About Rain Revealed

Slightly new direction for Rachel Brask abstract rain paintings to debut in group abstract show called “Bold Brushstrokes” at Heartspot Art Gallery end of May through June 2023. These paintings reveal “slices” of the paintings where Brask has left the pointilism dots of her process intact and “un-rained,” revealing the drastic changes in texture from the process.

RAIN REVEALED: ARTIST STATEMENT:

During the several years that I’ve been creating oil paintings inspired by rainy day views, one thing has always been consistent. People are many times surprised to discover that all these flowy, smooth and glossy oil paintings are created by using very thick dots of paint first, and applied as many daubs like pointilism. This approach has both fascinated and delighted, and it always makes for an interesting topic of conversation.

In recent times, I’ve been a bit more transparent with how I share my painting process, bringing the viewer inside the artwork to see the beginning, and then the end — the before and the after. During the last collection of artwork I created and exhibited, “The Skies Cried as my Fathers Died,” I had to not only share my process, but also a very vulnerable side of myself, exposing emotions, thoughts and feelings of grief and hope, in addition to the simplicity of moving materials around a canvas.

This revealing of such personal and deep information left a small part of myself exposed, vulnerable, and in a way, I think I was also showing works still in process, as I was still working on processing grief. This next Rain Revealed Collection is about leaving a small part of ourselves exposed, showing neither the before nor the after, but the works in process of the paintings, feeling perhaps incomplete, but mirroring the fact that as humans we are incomplete, and that we are still works in process, with all our vulnerabilities revealed sometimes when we least want them to, but when we need to.