Black Thistle Painting

Thomas Ernst (* 1980) studied physics at the University of Regensburg (Oberpfalz). He works as a manager at SAP near Heidelberg (Kurpfalz). He is married to Anke Ernst and has two kids, Jakob and Marlene. While painting accompanied his whole life, Thomas Ernst decided around 2015 to concentrate more on his passion for art. My idea of painting and the things as they seem.. Abstract painting is about playing with ambiguity, with the vague and with chance. The creative mind tries to feel a fragile and quite subjective tension and beauty in the work. Various elements are available for this, such as colors, shapes and movement. Reduction and contrast. The format of the presentation – the possibility to rest your gaze on the long shot or to come closer and focus on details. The result is non-realistic, so there is nothing clear to see or every viewer can find something of his own in the picture and interpret it for himself. The lack of clarity and a certain degree of fuzziness is therefore wanted and necessary. For me, this type of perception corresponds to the nature of things, and our human understanding and remembering are also based on these principles. A realistic representation hardly leaves any questions unanswered. In art, alienation and creative play with the obvious allow access to something deeper and to the subconscious. Similarly, a deep look into the structure of real objects does not lead to more clarity. At the molecular and atomic level, we ultimately get blurring, as if there were a law of nature behind it all. It seems as if the simple path is blocked for us humans, as if clarity and knowledge are at best subjective. It is the art of the successful painting to find a representation that invites you to linger and allows, perhaps a quiet or powerful, but always a harmonious flow of thoughts and feelings.