Störbilder, abstract landscape, disturbed 2011

In her current series “Störbilder” (disturbed pictures), landscapes appear as if hidden by a curtain, a veil or lines. They allude to the contemporary perception of the world through modern media and to how flawed this perception is. She started to “disturb” her paintings in the spring of 2011. The accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant led to her view of the world being “broken”. The beauty of the landscapes that inspire her paintings – the Berry in France, the Uckermark in eastern Germany, the sea – has not suffered. But man has inscribed them with a virulent conflict. She has always tried to reach those transcendent aspects which the romantics were interested in: Landscape as a symbol of a creation in harmony, a mirror