"The hidden fish" Painting

"Unseen realities" - Michael T. Pfaud`s works are created in intuitive painting processes using very own techniques and highly pigmented colors. - "I usually start with a fast and targeted work process based on a color concept. During the painting process I try to develop the image content step by step, always taking care to keep the control of what`s happening on the canvas." - Mostly Pfaud`s paintings evolve and change in multiple repeated - or even partial - overpaintings. - "By fast work processes and - sometimes - the method of trial and error, regarding to my painting techniques, inevitably arise a lot of pictures in a short time. These paintings are then reworked until they are coherent in color and dynamics." - From the late 1990s to the years up to about 2012, Pfaud saw no purpose in depicting an existing reality. His intention was to create a new, never seen dynamic reality in a playful way during the painting process. " In the paintings from the period 2008 - 2014, I tried to create realistic-appearing scenarios of absolute non-representativeness - or just little representativeness , which are supposed to trigger associative processes at the viewer." - Since about 2002, in addition to classical painting, Michael T. Pfaud works with his own digital photo material, which he edits on computers and creates completely independent picture worlds from it. - "During these computer-based workings with my photographic material, my self-developed digital structures and any kind of scans in the last years, more and more representational picture motives or picture motives with traces of representativeness emerged." - Currently - in addition to his free paintings - Pfaud transfers his computer - generated images to canvas in painting techniques. - "I usually work with self-made, high pigmented acrylic colours, sometimes but rarely with oil colors." - Pfaud also works as a composer and music producer.