Reach Painting

"I revere trees when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves." - Herman Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte I am a big fan of the work of Michael Raedecker, Norbert Schwontkowski and I admire the work of old masters like Caspar David Friedrich and Rembrandt. I share the romantic view of nature with the painters of the 19th century, although I think that our relationship with nature is opposite: we are not above nature, we are part of it and we are both equally vulnerable.