The Reef I Painting

My paintings are created from an attempt to capture the unknown that moves our souls and to find the spirit within. My works are a reflection of the inner in the outer world. They are personal and contemplate the witnessed, experienced, remembered. Perceived and transformed through the psychological and physical urge to express myself in this abstract form, my works emerge as a resonance. Unconscious becomes visible and manifests itself in colors, shapes, lines. My works are never concerned with the figure itself but the fusion but with the entirety of what surrounds us. My paintings are a result of the endeavor to capture everything that stirs our innermost. To this end, I apply layer upon layer until a complex piece emerges. These layers form an energetic embodiement that captures our innermost if we let allow it. To allow this process of fusion and internalization -- to sincerely feel that we are a part of a greater whole -- it becomes necessary to enter a state that could be described as childlike: A complete detachment from our personal history, from thoughts, from memories, from things learned, from painful experiences and from all things that encumber. This detachment, this early-childlikeness can be found in many of paintings in the form of lines -- in alleged "scribble", which contains a significant symbolic power for children and for me, as a painter, represents the absolute line in its most dominatingform. Anna Schueler lives and works as a full-time artist in a small town in Germany. She is a painter and mixed media artist focused on abstract paintings, mixed media art and collages. She works with acrylics as well as oilpaint, which offers different options in the style of painting. Her work is bold and colourful while retaining delicate markings and hazy backgrounds. It is shown in solo and group exhibitions, including Art Fairs such as the Biennale Internationale, Florenz, Italy and the Women`s Art Museum, Bonn, Germany. After two years of experimenting and checking out International Exhibitions - Sales Worldwide. Her work is published in Artmagazines (Online und Print) such as Palette, Kunstspektrum, Elusive Muse and in Artbooks: Artists of the world und Bullet Proof and in the book of Poems by Greece Writer Dimitri Dimitriadis. Self published book ” Under Influence in 2013. To learn more about me please visit my website