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Artwork & Related Projects


Piers Park Pavilion
East Boston, MA. 		Most recently, I collaborated with my father, William P. Reimann on a series of panel sculptures celebrating world cultures and family history (these links will take you to the web site for that project).
I try to carry a sketchbook when I travel--and to pull it out to use it! This is a small sketchbook of black wash watercolors I completed during a monthlong trip I took to India in December 1993.
India Sketchbook

Painting from life
gate
Gated Garden 		This gate led down into a garden I was never able to visit.
house
Beach House 		Influenced by Edward Hopper, this depicts a beach house after a huge storm along the coast.
horse and two goats
Horse & Two Goats 		One of a series of paintings of the small plastic animals that I'd owned as a child. My motivation for this was wanting to paint animals that cast shadows--and at the time I did not have the mobility to go out to a zoo.
goat & sheep
'Chinese Generals' 		I painted this at the time I was taking a course in Chinese Art History and learning about how the Chinese painters used animals and other images drawn from nature to express political parables.
The instructor caught my attention with a story about two Chinese generals at the time of the Mongol invasion (c. 1272). One ended up collaborating with the invaders, the other relinquished all his titles and wealth and went up into the mountains to herd goats. A well-known master painter illustrated this with a simple brush drawing of a sheep and a goat, the animals symbolizing the respective spirits of these generals. I painted a lot of bad paintings of sheep and goats before I managed to get this one good one. Whether or not it ended up being anything about Chinese generals is another story....
Los Picos
Los Picos de Europa 		A sketchbook of images from various trips & travels.
(6 images)
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Fantasy Images
rider
Christmas Rider 		Series of four hand-colored Christmas cards
(inspiration drawn from numerous sources, several have a Tolkienlike flavor)
street scene
Renaissance Alley 		The inspiration for this was an Italian hill town, but I think it does suggest stepping into a far off city in a fantastic world.
German City
German City 		River view of a medieval German city.
tarot cards
King & Queen of Cups 		These cards were a wedding gift for a dear friend. The poses are adapted from the card symbolizing 'The Lovers' in the fifteenth century Visconti Tarot deck.
(note: poor reproduction quality)
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