Between the lines / Elsa Painting

In 2021 I move with my family to Miami, where I collect very formative impressions of Florida and the USA. This is how my two series "Colors" and "Sunshine State" come into being. My everyday life here in Florida inspires me to create here with emphasis on contemporary art and find myself again in my new works. I fell in love with nature as a child. I was persuaded by my parents that I should study journalism. That's how I ended up at the Faculty of Linguistics at Omsk State University, which I left later after moving to Germany.​ I am nineteen years old and live in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania near the Baltic Sea in Torgelow. Sky and water are two powerful main figures, which I observe and admire with enthusiasm on the Baltic coast, remain in my heart for a long time and later find resonance in my works. After a few years I learn medicine and even work in the medical field for some time, but still strongly strive to express and realize myself in a creative way. At the same time I start to deal with painting, try to paint abstract in acrylic and finally end my medical career.​ As a little girl I often watched my father developing black and white photographs. This unconsciously formed a feeling for the right picture detail. I get married, travel a lot and deal intensively with photography, motifs and compositions. I study free painting at the Free Art School Stuttgart - Academy of Art and Design. I am a member of the arts society "Kunstverein Ulm" and "Künstlergilde" in Ulm. I live and work in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria. In my main series "between the lines" I deal with the fusion of nature and spirit. Watercolor as the dominant medium gives me more freedom in the representation of this symbiosis and provokes an emotional engagement with the subject matter. The reference to abstract expressionism is a deliberate characteristic of this series. The use of the dripping technique and the complete abandonment of the use of brushstroke provides me with a high degree of freedom to transfer the flow of thought to the medium. I believe that this technique in particular allows for the visual expression of the confluence of dream and reality, which is as unique and unreproducible as the human individual who is the focus of the series. ​ Untypical for watercolor is the chosen large format of my images, which I use to prove that watercolor is not only suitable for smaller illustrations.