcook, that was launched while i painted, so gladly i had finished the boat by the time it went to see the first time in the spring!
painted 'en plein air' on the way to saint john. 5x7in approx.
painted 'en plein air', sitting in between the lush vegetation at a friends house overlooking chamcook bay. 5x7in approx.
watercolour, 3.5x9.5in, sold painted 'en plein air' just a few feet down from the spot i painted 'the day of the launching'
15x22in, watercolour, sold the red skin was so intriguing to be painted- and eaten afterwards!
waterolour, 6x8in approx. cats are such relaxed animals, what a joy to be painting!
waterbased media on Yupo 35x22in, 68x58cm Aquarell+Acryl auf 'Yupo'
Simone.Ritter.Art_gmail.com
48 King Street
St. Andrews, NB
E5B 1Y3
Canada
phone: 506-529-3818
