ABOUT
I am a painter from Fürth (Germany), navigating through the intersections of realism and abstraction. I have a background in graphic design. Although I started drawing and doodling at a young age, it wasn’t until the onset of the pandemic that I began my journey into actual painting, making the most of quarantine and reduced working hours to explore my artistic expression. This exploration quickly escalated from purely digital works to acrylic and eventually to oil painting. I’m always looking for new inspiration, to grow and evolve as an artist and i’m grateful for the opportunity to share my art with others.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Art Prize 2024 by Cultural Foundation Sparkasse Karlsruhe
March 8th to 27th, 2024
4th Fürth Open Air Gallery 2024
June 30th – September 29th, 2024
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am drawn to the nuanced balance between realism and expressive art. While pure hyperrealism and simplistic naive expressions don’t captivate me, I find my inspiration in the dynamic interplay between the two extremes. My work strives to create images that mimic the appearance of photographs from a distance, yet reveal their painterly essence up close, with distinct expressive marks.
My primary focus is on portraying people, drawn to the challenge of achieving realistic depictions. The human figure, particularly facial expressions, offers a rich canvas for exploration.
My creative process begins with a carefully chosen or self-created reference image. Through an initial underpainting, I introduce expressive marks that contribute to the final piece. After employing large, simplified shadow shapes, I block in key areas to establish basic values, giving the image an initial three-dimensional quality. As I progress, I intentionally blur edges, embracing elements of chance by selectively disrupting parts of the image. These perceived errors may either be corrected or embraced as lucky accidents. The iterative cycle of blurring, correcting, and resetting edges continues as the image evolves into its finished form.
This is my approach to the contemporary genre of abstracted realism.