Karin Rave

Detail of Somewhere Within — pink, blue and white passages of paint crossed by fine incised marks

SomewhereWithin

Cotton Candy — drifting pink and blue atmosphere — Cotton Candy, 2023Oil and mixed media on canvas48 × 36 in

Love Notes — soft washes of rose and cloud with faint written marks — Love Notes, 2025Oil and acrylic on canvas28 × 24 in

Becoming — pale botanical forms opening into a field of light — Becoming, 2024Oil and acrylic on canvas36 × 48 in

I crossed the sky to find you.
I came to you with fire in my wings.
You answered with silence and light.
And suddenly, I was home.

This is my serenade.

Serenade — a figure held inside a blooming, singing landscape — Serenade, 2026Oil and copper leaf on panel36 × 30 in

Detail of Serenade — the face of a cockatoo, crest of orange and gold against metal leaf

Detail of Serenade — the painted edge of the canvas with handwritten notes

Detail of Serenade — the face of a cockatoo, crest of orange and gold against metal leaf

Detail of Serenade — the painted edge of the canvas with handwritten notes

Better Together — two forms leaning into one another — Better Together, 2023Oil and mixed media on canvas45 × 45 in

Jessy & Pepper — two companions inside a garden of colour — Jessy & Pepper, 2024Oil and mixed media on canvas36 × 36 in

Lazy Day — an opening in the rock with light beyond — Lazy Day, 2021Oil and mixed media on canvas71 × 47 in

Under the Sea — a lit cave mouth beneath the water — Under the Sea, 2021Oil and mixed media on canvas71 × 47 in

I Am Home — koalas resting in a deep green forest of hanging light — I Am Home, 2021Oil and mixed media on canvas39 × 71 in

Ocean Play Date — turtles moving through clear blue water above a reef — Ocean Play Date, 2021Oil and mixed media on canvas39 × 71 in

A Place I Remember — a wide panorama of waterfalls and a pale clearing — A Place I Remember, 2021Mixed media on canvas24 × 55 in · Diptych

A Place I Remember, right panel — waterfalls falling through dense green into the pool — A Place I Remember, 2021Mixed media on canvas24 × 55 in · Diptych

Balagan — a wide, densely inhabited world of creatures and growth — Balagan, 2022Oil and mixed media on canvas20 × 79 in · Diptych

Balagan, right panel — a second toucan among blue and green cascades — Balagan, 2022Oil and mixed media on canvas20 × 79 in · Diptych

I Know You — a mirrored world folding into water — I Know You, 2021Oil on canvas

Fear Not, Israel

אל תירא ישראל

Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas

48 × 36 in

October 2023

Fear Not, Israel — a work of memory, grief and endurance

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — a small red-haired child at the edge of the gold form

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — Hebrew words incised into the pale impasto beneath a gold-leaf form

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — a white dove in flight across falling blue

Fear Not, Israel — a work of memory, grief and endurance

Fear Not, Israel

אל תירא ישראל

Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas · 48 × 36 in

October 2023

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — a small red-haired child at the edge of the gold form

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — Hebrew words incised into the pale impasto beneath a gold-leaf form

Detail of Fear Not, Israel — a white dove in flight across falling blue

Karin Rave working on the floor of her studio beside a large unfinished canvas

Maybe the world never lost its magic.Maybe we just forgot where to look.