A detail shot of “Ozorian”, the painting I started in acrylics at the 2015 Ozora Festival.
Category: Painting
The Muse – Hight Quality Canvas Print
“The Muse” was one of my painting hight points for 2014. I have been long looking forward to being able to offer it as a high quality, high resolution print. Now that day has arrived.
Böcklin’s Island Series
It is true that I am fascinated by Arnold Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”. My intent is to create a series of the painting in varying forms and colours.
More Paint on the Horizon
Here is my latest work on leaf metal, “On the Horion”, 30 x 25 cm. With this work I am exploring what I can achieve with the oil glazes on leaf metal.
Strange and Rare Colours
“The Colorful Stories of 5 Obsolete Art Pigments” provides some curious short stories about some rare or no longer available oil colours that were once all the rage in their own time.
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Juxtaposition – When New Ideas Happen
Those moments of empty minded clarity, when not much is happening, lounging on the obligatory comfy studio sofa, looking at the artwork. In my Vienna studio, two unrelated paintings suddenly took on a new meaning together.
The Light Fantastic – NovaBelgica Gallery
This past Easter weekend artist and gallery owner Tim Roosen paid me a visit in my studio while he was here on business in Berlin.
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Tipping Point – Bringing the Painting to Completion
I sit on my comfy studio sofa and contemplate the day’s work at the easel. “When do I know when a painting is finished?”, I’ve often been asked.
Posted in: Artwork, Painting, Technique, Work in Progress
The Value of Your Tone
Via Chet Zar on Twitter I read a very illuminating and insightful article, “Grey Matter” by Matthew Innis, on managing tonal values in your paintings.
Art in Hamburg with Dennis Konstantin
Last week I made my way to Hamburg to have a number of my paintings scanned and spend some time with friend and colleague in artistic crimes, Dennis Konstantin.
Creative in Berlin on a Friday Night
In the basement for the past three months a collection of UV artists from the Sinneswandeln project have been busy building a black light mini-golf course.
Fantastic Visions Exhbition Berlin
2010 starts with the first group exhibition project for Fantastic Visions. I will be exhibiting my artwork with Dennis Konstantin and Micha Colory Krebs at the Lichtenberger Kultschule in Berlin.
Cité Création – Creative Stadt
This Summer I was called up to work on a mural project that would ultimately span two cities. We worked in the Lyon studios and then completed it in Berlin.
Zdzislaw Beksinski Painting Details
Erik Heyninck has posted a selection of Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski’s paintings with some very fine detailed enlargements.
Madeline Von Foerster – Waldkammer – Strychnin Gallery Exhibition
With much anticipation that I awaited Madeline Von Foerster’s exhibition at Strychnin Gallery in Berlin. Her “Waldkammer” series consists of nine paintings that explore humanity’s often destructive relationship with nature, executed in the manner of the Old Masters.
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Madeline Von Foerster’s Amazon Cabinet
The most entertaining story was how one of Madeline Von Foerster’s artworks, “Amazon Cabinet” was held by customs in Frankfurt Germany, because they thought that it was an Old Master’s artwork and not painted by a living 36 year old American artist.
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A Meeting of Minds and Fantastic Visions
After all of this time getting to know Delvin over email and Skype chat sessions, I would finally get to meet him face to face. He was making his way to England to meet with Brigid Marlin of the Society for the Art of Imagination (AOI) to discuss assisting them with their Inscape magazine. I was very happy to offer him a place to stay in my studio while on his travels.
Chet Zar
A social evening at the opening of Chet Zar’s exhibition at Strychnin Gallery London. Strychnin Gallery has published a catalogue of his artwork.
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Panorama Museum – Werner Tübke
This week I travelled with my girlfriend Anja Brinkmann to the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany. I had discovered the museum on the internet, and became interested when I noted some of the artists that had been exhibited there.…
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