Eros

When Egon met Erato.
21x29cm. Mixed media on paper.

Working now for a show called  ' Eros the Eternal Muse...'

 interesting theme, as I always enjoy Greek Mythology... Well Eratos ( the name coming from Eros ) is the muse of love poetry. And love poetry in 'painters language' was for me Egon Schiele... There is more to come !

Modern time Erato

Modern time Erato Mixed media and collage on paper 21x29cm.

Heart

Heartbeat No 2
Mixed pencil on  coffee stained paper ( 50x70cm) .
The background is also worked with office stamps. 

bowl

Small bowl. Pen & pencil on paper . 13x13cm.

Reise No 2

Reise No2 Mixed media on paper 18x23cm. 

Playing a little bit with the paper itself in crunching it and unfolding it again... After that was done, I just painted with ink on top of it, so the ink would set inside the folds. Would love now to work with wax on top.... but I am not in the studio.....

Albertine...

Albertine's hard life.
Mixed media and collage on paper. 21x29cm.

Still working on my great grand-mother ! but doing smaller work at the moment as there are school holidays at the moment and I am working at home and not in the studio ! Normally always a good time to get some new ideas ! And as always enjoying the sticky glue :-))

Encaustic

White bird and writing
Encaustic on recycled paper.
29x42cm.

Metamorphosis 120x60cm. Encaustic on 8 wood panels 

and here my latest feature on Redbubble...

Happy new year....

Homesickness tea and other remedies...
Mixed media on paper. 14x21cm.

Wishing you all a great new year, full of inspiration +  great ideas !!!

more hands

Great grand-mother's hands No2
Mixed media and collage 21x29cm

hands

Where I come from.
My grandfather ( from my mothers side ) is the first boy on the left side.

I love this photo... It shows such an old time, that really doesn't exist anymore, and it is not thaaaaaat long time ago. Where families got done a photo maybe once in their life time. No smiling.... carrying a flower... in contrast to our 'overload ' of photos ! I am fascinated by their faces and trying to read into them . And there she is: my great grand-mother with these unbelievable rough hands.... and her eyes ! Will do a little bit of work about that ! Now during the holidays is a good time. It won't be anything big and loud... Maybe just few drawings !

Great grand-mother's hands. drawing on paper. 20x20cm.

bad mood

Bad mood. sketch and collage on paper. 14x21cm.

.... Even in his new happy bathrobe, he was miserable.....
This is the picture that gets the most 'hits' on Redbubble.... It seems, that everybody knows this mood :-))

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everybody .... 

May 2011 be the year of love, freedom, happiness, peace and creativity !!!

portrait

Portrait of somebody I have never met 
mixed media ( collage, ink, coffee, whitening ) on paper. 25x25cm.

Just playing with paper, coffee, pen and whitening.... and having a little break from  shopping and baking cookies !

the spirit is .... one

The Spirit is (g) one Collage. 18x24cm.

It started with doing little  angels for the Christmas tree out of old notes and books. But than the negative shape was too good to just throw away ! So my little play ended up with a little play with words. 'the spirit is one'.... but now around Christmas time ( especially in the shopping centres), it feels more like the spirit is gone... !
But maybe it is also just me... missing a German Christmas with cold and snow and darkness.  Christmas in summer still doesn't really work for me ( not that it is hot here anyway... so that is not tooo bad :-)

where the wind takes me

Where the wind takes me Mixed media on paper ( 30x30cm.) 

This is also one painting of the 'the travel' series. It has been the idea of the work "the light in the distance beckons" that I painted after this one. I often work first small in sketchbooks or just on ' leftover' papers with no value, and when I like the result I paint it in bigger on 'serious' canvas. But often the 'translation ' doesn't work... I wonder why.... I suppose, because the spontaneity is lost, the feelings might be lost too.  Sometimes it works, but just if I am flexible enough to change even the idea....

The light in the distance beckons
Encaustic on linen 70x100cm.

A not very good photo of the work.... the suitcases are actually in rust ... I find encaustic extremely difficult to photograph ... sorry !!

the sea

Sea Triptych  Mixed media and encaustic on linen. 80x25cm.

Today something different... the sea again ! This one is done mostly in encaustic, as I try to express the movement of the sea through the roughness of the lines that I scratch into the melted wax. The next one , will be much bigger on more panels ... but different :-)

Receiving

Receiving
24x37cm. Mixed media on paper

Healer

Healer
Mixed media ( coffee, ink and acrylic ) + collage on paper
 42x28cm.

Sticky fingers the whole day ...:-)