Carola Vahldiek

I am an artist, photographer and author from a small town near Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. In my forms of expression (painting, words, photography) as well as in the styles of my works I do not limit myself to a single path. My creativity and my desire to express myself and the beauties I feel and recognize, demand to be born into the world as fully and unrestrictedly as possible. So I photograph landscapes in all their glorious sizes as well as animals from elephant to mosquito, the smallest structures like ice crystals as well as pure colours like flower details.
In my work as an author I write funny as well as spiritual or serious or meditative poems as well as children's books or stories for adults.

I also love to create figurative, but above all abstract pieces in the fine arts. I love to use a variety of painting styles and techniques and to create very different works depending on my feelings, intuition and heart's mood. Only my heart and my desire for beauty and inner and outer brightness are my compasses in my work.

I look at prefabricated opinions and paths given or trodden by others and perhaps derive inspiration from them before I leave them again to continue my own path. It is the infinite vastness of lif...

Farben-Freude (paintings), Bomlitz/ Walsrode, Germany, 2022

Lichtblicke für Auge und Seele (photographs and lyrics), Walsrode, Germany, 2012

Sichtweisen (photographs and lyrics), Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany, 2011/2012

Licht.Gedicht (photographs and lyrics), Lüneburg, Germany, 2007

Wasser in Sicht! (photographs and lyrics), Potsdam, Lüneburg, Rethem/ Aller, Walsrode, Schneverdingen, Hittfeld, Germany, 2003 - 2006