The course
How does a general motif (such as a particular plant) give rise to a personal, idiosyncratic artistic interpretation?
We could use our individual perception, which is shaped by our sensations, our character and our biography. Or we could follow associations, distractions and detours to be surprised by images that we did not know before, but suspected somewhere inside ourselves.
In this workshop we will explore such artistic strategies through painting and drawing. My methodical exercises are personality-oriented and support the process of subjective image finding in a non-judgemental and playful atmosphere.
We will take our motifs from nature - far from botanical studies, close to the introspective. Nature can be a landscape, a forest, the sky, the animals and plants... But also our human body, our psyche, our body, our unconscious - our own piece of wilderness.
When we paint and draw, we make invisible aspects of our world visible. I love to get insight into these worlds! Every result is interesting and can be seen as a phenomenon of a creative experiment that has something to tell us - about ourselves and about the environment and society in which we move.