Lucid Moments Fischerhude 2003 - 2013

"Lucid Moments" are these very short blink of an eye moments which become aware only for an "en plein air" painter. The perfect picture touches the observer, it allows his mind to wander to a different world for the briefest of moments. For a painter they are fixed immediately on canvas or taken by quick sketch back home to do the work, if the weather don´t allow to paint outside. Like the inspiration of a poem comes & goes these moments are very rare. For example: only a few see these moments in nature like the "water-ghost" image appearing only one day a year if the morning in February has no clouds or rising moon breaking through the clouds when the painter is just ready to finish the clouds of a sunset. All paintings are done within the last 10 years in "Fischerhude", near Bremen, Germany. Gerhard Raase lives for over 6 years besides the "Old Watermill of Fischerhude" directly at the small river "Wümme" 48 paintings & 1st biography of the autodidact artist and short story included.