BANJAARAberlin

02/09/2025

This was one of my favourite houses. The roof was still in super good shape, it had shutters for protection against Taifun, a beautiful view on pond, 2 stories, a workshop with lots of space and many many interesting leftovers from the previous owners! In the large living room, you can still see the remaining of a Buddhist funeral. It’s also very nostalgic to experience the gone-by lives of entire generations. Unfortunately, there was no public transport anywhere nearby and the coastline very industrial, so not exactly what I am looking for 🏡🪴👩‍🌾 #空き家プロジェクト

30/08/2025

In this town I met a Japanese woman who just decided to buy an pry house to move from Tokyo to this small coastal town

30/08/2025

28/08/2025

28/08/2025

Walking this Japanese Hot Spring Town feels like a different planet or some dystopian film scene #温泉 #地獄
#ノマド生活

02/11/2023

for a peaceful world where children can grow up without fear

04/10/2023

Right then facebook, I'm throwing a call into the algorithmic-wilds to see if the person or the answer I need is out there. Help me by sharing this?

I am an artist. I've been one all my life. I paint, I dream: my internal and external life is creative and intuitive. It is driven by the spirit you see in my paintings - strange, potent, mercurial, full-colour, melancholic, kind, beautiful, overwhelmed, ambitious, romantic, shy, non-literal, dedicated, disorganised, hopeful. How on earth is a creature such as this to survive the financial gauntlet that is making a living as a self-employed artist in the 21st century? As a single mother with epilepsy?

What I offer you here through the ether is my honestly-wrought work of many years. But I am 44 and I am struggling. I live well below the breadline, struggling to pay the rent and the bills every month. I am utterly exhausted by this, and I am determined that life need not be like this for artists. Is the magic we make not vital life-giving food for the world's soul?
I am constantly trying to dream up solutions to this dilemma... a wealthy patron as in days of yore... my work to become in-demand by galleries across the globe... But the reality of struggle never leaves me.

This summer I visited the grave of Vincent Van Gogh, which I found deeply moving. There he lay, next to his brother, in a graveyard in Auvers-sur-Oise. One of the many poignant things he wrote in his letters to his brother Theo was this:
« Some day or another I believe I will find a way to have my own exhibition in a café. »
If this great great artist - cousin to me in epileptic torment - struggled so much and dreamed so small, what hope do I have?!

I don't know the name of the person I'm searching for to help me - perhaps you are an agent, a gallerist, an artist's apprentice, a personal assistant, or even a patron!... but I need someone to be on my side. Someone who completely gets and loves what I do. I need someone to help me with all the logistical, financial, promotional spiderweb of interfacing with the world, so that I can paint, and write, and make beautiful potent unique and necessary art without worrying how I will afford to buy my children a new pair of shoes. You need to be that rare combination of artistic in spirit yet adept in the world of numbers.

Send me an email :: rima.staines@gmail.com and tell me what you do and how you could help.

This exquisite photograph of me beside Van Gogh's grave is by Jean-Marc Zelwer

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www.rimastaines.com

🌟 Edit: I have a Patreon here if you would like to support me that way: https://www.patreon.com/rimastaines
And it's also possible to throw coins into my hat via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/rimastaines
♥️

27/08/2023

It’s like gazing at clouds in the sky finding shapes.. Just from another perspective 🤍

16/07/2023

My friend sent me picture of his favourite flower. Once a year it will start blooming, showing it’s beauty to the world, only to whither away the next day and go back to sleep, gathering strength for the coming year 🌺🪷🪷🥀life is like this. We cannot always shine and constantly show and be our most beautiful self and potential. Also, it has some thorns, to protect itself from negative influence 😆 Sometimes we need to rest, recharge, go into a state of hibernation or metamorphosis, to show up with all our power when the time is ready 💗