After a 15-year career in product and user experience design, Rehann made a deliberate transition into full-time painting. Along the way, he adopted several personal principles that profoundly shape his artistic life: he does not sell art, do competitions or exhibitions. He has minimal social media presence, as he believes that public performance and digital visibility often disrupt an artist’s growth and ability to discover who they truly are as an artist.
In both his art and his teaching, immediacy is central. Rehann paints wet-into-wet, typically completing a work within 20–30 minutes while the paper is still wet. He teaches only in person, rejecting online classes and recorded tutorials in favour of real, embodied learning—where attention, intuition and physical engagement shape the outcome.
He regularly leads workshops and multi-day retreats across Australia and internationally. His teaching focuses on developing intuitive skills, painting fearlessly, building confidence and understanding how to create luminosity and movement in watercolour.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples, and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. The Wadawurrung and Bunurong Peoples have and always will belong to the Werribee Yalook (river), creeks, stars, hills and red clay of this Country.
“Natural forces - wild energies - often have the capacity to frustrate representation.”
— ROBERT MACFARLANE, The Wild Places
