Artist
The
Artist
Painting for me means engaging in uncertainty. It displaces thinking and lets the senses take the lead.
Uncertainty creates a solid basis for my creative power; the basis of an evolution, which I also keep losing sight of. Despite all our technical achievements, we can see neither ourselves nor the world ahead with certainty.
My father, who ended his working life in the trade as a painter/colourist in 1996 and retired at the normal age, had the family come together for a glass of champagne to mark the occasion. We drank to his health, to the next years and talked about his first projects "in freedom". While we young people imagined a release from the yoke of work, my father sketched with a light hand on half a sheet of A4 his concrete idea: a surprising and convincing colour structure for my sister's garage door. It looked great! What had we been missing all these years? Why did we, why did I not know about it?
His simple answer, "I couldn't have depended on painting to look after you." At that point as an already appointed professor, I started the further education course "Fundamentals of Painting" in Leipzig the next semester to find out what I might have inherited from his talent.
Colours exploring the unknown
Today I know: For me, solid ground in the artistic reality is built on uncertainty and remains a mystery. Amazement becomes possible. Chance and inspiration gain space and power.
In the studio
Both large and small works are created in my studio. The large works I develop on the painting wall, the small works often result from cutting out and cutting to size. Paper, also wrapping or stone paper and white as well as black canvas serve as support material.
In the studio
Both large and small works are created in my studio. The large works I develop on the painting wall, the small works often result from cutting out and cutting to size. Paper, also wrapping or stone paper and white as well as black canvas serve as support material.