'Curiosities, Remnants and Communication Problems'

About

I am a German and Britsh painter and live and work in London. I started my artistic career in the early 1980s in Hanover. From 1978 - 1982 I worked as an assistant and practitioner at the studio of the German artist Leiv Warren Donnan's. After completing an MA in Philosophy and German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988, I decided to focus on my art. I am an abstract painter in the broadest sense. I usually work in series that pursue a specific topic. In the painting process, I often use surrealist or automatic techniques such as frottage, collage, decalcomania, grattage or stamping techniques. Popular materials are varnish, ashes, sand, fabric, pigment, pastel, Chinese ink, emulsion, and acrylic on a wide variety of bases such as wood, felt, roof slate, rice paper or conventional canvases. The pictures are often ‘semiabstract’, i.e. they have an organic, dystopian or planetary ductus (figurative reference).