My paintings live in the space between memory, perception and abstraction. I’m less interested in documenting a place or a moment than in capturing how it feels to remember it. Photographs and everyday experiences are usually my starting point, and they get transformed along the way into paintings that hold both recognition and openness at once.
I begin with an acrylic underpainting to work out composition, rhythm and tonal structure. From there, everything is built in oil, almost entirely with a palette knife. I work the surface in thick layers, scraping back, adding, reworking, until the image emerges through color, material and light rather than through detail. The traces of that process stay visible. They’re part of the finished painting, not something to smooth away.
Forms get reduced to their essential visual weight. Figures, architecture, landscapes remain identifiable, but simplified into broad color fields, contrasts and textured surfaces. The colors are often bold and non-naturalistic, creating an emotional charge rather than describing what things actually look like. What interests me isn’t reproducing what I see, but finding a visual language for an experience, one that leaves room for viewers to bring their own memories and associations to the image.
Biography
I am a painter, based in Berlin. I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and as a child I regularly took lessons with the local artist Klaus Gumpert near Magdeburg. For many years, painting moved into the background of my active practice: I trained as a nurse and worked for many years in intensive care, followed by a degree in ecology. Even during these years, art remained part of my life in one way or another.
Three years ago, I returned to painting with fresh focus and commitment. I am part of a studio community at KuBiz Raoul Wallenberg in Berlin, where I have access to studio space and an exchange with other artists. In September 2025, I took part in a group exhibition there, at Kubiz Raoul Wallenberg.
My background outside the art world, years spent in intensive care nursing and later studying ecology, continues to shape how I look at the world: closely, attentively, and with an awareness of fragility and transformation.