portrait

Portrait in black and white (and a little bit red) 
21x29cm.
Mixed media + mixed feelings + collage on paper.

Thinking about getting into linocut again .... yes, good idea... linocut mixed with collage ..... mmm inspiring !!!

ja- nein

Ja-nein. Mixed media on paper. 21x29cm.

For a whole day I was thinking about putting this image here..... As it is a very personal image.... and than again   :  Most of my work is personal. When I studied I was taught very much to just paint what I really feel or have experienced myself. I was in that time always tempted to paint 'old masters themes' like 'the death and the girl' or other art historical very heavy 'stuff' .
 Later on , I understood more what my  teachers  meant, as these paintings often stay on the surface, because you just 'technically' paint the painting and your feelings stay outside of the work.

another collage

HEAL. 
Mixed media and collage on paper. 21x29 cm.

This is about the journey that I am just going through.... about ... waiting , resting, hoping and finally :

 h e a l i n g

collage

'I will teach you about the world' 
Mixed media and collage on paper. 

 At the moment , I just love to have glue on my hands.... Starting with just a feeling and working with sticky fingers until it's finished. I always used to look a bit ' down ' to collage, I don't even know why !
Funny , that all my work in the last 5 years (at least) always was done on a collage. I always 'work' on the canvas or paper before I actually paint on it . Because I dislike white paper or even worse white canvas. So I always glue newspaper and leftover canvas  pieces on it , before painting. And true: I some times enjoy doing that more , than the actual painting... So maybe I should stay with collage for a while ! :-)

bowl

Bowl. 25x25cm. sketch

Inner Freedom

Inner Freedom N°2.
Mixed media on material+panel. 

60x90cm.           

I am just coming back from a small exhibition of my work at the East Language Centre in Melbourne. It is always such a pleasure to have people really looking at your work and also so tense. And of course a lot of questions..... questions that are easy to answer and questions that are impossible to answer. A lot of
"why's?".... and some times I have to say : " I don't know, it just happened that way ..." And than I have to think of this artist ( can not remember WHO it was ... maybe someone can help me here ) :
" It might be coincidence that it got onto the painting , but it is NOT a coincidence  that it stayed there" ...

Discovering Melbourne's secrets

Discovering Melbourne's secrets.
18x108cm. Mixed media on paper.

The 15 works together ( few of them I had shown over the last couple of weeks. ) for the art show named 
'the secret life of the city' .
I chose some of Melbourne's secrets ( well secrets in my eyes ) or the different sides that makes Melbourne Melbourne !!!

Portrait

Portrait . 25x25cm. Mixed media and collage on paper.

I have always liked to draw faces, old faces and faces with 'life traces'. I like to 'scribble' faces and the face suddenly appears out of the lines. Sometimes I am even surprised  myself who appears out of this nearly 'meditative' drawings.

'Dreaming Phantasy Bird' 
50x 80 cm. Mixed media + collage  on paper

"Charlotte wished to fly" Mixed media on paper.  70x100cm ( framed )

The paper used, is the paper that protected my working table for a couple of months ! The coffee stains and working traces just take the 'fear of the good white empty' paper away and gives me inspiration….

Madame Papillon  21x 30cm. Acrylic on paper.

element fire

Element Fire Encautic, collage  and acrylic on linen . 76x76cm.

Landscape

Landscape. Mixed media on paper.

This is the sort of work I would like to do more again in future. 

Nest

Nest No 1. Encaustic on paper. 28x39cm.

Something a little bit different today. That was the original first bird's nest. done in Encaustic on paper. I just liked to reheat the wax and to scratch inside it. A try..... but I could imagine a series of them . 5 or 6 together all in different colours , but always with the same square with words in different languages and a drawing inside the wax.

collage

'Come and let's have some fun on the weekend'

Mixed media and collage on paper. 20x14cm.

Today just some 'fun work' ( nooooooooooo painting is not all the time fun !!!) This collage was just about glueing, cutting, enjoying and no intention or 'trying to same something' except for : Come and let's have fun on the weekend.... yes, actually WHAT should I do on the weekend ??

2 more sketches ....

Kookaburra. Mixed media on paper. 15x15cm.

Degrave Str. Sketch on paper. 15x15cm

Well I have done the 15 paintings of 'discovering Melbourne's secret for the upcoming show 'the secret life of the city' I will just have to put them together and cutting the mat board ! Which is going to be a real task .... 15 windows in order ( well, as straight as possible...) will see will see......

Schutzschild

Schutzschild. Mixed media and collage on paper . 25x25cm

Not a very friendly painting today....  'Schutzschild' meaning a protection shield in english ! But I like that in German it is ONE word. The brown paper is actually my lunch bag ! And I don't think I have to explain the painting...

sketches

Ned was here.... 15x15cm sketch

Collingwood 15x15cm. sketch