Naturell Painting

I live in the northern part of Germany near the "UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea". I see my artwork in the wake of the nordic tradition of landscape painting. Where the land meets the sea, a unique atmosphere is created. My art is dedicated to this ever-changing landscape. Reeds, moors, shores, lakes and horizons are some of the series in which I continuously work. The outer layers of my work always carry a certain degree of roughness,cracks in the dark repoussoir and in the heavy relief, which are caused by the complexity of the painting´s mass. This suggests weathering and also creates a hint of transience and the past. In contrast to this, and as a painterly countermovement, I obscure the contours and create gentle transitions into the depths, giving space to what is no longer topographical. On the horizon, heaven, earth and water meet. Freedom and infinity can be felt. Everything merges and is connected. Above and below belong together, like yesterday and tomorrow. In most of my paintings, the end of the shore is always close, because, in the border regions near the water, there is still solid, but also uncertain ground. It has always been the case, this area is facing a clash between the elements and the tides that shape both the people and the landscape. Beauty and roughness balance each other. Since my childhood, growing up by the harbour at my father´s boat and yacht factory and in a family with maritime backgrounds based at the river Ems, near the boarder of the Netherlands, these natural experiences have exerted me on my aesthetic fascination. After a degree in "Work and Technology" from the University of Education, Göttingen, Germany, I turned to Fine Arts and graduated from the "New Art School" Zurich, Switzerland. I am a member of the German "Artists Professional Society (BBK)" in Lower Saxony, Group Oldenburg and was founding member of several Art Groups, such as the "Graphic Association Leer", where I practised Lithography. I am the mother of three girls and taught also for some years children´s art classes at the "School of Art" at Kunsthalle Emden, Foundation Henri Nannen. I have exhibited both domestically and internationally, was nominated four times in Art Prize exhibitions and won an Award in 2017 at the "Auf den ersten Blick" exhibition in Rastede, Germany.