Waterclouds Painting

Helga Maria Albrecht, born in Southern Germany, lives as a contemporary painting artist and designer in Hamburg. She holds a diploma of Schwaebisch Gmuend University of Art and Design and is a curator of the Morgenland producer gallery in Hamburg-Eimsbuettel. In her artistic work, she creates mostly acrylic paintings, acrylic sketches and watercolors, but also digital works in which she further processes analogue paintings using digital techniques and develops them into independent works. Her paintings – both analogue and digital – consist of numerous layers and, despite their expressive and spontaneous appearance, have usually gone through a lengthy working process. Helga Albrecht's art is shaped by her desire for intensive communication with the artwork and for intensive engagement with the medium of painting. The works are about the interplay of structured and spontaneous energy, about bringing planned conception and impulsivity into balance using a sensitive order. This can only be achieved through surrender to the imponderable, to inspiration and spontaneous impulses while painting. But it also requires thoughtful composition and conscious design of surfaces, space and color. Her artistic process therefore goes through a constant change between spontaneous, gestural brushwork and intentional working through shapes, colors and surfaces, space, lines and material conditions. This includes multiple overpaintings and letting the work rest and looking at it anew. Helga Albrecht often finds inspiration in nature: color moods and color combinations, lighting conditions, organic shapes and compositions. During the process of painting she detaches herself from the triggering impulse, from the intention to depict something specific and enters into an exchange with the artwork, its elements, colors and shapes. An intensive dialogue develops, a weighing up, a feeling and tracing. In the end, an artwork visualizes the more or less long dialogue between the painter and the artwork, in the course of which a specific theme emerged and was ultimately “discussed” to the satisfaction of both parties.