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Again this watercolour was done on location. It was considerably hot on that September day. Inspired by the historically significant place - Margate where W. Turner created one of his finest watercolours and where he spent his later years with Mrs Booth -, I decided to paint the jetty on tinted paper. I did this by using gouache white. Hence is is not exact to call the picture a watercolour, for I built up the light parts with body colour while only using watercolours to give each element its local colour. You can see it is a plein air study. The sky shows marks of the rubber band which I used against the wind (it blew strongly on that day which made painting not easier) to stick the sheet of paper onto my board. Altogether the painting shows sort of loose ends, unpolished bits and what one might call crudeness, but that's the downside or, more correctly, advantage of plein air work. It has a certain freshness one cannot feign in the studio, and even tough it lacks a studio work's tidiness it transports the atmosphere of that day beautifully, at least to my eye.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
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Austria
Born and raised in Vienna, I was trained at the "Künstlerische Volkshochschule Lazarettgasse" in naturalistic, portrait and figure drawing for several years, and was taught oil as well as watercolour painting techniques. Later, I studied Classical Philology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. My two great passions are visual art and literature. Having said that, I think it necessary to say that I do not mix up my interests in literature with my painting, but rather let them stand and thrive separately. Yet, although my literary and theoretical training may not have an impact on my visual artworks, it plays a crucial role in my artistic thinking, for it helps me to find a way through the sheer impenetrable jungle of contemporary art theories, concepts and ideas that shape our modern thinking of what "good" art is or ought to be. Even if I use a variety of different media and materials, I have a unique and very deep passion for watercolour. This is the medium I discovered first as a child, this is the medium I learned with how to represent reality. Since then, of course, my style expanded beyond realism. Now and then, however, I return to it. But my love for watercolour is still the same. It is my aspiration to find a completely new form, a new visual language for watercolour, as it were, because, looking at watercolour painting today, I surmise that most of it seems stuck somewhere between a formulaic form of realism and an odd revival of expressionism.
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