The landscape painting ‘Light' is the manifestation of my traveling through the landscape by painting. It is a landscape for people to enter but also the moment I withdrew from it. In this sense it is an open space. It is different from the ‘Space’ paintings in the ‘Tresspassing’ exhibition, which create small interwoven scenes in the midst of white space, opening paths and allowing people to defy gravity. ‘Light’ is grounded and no longer made explicitly for the audience. The nice thing about layers in digital painting is that the audience could choose any other moment in which to halt. In this way they could choose the moment of my traveling, which they would like to be in or keep.
The oil paintings above and the ink drawings bellow are from the series ‘Gohsts’, in which I developed paintings to be experienced within the different light and dark situations of a day. In the light the potraits are relatively bright and light almost disappearing whilst as the day becomes darker the body of the person becomes stronger and more manifest in the room.
‘Gates to Nowhere’ is the beginning and ‘Meeres Bild’ the end of a cycle of paintings called Spaces. These reflect my approach to the use of photography as part of my artistic process. They represent my first concrete development of landscape as motive in my art work. ‘Gates to Nowhere’ is not about the object or the place, but the possibility of transformation. The audience constructs their own place as they observe and follow the different traces of change and growth within the painting. It is a process of walking into nothingness becoming one with the place, rather than needing to arrive somewhere; just being without wanting. ‘Meeres Bild’ developed from my experience of the Indian Ocean in Goa. The light was particularly beautiful since a storm was brewing and the force of the ocean in which I was standing conveyed the sense of the cycle from birth to rebirth. In the painting I began with different views of the ocean and created three skylines of waves. This led to the impression of the waves becoming the atmosphere around the planet, thus leading the viewer from the inside far outside, rising.