Shipping News “I liked the way the boats looked." Painting

The series "Schiffsmeldungen" is a tribute to Annie Proulx´s remarkable novel "The Shipping News". These paintings refer to striking phrases in her book and her atmospheric descriptions. It is chaos out of which we form our own meaning rather than from neat little subjects and predicates. Lightness and ease as well as a resolving beyond the boundaries A play with contrasts, restlessness and the wild, chaos and peace, abstraction and figurativeness A suspension not seen at first sight It is all about balance, contrast, form and color. Despite the turbulence and movement the eye finds zones of stability and can rest there. Layer by layer tactile surfaces are built and partly taken away again, cautiously revealing what is underneath without exposing too much. Lightness and ease as well as a resolving beyond the boundaries A play with contrasts, restlessness and the wild, chaos and peace, abstraction and figurativeness A suspension not seen at first sight It is all about balance, contrast, form and color. Despite the turbulence and movement the eye finds zones of stability and can rest there. Layer by layer tactile surfaces are built and partly taken away again, cautiously revealing what is underneath without exposing too much. - Painting (mixed media) mainly acrylic on canvas - high quality materials: colors with high pigmentation (Golden, Lascaux, Goya, Schmincke) and strong canvas with a foundation of gesso providing structure and fixation to the color - all works are varnished protecting the acrylic color e.g. from sunlight and fading - stretched canvas on a wooden frame - ready to hang - signature and title at the back