landscape Painting

Katherina Remberg was born in Hamburg, Germany. The daughter of a Greek father and a German mother, she currently lives and works in Hamburg. Her life, in particular when she was a young woman, has been influenced by her many journeys and her visits to foreign countries. She has visited Nepal, India, Burma, Thailand, South Africa and Namibia, but has also travelled in the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. Katherina Remberg has been painting since her childhood. She started her art studies with aquarell paintings and other studio-created artwork in the "Atelier fuer freie Malerei", "Time4 Art-Atelier", "Kunstraum17" and "Offenes Atelier Stahl/Zaft". The paintings of Katherina Remberg are characterised by strong colourfulness, but also by transparency. Her technique is especially distinguished through the layering of paint in a step-by-step mode. Some paintings, where up to 60 layers have been applied, achieve through this technique a transparent depth. The colours are applied either solidly or in a glaze technique, and sometimes some layers get scraped off again, are washed off, or get painted over. Through this technique of alienation, the produced images seem to live a life of their own. The artist uses a variety of materials, such as acrylic paints, oil paints, chalks, charcoal and spray paint. In her creations, she mirrors the impressions formed on her many journeys. Katherina Remberg works with 'figuration'. Her main interest still lies with painting, the play of colours and the effect produced on the observer.