Lauffeuer / Wildfire Print

Kerstin Berthold is a German artist. Her enthusiasm for shaping inner forces and movements into matter has led her to become a painter and sculptor. She creates works whose motifs come from the representational, which are determined in their realization by form, dynamics and composition. Her paintings in oil paint on canvas are created from digital compositions based on macro shots and nature photographs. In the realization with the brush, it is above all important to work out forces and movements in their contradictions. In her current series Fire, she paints mostly multi-part pictures in oil on canvas. In strong colors and dynamic compositions, she works on the ambiguous power of fire. Fire stands for warmth and light, for homeliness, adventure and excitement, but also for danger and destruction, unpredictability and fear. This is why fire is one of the fundamental themes that touches people and even occupies their dreams. Fire not only has a transformative power in physical terms. As a pictorial motif, the dynamics of the transformation from matter to energy are transferred to the viewer's inner images and associations. She says: "My pictures are material for the viewer's inner dialogue. They shape the polarizing, the dynamics and energy."