It is in our blood

bending but rising

Poetry by Clemens Rettich

Business Coach, Writer, Workshop Leader

In the hot sun

Glued to the rocks

Grim and razor sharp

Dune grass and roses

Woven and rooted

Deep in the sand

Bending but rising

From any wind

Gulls on the shore

Heads tucked back

Waiting for the storm

Looking like

They will wait for . . . → Read More: It is in our blood

A Project

house behind the wall

Inspired by the houses on the Island but –  I never lived in a house like that it is a bit utopia -have no real connection to them except that they are belonging to the whole theme of things – Island – Water – sky and the windbreaker walls with rugosa roses, we called them “Sylt Rosen”.

this will be . . . → Read More: A Project

Where I should live – but don’t

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   A tidal way (Priel) Photo

The North-See is way out, it is low tide

“Wattenmeer”    Wadden Sea – Mad Flats,  under national heritage protection:

 between the Island and the Mainland       acrylic/canvas   30×56

Stille Wasser sind tief (Still waters are deep)      acrylic/canvas   30×56″

Lighthouse Island . . . → Read More: Where I should live – but don’t

Der Werdegang { development }

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Der Werdegang: to get there

It is not so important what the end-result is but the way to get there. Your whole being is involved to get there, you forget the unpleasantness of life for a while and concentrate of what is in front of you, to create – to make something that has . . . → Read More: Der Werdegang { development }

In the hot sun

intne hot sou, detail

In the hot sun   dunes grass and roses

Woven and rooted   deep in the sand

Bending but rising    from any wind

Gulls on the shore    head tucked back

Waiting for the storm   looking like

They will wait forever    the tide always floods again

The moon always comes around

Everything here waits

Poetry by Clemens . . . → Read More: In the hot sun

Wassily Kandinsky

Between sea and sky

   1898                   1909

    1926                         1944

The central theory of Wassily Kandinsky’s abstraction idea was that there is such a thing as inner necessity that is capable of determining the outward form of . . . → Read More: Wassily Kandinsky

“Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

sturm at Red Kliff

Second part of  ”See Stuecke”

“Weather Painting”

four as one – each 10×7″

My paintings are a confluence of abstraction and realism evolving from natural seascapes. Also based on the reality of seascapes the composition is generated in the studio and evolves into inner meaning of my live

“Color Rising with . . . → Read More: “Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

Water Ways

water ways

                                     

                                                          I follow you out into open water

 

                                                     Hovering between blue and green

 

                                               Never looking up; never looking back

 

                                        Deep into the abyss under endless surges

 

                                  You erode me and rebuild me

 

                         Washing over me in swells and fingers

 

                  You speak to . . . → Read More: Water Ways

Rain Forest – Haida Gwaii

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Decay and re-growth

Mysterious and misty, windblown and rain-saturated, these are some words I would use to describe the rainforest on Haida-Gwaii

These islands are a wonder on the West Coast of British Columbia.

There is a constant life cycle going on in the rain forest, decay and re-growth

acrylic/canvas    20×30″     $600.00

. . . → Read More: Rain Forest – Haida Gwaii

SPLASH

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As much as like to drink the wines and learn the professional language of describing the taste of this adorable liquid and bring that to life into my world of colors  my thoughts go often back to the SEA – so my dear followers – I will dip my soul into it and see . . . → Read More: SPLASH