Soul Surfer Painting

All 2-dimensional media that I create have one theme in common: layers or overlays, be it color, line or montage. I use all the traditional art genres: drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. To view the different genres separately use the link to "Collections". The biggest part of my pictures shown here are the "Overpaintings". It is a method of painting over print media, with which I can unite the entire history of the pictures.. Historical or contemporary, all images combine the complexity and heterogeneity of life. Cultural history or images of everyday life are processed by me and fit together in the iginal pages of the print medium. Juergen Wolfstaedter from the Wolfstaedter Gallery in Frankfurt am Main, said about my Overpaintings: "The focus here is not on the recognizability of the motif, but on the analysis of the composition: the distribution of light and dark, the rhythm of the surfaces, as well as the color weightings that give the historical paintings their inner dynamism. Through overpainting, the focus shifts from the narrative pictorial space to an abstract reading, translating the painterly thinking of the Old Masters into a contemporary form. Diez’s works thus operate in the field of tension between art-historical reference and autonomous color composition. Diez's works thus operate in the tension between art-historical reference and autonomous color composition. They are to be understood less as quotations than as a reflective engagement with painterly orders that have remained influential over centuries."