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To contact me for purchase- and shipping options, or to start the process of a commissioned portrait, email me: rienekeleenders@gmail.com

Please check out my book "Women of the World" at (copy and paste):
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/820448

All the original paintings on this site which are marked for sale, are framed or gallery wrapped. Reproductions are not framed.

CALENDAR

April 10 - June 13, 2010: "Hyper Realism" at Mayer Fine Arts Gallery in Norfolk (Waterside) paintings by Michael Fitts, Sharon Moody, Terry Moore Strickland and Rieneke Leenders

Coming Soon:
Charles H. Taylor Arts Center,
(4205 Victoria Boulevard, Hampton, VA 23669. Phone#: 757-727-1490)
TideWATER: Watermedia by Tidewater Artists
Invitational show

Extended show:
"The Painted Garden" Group Exhibit at Beach Gallery,
( 313 Laskin Road, Suite 104,Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Phone# 757-428-3726)


For portrait commissions I am represented by Beach Gallery
( 313 Laskin Road, Suite 104,Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Phone# 757-428-3726)

Some of my work is on continuous display at :

Frameworx Art Gallerie
(Pacific Plaza: 301 25th Street, Suite 3, Virginia Beach 23451. Phone #757- 491.0098)

Richard Stravitz Gallery
(1217 Laskin Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone:#757- 305-9411)

Visual Interludes Gallery at Pembroke Mall

To see my work, you are invited to visit the galleries and exhibitions posted on this site or contact me to set up an appointment.

PORTRAIT COMMISSION ESTIMATE

ESTIMATE FOR PORTRAIT COMMISSION : MEDIUM WITH SIZE + CONTENT

MEDIUM and SIZE
$2.50 per square inch for oil on linen.
$1.30 per square inch for watercolor on Arches rag paper

+ CONTENT
Head and shoulders: $300
Extended portrait (no hands): $375
Figure, ¾ with hands: $450
Figure:complete: $600
Group portrait, per subject (estimated)
$300 - $600

ADDITIONAL CHARGES
10 – 30% (estimated) for detailed background and/or clothing
$100 - $200 for pairing with existing portraits created by other artists
Excessive travel expenses: after first hour or 60 miles total: $2.00 per mile
Excessive photo shoots: after first shoot: $150 per session
Matting and/or framing
Sales tax

TERMS
$100 down payment
1/3 down after initial planning session
Full payment due upon the completion of the portrait, unless agreed otherwise
Upon completion, client has one week to return the portrait for minor changes
All watercolor paints used will be the most permanent available.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my paintings I like to evoke emotions.
My extensive travels around the world have created in me a loving fascination for people, places and cultures of the world. I feel compelled to paint that.
Most of all, I like to paint portraits of people that I have met. I try to convey my experience of emotions in those portraits.

BIOGRAPHY

Rieneke Leenders was born and raised in the Netherlands, where she also met Thijs, her husband. After graduating as a gold- and silversmith, she spent a few years working as such in Toronto, Canada. There she and Thijs saved enough money to start the trip of their life: a honeymoon around the world that lasted almost five years. During this adventure she learned to love and appreciate people and their cultures and recorded memories of them on photographs, which she still uses as references for the portrait paintings she is known for. After the trip, Rieneke lived a few years in the Netherlands, during which time she studied sculpture and her two sons were born. Her husband organized photo-safaris through Africa. Occasionally she joined him with their first son Floris (who, before his third birthday bathed in the Indian Ocean, crossed the Sahara desert and danced with the Pygmies). After the second child was born, they settled for a steadier life, first in Spain, later in Virginia Beach. Here Rieneke started absorbing the techniques of watercolor, using the memories of travel as her main motif. Her passion for painting lead to several leading positions in the local art world, among others: founding member and vice-President of the Multicultural Alliance of Virginia, President of the Virginia Watercolor Society, Secretary of Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists and President of Tidewater Artists Association.