Thoughts about my work

Tree, forest and cloud or red, green and yellow? What is hidden behind that transparent veil, is it the canvas or a horizon? Are they fragments of a reminiscence or an escapist vision of the untouched paradise?

These works are impressions from a journey of which the places are more like a sentiment than real spaces. It is not about depiction but more about the creation of atmosphere, dynamics and spirit. And still, elements of landscapes tie these paintings to the real space, maybe not always well visible but still sensible. As if the need of the eyes for a certain orientation in space is still taken into account on this venturesome journey of an improvising way of painting towards abstraction.

Sky and earth or acrylic paint on canvas? It is always both, a constant swing forth and back between the different ways of perception, between things experienced and longed for, between the flat canvas and the illusion of the space. This small area in-between has become an artistic “home” for me or, maybe it just has not unclasped me yet – understandable somehow as there seems to be a special appeal about ambivalence.

 

December 2010

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