The painting is inspired by changing light moving from sunset into nighttime while the light rises. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the very still, windless surface of this lake at sunset, the magnificently gorgeous sunset sky illuminating and reflecting off the stillness of the lake surface, and contrasting against the softened lines of the hills across the water in the distance. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the view across bright green bushes, grasses, and trees, down into the mountain valley where there is a lake, and just beyond the barely-visible fog are the mountains of the other side of the lake. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the many varieties of summer green tones show as the mountain rises above it all in the skyline. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the sunset of a summer evening, the blues, pinks and magenta hues melting into yellow, gold, and orange against the silhouetted horizon. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the brilliant winter sunrise after an overnight snowstorm, with the freshly powdered snowflakes still hanging on the pine boughs and tree branches. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The painting is inspired by the brilliant fuschia and blue colors of a cotton-candy sunset over the hues of gold, orange and yellow fall foliage below. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

How many times do we look to the sky on a gray day and count our blessings? Many take a gray rainy day as an expression of doom, gloom and sadness. How much more often do the gray days coexist with patches of clear blue sky? In this painting, I aim to express the contrast of the beautiful and warm fall foliage colors with the gray storm that appears to be rolling in, or rolling out, depending on how you view the artwork. Over the horizon is a section of blue sky. But if you look even more closely at the top left of the painting, you'll see there's a breakthrough patch of blue sky in the midst of the gray, a little reminder that we can find that breakthrough when we look hard enough for it; or it has a way of finding us when we're least expecting it. All this uses rain and oil paint as the abstraction of time, material and metaphor.

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The painting is inspired by the view of a beautiful autumn day in by a pond, the brilliant fall foliage reflected in the water, while the sky above is hovering between a blue sky day and a gray storm rolling either in or out. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.

The early morning in the city is a quiet, still, and sacred time. The rain at the earliest spark of daybreak over the city glows with the refraction of the first light glistening on the raindrops as they fall over the quiet hush of a waking city. Walking around at this time carries with it a bittersweetness, saying goodbye to the night that we've known, while saying hello to the hope of a new day and whatever it holds. The rain falling during this time brings a white noise and a hush to the dawning sidewalks and buildings, as we take the first steps in shallow puddles to wherever our journey for the day starts.

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The painting is inspired by the dark blues and high contrast light of walking around Boston around the early morning hours, right at sunrise, when it’s quiet and calm. Imagine all this viewed through the lense of a window when it’s pouring rain, and you get this imagery.

This original oil painting is painted on all outer edges of a 1.5 inch profile canvas, signed by artist Rachel Brask, and is available for purchase. Painting comes with hanging wire affixed to back of canvas. This original hand-painted canvas also contains a uniquely textured surface where some of the "rain drips" dried in place.