Interviews ↓

1.     Have you always wanted to pursue this profession? How did your photographic career begin?

My interest in photography began when I was young, portraying friends and family and capturing nature scenes on holidays. Inspired by the striking images of nature I discovered in National Geographic magazines. After doing a history study for a year, I decided to make a change. At that time, I never imagined becoming an artist, it wasn’t my initial intention, but I always felt a strong pull toward art and creative expression. This curiosity eventually led me to explore photography more seriously: I enrolled in courses, attended a photography school, and later continued my studies at an art academy in Amsterdam. I co-founded a company with a friend. Together, we worked as freelancers, creating portraits, videos, and interviews. For a few years, this was an exciting chapter, but when my friend decided to move on, I continued the work on my own. Over time, however, I realized that commercial projects left me with little space for true creativity. The work felt limiting, and I longed for a deeper, more personal form of artistic expression. This shift led me to abstract art, where I found the freedom I had been searching for, a space where experimentation, intuition, and imagination could guide me. Through abstraction, I finally felt I could create work that was not only visually engaging but also deeply connected to my own artistic vision.

2.     What inspires your abstract work?

My favorite style of art has always been abstract, and for as long as I can remember I have felt inspired and fascinated by it. When I first began working with photography, I wasn’t creating abstract images. However, I was drawn to elements such as linework, patterns, colors, and symmetry, and I tried to seek out those qualities within my early photographic practice. At that time, this interest often manifested in street photography, where I looked for structured forms and hidden compositions in the urban environment. Over the years, my work gradually shifted. I began to move away from the figurative and documentary aspects of street photography and toward a more experimental approach, where color and movement became central. Today, my practice is firmly rooted in abstraction. My photographs no longer aim to represent a clear subject, but instead to create vibrant, colorful, and imaginative worlds of their own, images that step beyond reality into a space of pure visual explorations.

3.     How do you choose what to photograph and what to abstract from it?

I am always searching for something special, a play of colors, the way light falls across a surface, or the subtle geometry of a shadow. At times, this search is intentional, but often it is guided by coincidence. Many of my works emerge from moments I simply stumble upon: a sudden beam of sunlight shining into a glass, or the unexpected presence of an object with striking colors in an ordinary setting. Discoveries like these fuel my process just as much as deliberate explorations. I also seek out places, gardens, forests, and natural landscapes where plants and flowers offer endless inspiration. I am drawn to shapes, linework, and color combinations, and I use them as building blocks to create something beyond representation. Through play with focus, movement, and framing, creating abstract artworks. 

4.     What specific techniques do you employ, for example, long exposure, ICM?

I work with a wide range of experimental techniques in my photography, always searching for new ways to break away from traditional representation. Some of the methods I use include long exposure, intentional camera movement (ICM), deliberate unfocusing, and macro photography. In addition to these techniques, I often incorporate materials such as mirrors, glass, and water into my process. Through play with focus, movement, and framing, these elements transform into collaborators, bending light, distorting forms, and creating unpredictable reflections.

5.     What message do you want to convey with your photography?

My photographs are intended to provoke a visceral reaction rather than convey a literal meaning. Hoping that each viewer will form their own emotions and interpretations and see them in the work. Ultimately, art is about possibility, the endless potential to look beyond the surface and search for the abstract landscapes that exist in every moment of life. Hoping to capture the invisible and offer a new perspective on the world around us.

6.     What are your future dreams as a photographer? 

Looking ahead, I hope to gain more international exposure for my work and to collaborate with galleries that exhibit at art fairs around the world. Showing my art in these contexts would allow me to connect with a broader audience and place my work in dialogue with a diverse range of artistic practices. At the same time, I truly enjoy participating in local art markets, where I can meet people face-to-face, both fellow artists and those who simply enjoy engaging with art. These encounters are meaningful to me; having conversations, exchanging thoughts, and hearing that someone connects with my work is always inspiring and deeply rewarding. Another aspiration of mine is to share my work more widely through prints. Being able to place my images in the hands and homes of others, where they become part of someone’s daily environment, feels like a very personal and powerful way of connecting.

How did your artistic journey begin?

My artistic journey began with the newspaper headline "Picasso has died."

This early impression (I don't know why) led me to explore painting and the performing arts, but I decided to study architecture, which offered me artistic and creative opportunities.

The performing arts, such as painting or drawing, have always been a balance to architecture.



Where do you find your inspiration?

Inspired by a specific theme such as nature, landscape, or the human body, this is then distorted through a bold brushstroke.

The original theme is only hinted at.

Every viewer finds something different in my paintings and is inspired to think.



Preferred techniques or materials?

I acquired a wide range of techniques. My form of expression ranges from very planned works to spontaneous, emotional explosions of color and form. I implement these in various ways using work tools such as spatulas, sponges, painting knives, and brushes. I achieve a wide range of effects and moods with oil and acrylic paints, chalk, ink, and much more, which spontaneously flow into my works.

The preferred materials are realized on canvas, heavy paper like Fabriano 200 g, watercolor paper/rag paper, kraft paper or MDF board.

My work ranges from small to large formats.



Do you follow a process or work instinctively?

My art is initially of something tangible or figurative. Starting from reality, it is then abstracted through instinctive, intuitive painting.

The brushstrokes are immediate and instinctive, but are balanced by a strong compositional awareness that brings order to the apparent chaos.



What message do you want to convey through your art?

My main concern is to evoke positive feelings and harmony in both myself and the viewer.

My abstract, expressionist painting focuses on expressing these feelings and emotions through shapes, lines, and colors.

This can or should evoke an emotional response in the viewer through dynamism and spontaneity.



• Your future dreams as an artist?

As an artist, I live for my work. I often feel this irrepressible curiosity to engage intensely with my surroundings, to ask questions and find answers...

I dream of recognition and appreciation for my work and of becoming known to a larger audience. 

• How did your artistic journey begin?
I‘m a german artist, born in Munich in 1956, now living near Wiesbaden (D) and in Aarau (CH). Inspired by my father's artistic work, I began drawing and painting as a teenager in 1972. I deepened my artistic skills and knowledge by studying art and sports at Kassel University to become a teacher. Severel years before my retirement I devoted myself more intensively to my own artistic work again and developed a way of an informal artistic expression.  

• Where do you find inspiration?
My drive to be artistically active arises, on the one hand, from the need to process my experiences and the associated feelings and moods and on the other hand, from the interest in exploring the interactions between inner sensitivities, the creative process and its results.
A special motif lies in impressions, circumstances and places that got important to me in different ways. So I’m looking for materials, surfaces or structures at different meaningful places that can be used to express the assoziated feelings.

• Preferred techniques or materials?
I take “imprints”, rubbings, or embossings of found objects, which I often work on with watercolors but also with pastels, acrylic paints and printing inks. On the other hand I create abstract drawings and paintings in the form of emotional traces. Brushes and drawing pencils as well as natural materials, discarded items of clothing, sponges, twigs, sticks and squeegees serve as tools.

• Do you follow a process or work by instinct?
Even if there is a basic idea, I usually do not follow a certain path in the creation process and I always welcome coincidences. Without having a preconceived idea, I am usually guided by the movements of the tool, the surface or by music at all, but there are some works too in which a guiding idea sets or determines the process up to the end - for example, when I want to express my emotions on current socially relevant topics.

• What message do you wish to share through your art?
Since 2014 I have been working largely in an informal manner to process personal emotions and experiences of my life, but sometimes abstract figurative elements also find their way into my works.The second intention is to create an ästhetic adventure that inspires a viewer to get in contact to his own experiences and emotions and that never gets boring.
This is one reason, why the character of my artworks is mostly fragmentary, sketchy, torn or deconstructive, often with many layers of colors and lines.The viewer should have fun to look longer and closer and stimulate his own associations and fantasies. But for sure this has anything to do with my work as a teacher for children with special emotional and social needs too.

• Your future dreams as an artist?
I know that it‘s difficult to become successful in the art market at my age and without a longer artistic career, but I hope that I make some people happy with my artwork and it would be fine if anyone likes to purchase one.
If not, I’ll go on working, mainly for my personal pleasure, looking forward to honest and nice feedback and opportunities of exhibitions in interesting galleries.

• How did your artistic journey begin?

My artistic career began 13 years ago. I was attending a landscape architecture course and
realized that working as a landscape architect wasn't creative enough for me. During my break,
I called a painting school down the street that I'd been circling for a while. In this course, I learned about different materials and, in particular, the freedom of abstraction. I quickly immersed myself in the processes and learned a lot. I learned about materials like marble dust, wax, and lime putty, about pigments, and about liquid and solid materials.

It was only a little later that I began to use acrylics, acrylic inks, and much more.
For about two years now, I've been pursuing art more intensively and am increasingly moving
toward abstract landscapes. I'm increasingly working with acrylics, but occasionally with marble dust or other textures like paper and lime putty.

• Where do you find inspiration?

Like many artists, I find most of my inspiration in nature. But also in everyday objects, like the detail of an old wall, a close look at pebbles, or simply in beautiful fabric combinations or patterns. Much of my inspiration lies within me. In my heart, my soul, my thoughts, my dreams.

• Preferred techniques or materials?

I increasingly use acrylic, but also marble dust, various papers, lime putty, oil pastels, and watercolor pencils. I often enjoy combining different materials or colors. I'm fascinated by the combination of different techniques.

• Do you follow a process or work by instinct?

At first, I follow purely instinctively. After the instinctive phase, I see what's there. 

Then I decide spontaneously and/or consider how I can improve the artwork. Where something is missing, where I need to bring more calmness or dynamism.

• What message do you wish to share through your art?

I want to convey more beauty and, at the same time, ruptures. My pictures often contain both.
I am fascinated by the diversity of people, by good and evil. How both can exist, often even in
a single person. How people can protect nature in so many different ways, sometimes with enormous effort. But also with how much indifference they destroy it without thinking. I want to focus on beauty. Always make it the center of attention and evoke longings. But every now and then the ugly quietly emerges. Not always. Sometimes. In the end, art should bring joy to the viewer. And inspire a little reflection.


• Your future dreams as an artist?

I want to become more visible with my art. I want to develop much further.
I want to paint many pictures. Connect with others who know what happens when you embark on the process of painting a picture. I want to find and consolidate my own visual language! And yes, I'll say it out loud: I would like to sell more pictures. For more of my paintings to hang in other people's homes and bring joy there. And I wish I had more time for all the colors, shapes, and ideas I still have to bring to the canvas or other surface!