Jedes Jahr bin ich aufs neue inspiriert von der Schönheit der Bäume im Herbst, und ich sammle auch immer wieder die Blätter und benutze sie zum Dekorieren oder für Fotos. Hin und wieder werde ich auch mal kreativ damit – hier habe ich mich zum Beispiel von einem Zeitschriftenartikel inspirieren lassen.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 – a repository for future paintings. Places I have seen and experienced and will paint for you! Today’s feature: BaltrumRead More →
Dies ist Teil meines Portfolios – Fotos für zukünftige Gemälde, Orte, die ich gesehen und erlebt habe und für Sie malen kann! Der heutige Beitrag: Usedom, Ostsee.Read More →
Take a turn around Stonehenge and Salisbury with me, world heritage sites that are probably on most people’s bucket lists.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: DevonRead More →
This is part of my portfolio – photos for future paintings, places I have seen and experienced and will paint for you!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 →
This is the story of the picture I painted on the occasion of my parents’ diamond wedding. Dies ist die Geschichte von dem Bild, dass ich anlässlich der Diamantenen Hochzeit meiner Eltern gemalt habe.Read More →
Ich sammle gerade auf Pinterest Design-Ideen in Rot und Grün. Da die Adventszeit und Weihnachten wie immer schneller kommen als man denkt, bietet es sich ja an, frühzeitig Ideen und Inspirationen zu finden.Read 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 →
My sister Birgitta and I will open house to ‘Auszeiten und Erneuerungen’ (time-outs and renewals), celebrating – among other things – our road-trip around New Zealand and the enrichment it brought to our lives.Read More →
Inspired by our walk along the edge of the lava flow at the Tongariro National Park.Read More →
As promised, I’d like to show you the evolution of some of my North Island paintings, too, and I’m going to start with ‘Bay of Islands No. 1’.Read More →
In honour of the beginning of autumn, I’m sharing a set of pictures about/from Vienna which I last visited during the most glorious autumn you can imagine!Read More →
This week: Making of “Wai-O-Tapu Ngakoro”, my ‘Free Friday’ at the Flora and the Cathedral in Cologne and a bicycle tour to the Augustusburg & Falkenlust Palaces in Brühl – a lot of world heritage this week 🙂Read More →
In dieser Woche: eine Tour durch Köln, Fortschritt bei meinen Neuseeland-Gemälden und ein Ausflug zur Museum Insel Hombroich. This week: a tour around Cologne, progress with my New Zealand paintings and a trip to the Museum Island Hombroich.Read More →
The Evolution of | Die Entstehung von ‘Summer’s Day in Glenorchy’ Today I’d like to show you the evolution of ‘Summer’s Day in Glenorchy’. Even more than ‘Fox Glacier‘, which I wrote about the last time, it combines a more traditional approach to pastel painting (which still fascinates me, because I have done that very rarely until New Zealand) and my ‘signature style’ of emphasising shapes and textures in a more expressionist manner.Read More →
The Evolution of | Die Entstehung von ‘Fox Glacier’ After I shared the making-of of ‘Sound of Silence No. 1’ I received some requests to post more of this kind of behind the scenes material about the other paintings as well. So today, I am going to show you the process of painting ‘Fox Glacier’.Read More →
It’s coming very soon 🙂 Great news! The New Zealand Art Experience has been taking shape behind the scenes for a while now. You may have seen some work in progress in my Instagram account – and I have shown glimpses of my sketchbook and watercolour experiments, too. But now I am preparing to show the first series of ‘real’ paintings!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 →
The finale of 40 Days of Watercolour and a weekend in Stuttgart. Das Finale von 40 Tage Aquarell und ein Wochenende in Stuttgart.Read More →
40 Days of Watercolour and the first spring walks. 40 Tage Aquarell und die ersten Frühlingsspaziergänge.Read More →
40 Days of Watercolour, winter walks and a visit to Cologne. 40 Tage Aquarell, Winterspaziergänge und Besuch in Köln.Read More →
40 Days of Watercolour, winter walks and my birthday. 40 Tage Aquarell, Winterspaziergänge und mein Geburtstag.Read More →
40 Tage lang jeden Tag ein kleines Aquarell….. 40 Days of Watercolour…Read More →
In dieser Woche: Pazifische Inspirationen, Winterspaziergang und der Beginn von “40 Days of Watercolour”. This week: Pacific inspirations, winter walk and the start of “40 Days of Watercolour”.Read More →
I love all my art, of course, but sometimes it really is a special joy to know the people who ‘adopt’ a painting. In the case of “London Eye” I was very happy that it found its new home with fellow London enthusiasts 🙂Read More →
This week I started to process my impressions of New Zealand. At first in watercolour. Diese Woche habe ich begonnen, meine Eindrücke von Neuseeland zu verarbeiten. Erst einmal in Aquarell.Read More →
Unexpected snow, preparing for New Zealand and preparing Christmas presents. Unerwarteter Schnee, Vorbereitung auf Neuseeland und Vorbereitung meiner Weihnachtsgeschenke.Read More →
Kurzer Besuch in Köln, Verkauf eines Gemäldes und eine weitere Umwelt-Demo – “Tunnel statt Stelze” #LevMussLebenRead More →
Here are some impressions of this week / Hier sind ein paar Eindrücke von dieser Woche.Read More →
In dieser Woche: Experimente und “botanische Fotos” mit meinen Visual Morning Pages und Herbstspaziergang mit Skizzenbuch. This week: Experiments and “botanical photos” with my Visual Morning Pages and autumn walk with sketchbook.Read More →
My brother and I visited Malberg and Kyllburg (Eifel, Germany). Take a turn around Malberg Castle and the “Iron Garden” in autumn with us!Read More →
Here are some impressions of this week / Hier sind ein paar Eindrücke von dieser Woche.Read More →
Herbst-Impressionen aus dem Garten und meinem Skizzenbuch / Autumn impressions from the garden and my sketchbook.Read More →
In dieser Woche: Experimente mit meinen Visual Morning Pages und ein Besuch bei der Leverkusener Kunstnacht. This week: experiments with my Visual Morning Pages and a visit to the Leverkusen Art Night.Read More →
This week: my Visual Morning Pages, a glimpse of my garden, and a new product idea… Diese Woche: meine Visual Morning Pages, ein Blick in meinen Garten und eine neue Produktidee…Read More →
This week’s Visual Morning Pages / Die “Visual Morning Pages” von dieser Woche:Read More →
The beginnings of my ‘Visual Morning Pages’ Have you ever wondered what an artist’s daily creative practise looks like? How they start their day? What helps them get into the ‘right’ frame of mind and/or over creative blocks? Then here is a glimpse into part of my morning routine.Read More →
This week: a glimpse into my studio, one of my daily walks and a failed experiment… Diese Woche: ein Blick in mein Atelier, einer meiner täglichen Spaziergänge und ein missglücktes Experiment…Read More →
Buying art supplies and a rally for our environmentRead 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 →
Here are some impressions of what I was up to this week / Hier sind einige Eindrücke von dem, was ich diese Woche erlebt und gemacht habe.Read More →
In addition to all the wanderlust, and the desire to see the world, I have noticed a need to connect with my home and to explore the area around my ‘base camp’. This is one of the places I rediscovered: the Japanese Garden in Leverkusen.Read More →
This is a painting that sort of embodies my personal story over the last six years, 2011-2017, (and for those of you who know me a little more closely, it’s no miracle that this painting is about London).Read More →
Would you like to have a real taste of the Middle Ages? Visit Zons! Halfway between Cologne and Düsseldorf, the village has existed since the 7th century. Maybe even earlier. Archaeologists discovered Merovingian artifacts…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 →
In eight months (it is April 2017 as I’m starting this post) I will be going on a journey that has been on my bucket list for a long time. My sister and I will travel to New Zealand for a month. The anticipation is thrilling! And in order to bridge those eight months, I will spend a lot of time planning. Because that’s – well, not half but – part of the fun! Calling for recommendations Will you help me pass the wait?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”.* Er, Katja??Read More →
