Rachel Collins, Watercolor Artist

The music-themed paintings combine two great loves in my life: making art and making music.  I began by giving musical instruments the same close focus as my nature subjects, discovering all sorts of abstract possibilities in the shapes.  In the process I found that painting in watercolor is not unlike playing music: once a sound is released, the musician cannot call it back, just as the watercolor painter can never completely undo a color laid down on the surface of the paper.  I build most of my paintings in a series of layers, creating chords of color, sometimes in dense clusters, sometimes in the simplest of harmonies. 

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The images in this gallery show paintings in the collection of the artist that are available for purchase.  Please click on the thumbnail here to bring up a larger image with medium and size information.