"Being Happy" 2 Series Painting

Patricia von Andersen is a Contemporary Large Scale Abstract Artist from Düsseldorf, Germany. Patricia is known for her vivid, energetic, colourful and life affirming large scale paintings. Von Andersen devotes particular attention to sound, colour, light and movement in her composition and technique. Patricia von Andersen has exhibited at the prestigious "The Other Art Fair London" as well as at the "Cobra Museum of Modern Art" in Amsterdam Amstelveen and the gallery "Casa del Arte" in Palma de Mallorca in Spain. In November and December 2022 Patricia showed her work at the Miami Art Weeks / USA and and in 2023 at NYC Artexpo, Manhattan,New York City USA. Being particularly inspired by Abstract Expressionist painters such as Helen Frankenthaler as well as Joan Mitchell, Patricia combines the knowledge as well as the tradition of the past with her own contemporary view of life and art, which she expresses through her art. Patricia von Andersen has studied Design, Opera singing and Political Science at Yale University, KLC School of Design London, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, UK, Freie Universität Berlin, KLC School of Design, Leeds Conservatoire as well as in Berlin, Hamburg, London, New York, Leeds, Salzburg and The Hague. She works conceptually with a variety of mixed media to create her art works. Being an artist all her life, Patricia von Andersen always painted, whether it was painting the colours of music through her voice, being an opera singer, painting with colours through Design or from a certain point of her life concentrating mainly and wholeheartedly on visual arts as a painter. Colour was a very strong source of inspiration for Patricia on various levels of life. Another big driving force to create has always been music. Patricia von Andersen incorporates the emotions of music, its rhythm, its colours, its meaning as well as its overall feelings into her paintings. Patricia wants to bring positive energy, peace, wellbeing as well as happiness to the collectors homes and offices. Collectors from all around the world appreciate Patricia von Andersen's artistry, which she expresses through a unique colour palette used in her artworks. "My works arise from a profound inspiration that I draw in a recurring way from love, music and nature.