"Abstract Organics" 91x91cm R8,150
"Tanglewood" 59x78cm R5,800
"Tropics" 102x76cm Price: R18,700
"The Glade" 52x79cm Price: R6,720
"Once upon a blue moon"
90x90cm R11,950
"When light is low" 75x75cm R7,200
"Lollipop Trees" 36x50cm R2,900
"Tree of Life" 60x61cm Price: R5,800
"Redwood" (oil on canvas) 65x70cm R6,400
"Ophir"75x75cm R7,200
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"The way I see it..." 91.5 x 91.5cm R11,950
"River Bend"60x61cm R7,260
"Nucleus" 61x61cm R5,800
"Olive Mandala" 61x61cm R5,800
"Just happy - no reason" 61x55cm R4,750
"Rondo" 59x44cm R3,500
"Summer Forest" 69x59cm R5,800
"Other Worlds 2" 76x61cm R11,950
"Other Worlds 3" 65.5x65cm R11,950
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"Starry Night" 81x61cm R7,400
"Blue always wins" 80x80cm R7,900
"Radiance" 60.5 x 60.5cm Price: R6,930
"Dream Forest" 78 x 79cm R6,600
"Morning Walk" 91 x 75.5 cm Price: R6,600
"Ancient Stones II" 76 x 50cm R7,350
"Leafy Mandala" 91x91cm R8,850
About Maren Scharein
I was born quite a few decades ago in the northern most part of Germany. My earliest exposure to art was in my young teens when I visited the exhibition of Emil Nolde whose home was very near to my father's ancestral homestead. Nolde's bold motives and colors impressed me already then and I have since added many artists of varying genre and different nationalities to my favorites' list.
After leaving school I went to study at an art college (Muthesius Werkschule) in Kiel / Germany, not totally sure into which category of design I belonged. But before I could find out Prince Charming swept me off my feet and we raised a family instead. When I entered my fifties I found myself very dissatisfied with my life and it took me a while to figure out what was missing. When I finally did I was very sure that I wanted to paint generous paintings and wanted to be totally free on the canvas, no tutoring, no guiding or being told how to put a painting together! I wanted to do as I wanted to do! I knew already how to use a brush and mix colors, about proportions and composition and all the other basics and the rest was trial and error! I enjoyed it immensely and I agonized, still do both most of the time!
Oil paintings have always been my first love and it always will be, but when I was exposed for the first time to Aboriginal Art I was blown away. Which is what inspired my "dotted" paintings and although I now also do Mixed Media I always come back to an "odd dot" picture just for fun and relaxation as dotting along is very meditative and contemplative.
I am hoping that my paintings will express my love for art, color and shape, beauty and nature and people will enjoy it as much as I enjoy the journey."
I was born quite a few decades ago in the northern most part of Germany. My earliest exposure to art was in my young teens when I visited the exhibition of Emil Nolde whose home was very near to my father's ancestral homestead. Nolde's bold motives and colors impressed me already then and I have since added many artists of varying genre and different nationalities to my favorites' list.
After leaving school I went to study at an art college (Muthesius Werkschule) in Kiel / Germany, not totally sure into which category of design I belonged. But before I could find out Prince Charming swept me off my feet and we raised a family instead. When I entered my fifties I found myself very dissatisfied with my life and it took me a while to figure out what was missing. When I finally did I was very sure that I wanted to paint generous paintings and wanted to be totally free on the canvas, no tutoring, no guiding or being told how to put a painting together! I wanted to do as I wanted to do! I knew already how to use a brush and mix colors, about proportions and composition and all the other basics and the rest was trial and error! I enjoyed it immensely and I agonized, still do both most of the time!
Oil paintings have always been my first love and it always will be, but when I was exposed for the first time to Aboriginal Art I was blown away. Which is what inspired my "dotted" paintings and although I now also do Mixed Media I always come back to an "odd dot" picture just for fun and relaxation as dotting along is very meditative and contemplative.
I am hoping that my paintings will express my love for art, color and shape, beauty and nature and people will enjoy it as much as I enjoy the journey."