“Sifting the Sky into Layers”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas.
“Catching Clouds (Catching Fireflies in the Daytime)”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas.
Catching clouds (catching fireflies in the daytime): cotton candy balls of sparkling patterns of air are caught up in the sky, floating and soaring, being spun by the wind. I looked up at them, shielding my eyes through the windows, sheltered by vases of flowers, catching their fairy reflections in the flower-water.
“Into the Amber Light”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas.
“In Spite of it All” 48x84 inches, mixed media on canvas.
“Held Inside a Shaft of Light”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas.
“Room With a View”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas.
“Sunlight through the window blinds”, 24x48 inches, oil on canvas.
“Aerie Prairie (Don’t You Wish We Could Stay)”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. Purchase through Mobile Museum of Art.
“When We Miss Our Connections (It Looks Like a Memory)”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. Purchase through the Mobile Museum of Art.
“Honey golden evening”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. Email klaasannieo@gmail.com to purchase.
“High Noon”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. Email klaasannieo@gmail.com to purchase.
“Inside the Sound of a Gong”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD.
“Lilies in the sky with diamonds”, 24x48 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD.
Sunlight shines softly through the clouds, casting shadows of my window blinds and the flowers in the windowsill. They add a shimmery layer on top of this open window, this steaming, breathing, fresh-baked loaf of a painting, open and reaching with its canvas weave and brushstrokes, attempting to grasp out at the sky or- open out to it? It is the shape of a window, and it holds an invitation to enter another world in the same way that a window does. I can step through it with my eyes and lie down and daydream in it in the same way that I would with a window. But it is not a window, just like Magritte’s pipe was not a pipe. So the sun-shadows of the window blinds and flowers become the hints that break the illusion, the ephemeral travelers that go where I cannot.
Golden Hour Seen Through a Curtain in the Sky”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD at auction for Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy
“Airplane Window Sunrise”, 12x12 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD
“Skyscape Inside-Out”, 40x30 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD
“Sunlight Chased: 8/20, 8:23-10:14 am. 36x36 inches, oil on canvas. SOLD.
Here’s where this idea/obsession began! I left my canvas on my easel in front of the window one night and when I woke up in the morning, the sun was streaming through it, creating this beautiful painting. I had to try and record it the next morning I had off. If you scrolled all the way to the bottom of this page, thank you for looking through the entire journey so far. You can see more of it on my Instagram. If you are interested in buying a painting or a print, you can do so by emailing klaasannieo@gmail.com (unless that painting is being shown at a gallery, in which case, their contact information will be under the painting’s photo. I encourage you to reach out to them for the purchase.