New Zealand Diary: Lake Manapouri via Garston
Another moving day. We drove from Queenstown via Garston, New Zealand’s most inland village, to Lake Manapouri.Read More →
Another moving day. We drove from Queenstown via Garston, New Zealand’s most inland village, to Lake Manapouri.Read More →
Summer day at Lake Wakatipu and in Glenorchy, plus an evening in Queenstown.Read More →
New Year’s Day. The drive from Wanaka to Queenstowm, through the Cardrona Valley, and a boat trip on Lake Wakatipu.Read More →
Driving along the Haast Pass, visiting the Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools, and the most beautiful walk of my life on New Year’s Eve in Wanaka.Read More →
National Kiwi Centre, Lake Ianthe, and Fox Glacier.Read More →
Following the Buller River to the Tasman Sea, touring the Pancake Rocks and visiting Hokitika.Read More →
We took a water taxi from Marahau to Anchorage and then walked back along the Abel Tasman Coastal Track. I think this day alone has given me enough inspiration for years…Read More →
We left Wellington and braved the Cook Strait. Then we sailed through the Marlborough Sounds and after our arrival in Picton on the South Island we drove through the Pinot Noir wine region towards Nelson and Richmond.Read More →
We spent Christmas Day following the Sculpture Walk in Wellington – everything was closed – and waited for the storm to roll in over the hills. And then we spent the whole of the next day at the Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand.Read More →
Tramping the Taranaki Falls Walk in the Tongariro National Park, and then Christmas in Mangaweka / Ruahine.Read More →
A tour of the Thermal Wonderland, Wai-o-Tapu, admiring the Huka Halls and an evening at Lake Taupo.Read More →
Exploring Katikati, the town of murals, poetry and birds…Read More →
Hunderwasser in New Zealand, moving day, and a day spent on the Coromandel Peninsula.Read More →
Summer holiday, relaxation and a visit to New Zealand’s first capital.Read More →
From Opononi to Rawene to Paihia in the Bay of Islands with a visit to Kerikeri along the way. I’m also sharing the making-of the painting „Rainbow Falls“.Read More →
Bird watching, tree hugging and sunset over Hokianga. This was the start of our road trip.Read More →
Our journey began in Auckland, where we got first impressions of what was to come and could fuel our anticipation. We got a sense of how many new things we would experience, be it nature, food, or the mentality of the people.Read More →
New Zealand, 14 December 2017 – 12 January 2018. My sister Birgitta and I had the great fortune to spend a month in New Zealand and explore this beautiful country. Would you like to experience this with me again? I’m posting a diary of our adventures.Read More →
Sechs Monate nach dem ersten Corona-Lockdown hatten wir dann doch endlich die Gelegenheit, eine Woche Urlaub zu machen: in Zeeland, was glücklicherweise nicht zum Risikogebiet erklärt wurde. Six months after the first Corona lockdown, we finally had the opportunity to take a week’s holiday: in Zeeland, which fortunately was not declared a risk area.Read More →
This is part of my portfolio – photos for future paintings, places I have seen and experienced and will paint for you! Today’s feature: pictures from my travels around parts of Devon.Read More →
I want to offer you an authentic experience, that is why I promise you that I will not paint a place that I have not seen. Creating a piece of art that captures your most cherished memories is a personal, even intimate process. I spent much of 2019 developing an immersive, fully-featured and personal offer which is based on your experiences and which also creates new ones. It is supposed to include travel, meeting personally, shared memories et cetera… Then the Corona pandemic happened. How can we work together now? With the situation the way it is, I decided to take you with me onRead More →
Let me tell you about my summer! 🙂 I had the opportunity to go to the Black Forest at short notice and work from there. This allowed me to extend my portfolio / repertoire by a few places that I would paint now – because as you know, I only paint places that I have already experienced myself.Read More →
A new destination in my portfolio! From now on Basel is on the list of places that I can/will paint for you. While working in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) for two weeks – Titisee and Freiburg – I had the opportunity to make a detour to Basel!Read More →
At the end of March I visited my sister in Stuttgart. Here are a few impressions of the long weekend. Ende März habe ich meine Schwester in Stuttgart besucht. Hier sind ein paar Eindrücke von dem verlängerten Wochenende.Read More →
Let me share a set of photos from my day trip to Cologne by bicycle – Who knows how many sunny and warm Sundays are left in 2017?Read More →
I managed to catch the Richter exhibition just in time, and I’d like to say a few sentences about the experience, but I’d also like to use the occasion to offer a few Cologne tips.Read More →
My family was somewhat nonplussed to get photos of pigs‘ heads, orange staircases, embroidered fabric, squirrel on tombstone, strange architecture, packaged sculptures and King Henry’s instructions for using the garderobe, „since to retain urine is hurtful to health“.1 Er, Katja??Read More →
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