Ocean Shades Photograph

I am Karin Czermak, an academic professional artist. My passion is painting. My preferred mediums are acrylic and pastels on both canvas and paper. I often head out for some quick plein-air sketching. I love to collect shapes and colours from nature and take them back to my studio, where they serve as inspiration for my canvas paintings. During the work process, I translate landscapes, mountain shapes or forest lines into abstract forms and schemes. The landscape remains visible in the painting but is not immediately apparent. This tension between figuration and abstraction interests me. I explore and redefine it for myself anew in every painting. Inspired by natural areas and landscapes, I aim to create atmospheric, expressive, and poetic paintings. I come from Austria where I had the chance to study at the University of Applied Arts with experienced and very engaged professors. I am also holding a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Chinese Studies and had the chance to live and work in various countries around the world. Thus, my art is inspired by all these experiences I had the privilege to gain during my travel and work abroad. I currently live in Austria, where my love for nature is not only inspiration but also recreation during busy days. I am also a mother of three and my perception of life changed completely after the birth of my children,- and somehow has my art.