It usually starts with the drawing : a play of lines, sometimes strong and raw, but usually sensitive, delicate and feather-light, exploring the themewith my hand. Once the theme looks sufficiently interesting on paper, I use a fine pencil to form focal points, areas displaying a concentrated attention to detail yet still playful and detached from the initial object.

Then comes the colour. Brilliant orange-red, Indian yellow or radiant blue stregthen and accentuate these focal points, then they fade into delicate grey and ochre tones and disappear into nothing. Areas left white provide counterpoints. The atmosphere begins to detach itself from the drawing and creates ist own symphony.

What makes the composition so exciting is a virtuoso play with contrasts: light/ dark – warm/ cold - big/ small – intesified/ hinted at – detailed/ informal – line/ colour – sensitive/vigorous and so on. In addition to this I love to play with perspective, sometimes I add detail almost in the manner of a collage, I ignore topographical realities for the benefit oft the overall effect, liven up edges and backgrounds with intuitive ciphers, symbols and splashes and reinforce the sketchy character by inserting what look like construction lines, letters, numbers or remarks in casual handwriting. A typical element of mystyle is to leave parts of the picture as a drawing, so that coloured areas appear even more brilliant, and vice versa.   

Now and then, I feel a great desire to test my potential on still lives, pictures of animals or flowers, portraits of stars, or icon-like „Africas“, to attempt large-format canvases or to experiment with the effects of collage.
All this can be seen in my book.

 

vita

1952	born on Oktober 24th in Bremen
from 1954	grew up in Nuremberg
1971	moved to Munich
1974	began art studies in Munich
1980	completed art studies - and has worked as a professional artist since then
1980/81	one year in Nice
1982	lives and works in Munich and since 1991 also in Italy
since 1976	numerous painting trips to England, France, Italy, Spain, St.Petersburg, Burma, Thailand, Idonesia, U.S.A, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Egypt and Marocco