Summer trips to my grandparents’ house in Seattle thrilled me as a kid for two reasons: blackberry picking and rain. I can still smell the wet gravel and greenery in their quiet driveway where my grandpa taught me to shoot baskets on drizzly July mornings. In soaked jeans and wet ponytails, my sisters and I would hustle around the yard eating blackberries straight from the bush as fast as we could before returning to boring old sunshine in Laguna Niguel, CA. To this day, I can’t enjoy a store-bought blackberry.
Five works that might bring your rainy core memories to the surface today.
1. “Rain over the Forest” by Magdalena Kalieva
Watercolor on paper | $40 - 290 | Buy here
2. “Rainstorm—Cider Mill at Redding, Connecticut” by George Harvey
Watercolor and gouache on paper | Free | Download here
3. “Rainy Streets in NY” by Olga Sharp
Oil on canvas | $1,051 OBO | Buy here
4. “Soho Rain/ West Broadway/ NYC” by Thor Wickstrom
Oil on panel | $450 | Buy here
5. “Linocut Downpour” by Ewa Medrek
Linocut, ink on paper | $79.51 | Buy here
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xoxo, a.s.
P.S. I made this on a non-rainy night in Seattle.
Loved these, Alex! ☔️