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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Sand on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 39.4x39.4in
About this artwork
Rina, who lives in South Africa with its intense summers and long dry spells, was deeply moved by a poem by DP the Poet. Inspired, she created an artwork using soft, airy strokes of white, grey, blue, and beige oils to reflect the emotions the poem evoked in her.
“He looked to her
expecting refreshment.
She was a beautiful
white, puffy cloud
Large in the sky,
Which brought no rain
to a water starved land.”
“He looked to her
expecting refreshment.
She was a beautiful
white, puffy cloud
Large in the sky,
Which brought no rain
to a water starved land.”
Rina Ritzi
South Africa
Credentials
- Covered by the Press
- Works on commission
« Skills feed skills and ideas lead to other ideas. »
Every painting begins with curiosity. Mine begins by listening. As it unfolds, it reveals something I hadn't noticed before, and with every layer, I discover something new—not only about the world before me, but about myself.
I'm Rina Ritzi, and this is how my paintings begin.
I don't paint what I see as much as what I experience. Sometimes that experience whispers through light and atmosphere. Sometimes it dances through colour and emotion. Over time, those conversations found their own voices in my work: Where Light Whispers and Where Colour Dances.
Nature has always been where I learned to listen. I've never believed that a painting should reveal everything at once. Like nature, it unfolds—layer by layer—inviting us to keep discovering.
For twenty-five years I worked in a world of numbers and precision. Painting became the place where curiosity, intuition and possibility could finally breathe.
If one of my paintings invites you to move a little closer, perhaps it has found its
I'm Rina Ritzi, and this is how my paintings begin.
I don't paint what I see as much as what I experience. Sometimes that experience whispers through light and atmosphere. Sometimes it dances through colour and emotion. Over time, those conversations found their own voices in my work: Where Light Whispers and Where Colour Dances.
Nature has always been where I learned to listen. I've never believed that a painting should reveal everything at once. Like nature, it unfolds—layer by layer—inviting us to keep discovering.
For twenty-five years I worked in a world of numbers and precision. Painting became the place where curiosity, intuition and possibility could finally breathe.
If one of my paintings invites you to move a little closer, perhaps it has found its