The sailing painter Jeannine Rafoth
There are the keelboats and dinghies with billowing sails standing full in the wind, plowing the waves - on canvas! For many, these are the most beautiful modern, energetic marine paintings that come from the Baltic Sea coast. From Kühlungsborn. By the sailing painter Jeannine Rafoth.
With a big heart for sailing in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Jeannine Rafoth will receive four prizes for regatta winners during the Warnemünder Woche and at the same time decorate the listed locomotive shed with a maritime theme for the celebrations taking place there during this week. She learned it, the Mecklenburger. Trained as an architectural draftsman and studied interior design in Heiligendamm. When sailing on the water didn't work out because a large boom put them on the planks, they didn't let go of the sails. “Just not the plastic ones! Preferably the old, roughly structured cloth, with the numbers still sewn on, the holes punched in, with ruffles.”
After a long time looking at old sails, twisting and turning and folding and cutting again, she launched her first work in 2010 and has called herself a “sail painter” ever since. Rightly! The focus is always on the old, used sail, which alone could tell many stories. She incorporates the seams into the design using brushes, acrylics and her own mixed colors - the recipe is highly secret! – brings the ships into the water. Usually in high seas, gliding quickly through the spray like the Flying Dutchman, because the skippers have long since reached safe land in their sailing pictures.
How lucky the regatta winners are to receive one of their works as a prize. But if you come away empty-handed, you can also browse their online shop on the Internet www.segelmalerin.de.
Monika Kadner
