Giraffes stroll through the Berry in central France past my summer studio, sniffing the oversized poppies, sunning themselves under sunflowers. Snails pass by in a mighty way and bright yellow butterflies flutter about.

There are several versions of each motif in this series of three, which is set up as a tryptich and works very well. The variations, like the one depicted, are mostly unique pieces. This is because the 7 printing plates, which I cut by hand, were sometimes printed several times on one paper until I was satisfied with the result.

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Giraffes in Berry  woodcuts 2022

In October 2020 I took part in "Inktober", an annual "challenge" with new terms every day in October, published by inktober.com. Each term was filled with an ink drawing by 1000s of artists from all nations. I worked out my ink drawings into one- to four-colour silkscreen works in the 2021in A3. The editions are unlimited.

Inktober

cats

Landscape dissolves into light, water, weather and through people.
Thanks to its gravity it recomposes time and time again.
In its transitions landscape reveals its essence, its transcendence and its beauty. Like landscape, painting knows how to dissolve what is specific, solid, visible and familiar to us. Thus it traces the invisible without ever recognising  it completely.
In my landscape paintings I reflect my personal (subjective) view of the world. This in turn reflects the underlying realities/truths, makes them show through, encrypts them, discloses them only as approximations. Landscape is already a filter of what lies underneath, and in addition my view is influenced, shaped, blocked, distorted. I do not attempt to decode what i

Landscape - Störbilder - Disturbed Pictures

Tryptich, disturbed Landscape

Landscape dissolves into light, water, weather and through people. Thanks to its gravity it recomposes  again. In its transitions landscape reveals its essence, its transcendence and its beauty. Like landscape, painting knows how to dissolve what is specific, solid, visible and familiar to us.

lanes 2011

In her current series “Störbilder” (disturbed pictures), landscapes appear as if hidden by a curtain, a veil or lines. They allude to the contemporary perception of the world through modern media and to how flawed this perception is. She started to “disturb” her paintings in the spring of 2011. The accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant led to her view of the world being “broken”. The beauty of the landscapes that inspire her paintings – the Berry in France, the Uckermark in eastern Germany, the sea – has not suffered. But man has inscribed them with a virulent conflict. She has always tried to reach those transcendent aspects which the romantics were interested in: Landscape as a symbol of a creation in harmony, a mirror

Störbilder, abstract landscape, disturbed 2011

Störbilder, landscape, disturbed,2011

Sky and clouds

Seascape -Störbilder - Disturbed Pictures

Since 2001 I have been especially interested in abstract landscape painting. In my current work landscapes appear as if hidden by a curtain or a veil, disturbed, interwoven with lines or stripes. They create a distance between landscape and observer. They could be landscapes as seen from a train, with mirror images in the windows – scratched, and with masts and transmitters rhythmically interrupting the view. They could be like curtains that separate and protect from the world or like technical defects of electronic screens that present landscape scenes. They could be music, thoughts, conversations that a walker is occupied with and become interwoven in his perception and memory of the landscape he/she is walking through.

interveaved Landscape and seascape on canvas, since 2013

 woodprint, printed with four different wooden boards for four colours. The edition is limited on 6 to 20 exemlaires, wich each one is a little bit different cause it is printed by hand. The mesure of the printed surface is 25 cm x 50 cm on 50 cm x 70 cm paper. Everyone is signed with edition, titel, my signature and year.



landscape woodprint 2014

Silkprints and paintings on paper or canvas inspired by my jopurney in the beautyful delta of Ebro in Spain

Ebrodelta

 #reposted Paintings and woodprints . this series is inspirated by fotografs from Instagram. The artists gave me the allowence to paint freely after their work and to integrate their name and their title in my title.I reposted later on instagram the newly worked ourt motiv.


#reposted2018

 A cat on the knees of a Lady, A child playing to be a Lady.The cat observes the scene. In german "Damespiel" means checkers or could mean that somebody play to be a Lady.



screenprints

sunflowers have a majesty, and seem to relate the worlds behind and befor

sunflowers

curious scenes with woman,children, cats and flowers

poppyflowers and cats

digitalpaintings

lithographie

flower children 1, 2017
For this series of paintings I was inspired by a turkish wedding an Antalya. The children seemed to me very serious. With introducing the poppyflowers i intended to give their serious look an object. The adults might not see them.
Poppies with there unnatural red seem to me to transperce realiity to behindlying truthes and worlds.

flower children

I began to paint landscape after a long walk on the st James way in nothern Spain in 2001. The more I was walking the more I felt a power under all surfaces. Life. Landscape became translucent to let it shine threw. With this red series I tried to transport this impression. with this paintings still painted in oil I began 2001 a long period of landscape painting.
here you find also other paintings painted between 1995 and 2002. Portraits szenes etc.

works from 2002 and befor

This are sone of my first works where I was inspired by nature by the sky and the clouds. I painted it in 2001. So it is a real retrospective work. I painted the earth from above, as if i was over the clouds. So you feel like flying contemplating the paintings.

sky from obove 2001

This serie of canvases are grounded with blackboard colour so that I began as the old masters in Renaissance from darkness. I painted women with impressions of their garden.

women and their gardens


here I show a serie of figurative woodcuts from 2017

woodprints figurative 2017

 cyanotypie on Paper.

this is a serie from cyanotypes, where I experimented with collages of negatives, from my artwork as from the fotographs which inspire me to my artwork. Cyanotypie is an very old photografic technique where you work with chemical prepared artistpaper sunlight and water



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