Glas and oil on ceramic #46 Painting

I was born 1973 in Cologne, Germany. I have had a successful career as a graphic designer, having won several international awards. I completed my studies of visual communication in 1999 with a diploma. Since then, I have been working in well-known agencies as an Art Director and Senior Designer. At the same time as the graphic design, I have been artistically active for 20 years, without, however, having gone much public. Since 2016 I am on the market as a freelance designer and artist. My artistic exploration has to do with the content of the womanhood. These included initial body self-portraits, which were interesting due to the unusual perspective. It was followed by a series of nudes and sculptures of women's bodies. Impressed me in this time Cindy Sherman's self-portraits and the question of self-image and external image. The transition to abstract painting was not a creeping process, but rather a spontaneous act of pure stress management. So my painting became a direct expression of my self-image. And more, my mental state. Later my interest returned to figurative painting. I have attended courses "Old Master Oil Painting" to learn the techniques. Now I paint abstract and figurative. Sometimes the techniques meet in the pictures. The abstract facets overlay the figurative and there is an involuntary discomfort. Similar effects can be found on my sculptures. The intensity of my colors creates a close-packed atmosphere. I like to work with Pink. Hardly any other color has such a firm place in our rating system as Pink. (As a color for little girls, Barbies, hookers, etc. - definitely "not serious"). The color pink, however, is a bright pleasure, bright and full of confidence. A beautiful picture of women. I deal with oil painting, sculpture and the in between. Material and haptics play a role as well as color and contrasts. I also create Paper collages. Almost all of the works are untitled because I don't want to specify a viewing corridor. As spontaneously as my work is created, the viewer should get his impression as spontaneously and directly.