To my art
For me, painting is a way of expressing myself, giving space to materials and feelings. It’s like writing, making music or dancing — a field of experimentation. Colors, materials and brushstrokes — how they set one another in the limelight, move together and create a new image or just be beautiful — like nature! Everything is energy —colors, transparency the skillful combination with different materials release this positive energy. The pictures then speak to us.
Painting techniques
Pure color pigments, acrylic paint, ink, tempera, gouache, gold, Himalayan paper, water, acrylic binder, canvas with brushes, brushes, sponges, hands, squeegee and spatula, washed and dried in the sun, many layers and experimentation. The art, is to stop at the right time.
Inspirations
Color field painting — the term refers to an abstract art style that gained popularity mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The style of color field painting can be seen both in the work itself and in its orientation. It is not uncommon for this form of abstract art to dispense with the use of classical painting utensils and tools. How color field painting is implemented in practice depends to a large extent on the artist’s preferred technique. In many variations, the processes even resemble the dyeing of substances.
Lyrical Abstraction — means an abstract art style of painting in which, in contrast to geometric abstraction, the colors are applied spontaneously and freely to the canvas. Lyrical abstraction is considered one of the first consistent implementations of Wassily Kandinsky’s teachings. Long before the term was defined, Kandinsky painted feelings abstractly in his improvisations and compositions (1910-1914).
Photography — is for me, a kind of contemplation and aesthetic principle. Naturalness, simplicity, beauty, colors, compostion, painting with light. Every art form has its own means, that of photography is light. To capture the individual beauty.
Wabi-Sabi — not the striking, glamorous or perfect are in the foreground, but the aesthetic value of the imperfect and natural. Wabi refers to a sense of the way, while Sabi is the idea of an object exposed to the course of time and thus transient. “Nothing remains, nothing is finished and nothing is perfect.”
Quotes
Henri Matisse said,“Painting does not mean coloring shapes, but shaping colors.”
“Do you give an example of your concept of ‘beauty’?
This can be a picture of Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, an image by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or even Jackson Pollock. That’s nice for me. But so is nature. A person can also be beautiful. Beauty also means integrity. This is also an ideal, that we human beings are intact and therefore beautiful.”
Interview by Gerhard Richter with Christiane Vielhaber, 1986
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn‘t have any beginning or any end. He didn‘t mean it as a compliment, but it was.”
Jackson Pollock
“The days you work are the best days.”
Georgia O‘Keeffe