The Journey of Phoenix Painting

My Artist Statement: PASSION - EMOTION - ENERGY These three words describe my impulse creating abstract art. My greatest joy is, if the collector falls in love again every day with the artwork in always discovering new details and fascinating parts in the artwork. If my artworks permanently donate happiness in the same way I feel during creating the artwork, my mission is completed and I am blessed. My Inspiration: Nature is my most dominant source of inspiration. But also details of old industrial buildings, steel bridges of abandoned architecture especially if it is combined with traces of erosion or rust can be so inspiring for shapes, combinstions of colours and a first impession for the composition. Also the spontanous decision for a special song when starting a new artwork inspires and effects my mostly expressive and dynamic creative process. My approach is more intuitive than concept-driven. I love to react on the particular status quo after each step and to sometimes develope a completely new direction in finishing the artwork. My Techniques: I often work in series while each painting inspires the others, which causes a permanent dynamic and sometimes surprising progress during the creative process. Mostly I start a new painting with a ground coat - not always in white, sometimes colored - to establish a first structured layer. This priming means a kind of ruminant intro into the painting. All layers can be developed with brushes, scraps or in pouring colours onto the canvas. I love to combine the use of different tools and techniques in one painting - everything is possible and allowed to achieve deepness and vitality in the artwork. All steps shall lead to a painting with many little inspiring and fascinating details. My preferred material is acrylic, but I also use oil colours, oilpastels, charcoal, grafit, pigments - not only to generate special effects but also to apply voltage into the composition. Particularly in my colour-reduced, nearly monochrome works I often use ashes, marble dust or other material to create excitement. I prefer large formats but I also love to create small pieces on paper, usually in series. My Vita: I was born and grew up in Bonn (Germany). Due to my families interest in arts I started visiting museums and art exhibitions as teenager. I studied history of art and archeology in Bonn and Vienna (Austria) but decided later to start additional studies in economics and a career in the financial industry.