Painting reveals to me a consciousness that liberates and at the same time stimulates my intuition and creative work.

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As an autodidact, I came to painting late in life, although the deep passion for oil painting was already pronounced in my teenage years. In the search for my personal artistic language, I have gone through various processes. The confrontation with the overwhelming work of the American painter Mark Rothko finally brought about the move away from figurative painting towards non-objective painting and the > «metaphysical» colour field painting.

 

The challenge here is to unite harmony of colours and forms, spontaneous expression and meditative depth. Ultimately, it is the search for the connection of the sensual with the metaphysical, the creation of an introspective state of consciousness of silence.

 

In my further artistic development, I have increasingly turned to the informel of the > abstract-expressive squeegee technique, in which strong parallels to the > «metaphysical» colour field painting can be seen. The aspiration is the same, to create quiet, meditative and at the same time energetic, powerful images that lead to contemplation and enable an inner balance.