Off the Housatonic Rail Trail

Off the Housatonic Rail Trail

Off the Housatonic Rail Trail 2024
Andreas Engel

watercolor
10″ x 7″

$650 Unframed.
Interested? Email your request here.

A personal note about this piece:

This small painting is the first of a new series with an impressionistic approach and is from a local trail that I frequent on walks with my dog. I was inspired by the sunlight filtering through the trees and onto the trail path, creating a rich palette of colors.  –Æ

Deconstructed Hydrangea

Deconstructed Hydrangea

Deconstructed Hyrangea 2014
Andreas Engel

mixed media
5.5″x5.5″

$900 Framed.
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A personal note about this piece:

I created this piece as part of a series using organic materials as the vehicle. For this piece, I dried a hydrangea flower head and then sculpted an intricate framework around it with jute string. I then photographed it, printed a washed-out print on watercolor paper, and then painted and added details with watercolor, gouache, and pencil.

Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical sketches and observations of nature, Deconstructed Hydrangea more abstractly interprets and celebrates the invisible space and energy around the “finished” stage of a flower.–Æ

Rescued By A Selkie

Rescued By A Selkie

Rescued By A Selkie 2023
Andreas Engel

watercolor and ink
8″x10″

$2,400 Unframed.
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A personal note about this selkie painting:

This watercolor and ink painting depicts a mythological selkie shedding her skin to rescue and clothe a drowning young man. I also wrote the following poem to accompany it:

I want to hear you sing
In a language I don’t understand
Pull me like a suture
With your sanguine hennaed hand
I want to see your reflection
In waters where sirens swim
Disrobe me like a selkie
And wrap me in your skin
Sing to me
Sing to me
Sing to me
Crash me in the rocks
And drown me

–Æ

Beach Sand

Beach Sand

Beach Sand 2016
Andreas Engel

watercolor
3″x8″

NFS Private collection.

A personal note about this piece:

Peaceful, meditative grains of sand on a Sarasota beach. –Æ