About my paintings:
Please look. You can find many stories if you look for a while. Find your view of my painting, another person might see a different story. I like to paint interesting views of my Someplace at Somewhere. Somebody called it “Romantic art”, another “Fantasy”. For me they are mostly images that occur. It’s like humming no particular song or like walking a dream. They are dreams I harvest on my canvas.
My paintings are mostly in oils as I like the way oil paints flow and mix. Sometimes I use a fast drying base of acrylics I finish with oils for the finer details. The last applications are usually several transparent glazes so the various base colours are filtered in different ways.
I think paintings shouldn’t need an explanation. Be captured by what you see.
About the process of painting:
I mostly paint fine oil paintings. It’s a slow process. Painting and moving ideas around the canvas. Most paintings take months to finish, but some smaller ones can be matter of only a few days. For the larger paintings I need days to get started. That’s the intuitive part. It’s like fishing, you suddenly catch one. After that it’s mostly just painting what I found. Sometimes I get stuck again and then I’ll have to search or “fish” for the next stage I know is in there somewhere!
About subjects:
Often, I paint ruins and landscapes. Natural elements are at the heart of my work. I like to walk in the beautiful landscapes of home and love to travel to Australia and North-America. In my paintings I combine landscapes and subjects that I have seen with things that might exist, so you might call it fantasy.
About Photography
Like painting, photography is about composition. Unlike painting, timing and the living world are essential. A photo is made within seconds, but you can study a photo for hours. Sometimes I crop my photo, or correct the lighting a little, but mostly I try to catch a moment as it is. There’s beauty within a flash of time.
No digital art
Even though I love digital photography, I’m not keen on digital art or AI-generated art, because they produce fantastic pictures without taking into account the mental and physical process, the effect of light, skill, moods, time or limitations of materials. Painting and photography are crafts and I hope the public will learn to discern the difference between digitally produced imagery and hand crafted artworks, so both will be able to exist and perhaps even overlap in certain areas.
About labels:
I would prefer not to label my work. Everybody has a different perception and has the freedom to experience their view. It’s all about the viewer. Everyone has the right to their opinion. I wish that the owners of a painting or the viewer of a photo appreciate it for what it is to them and cherish it for that reason. I hope the picture earns it’s place in their world.
