Two weeks into my journey through California, I find myself surrounded by new impressions: inspiring gallery visits, remarkable museums in the Los Angeles area, conversations about art, the vastness of the landscape, and the architectural treasures of Palm Springs.
I have been looking, listening, discovering—and gathering ideas that will undoubtedly find their way into my work.
At the same time, life in my studio back in Germany continues. From afar, I have had the wonderful privilege of seeing several of my paintings find their way into new collections. Knowing that these works are beginning another chapter in new surroundings fills me with happiness and gratitude.
Movement in two directions: while I travel towards new experiences, my paintings travel out into the world.
Thank you to everyone who follows, supports, collects, and believes in my work. California continues—and so does the story.
#LosAngeles #ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #CaliforniaInspiration #PalmSpringsArchitecture
Two weeks into my journey through California, I find myself surrounded by new impressions: inspiring gallery visits, remarkable museums in the Los Angeles area, conversations about art, the vastness of the landscape, and the architectural treasures of Palm Springs.
I have been looking, listening, discovering—and gathering ideas that will undoubtedly find their way into my work.
At the same time, life in my studio back in Germany continues. From afar, I have had the wonderful privilege of seeing several of my paintings find their way into new collections. Knowing that these works are beginning another chapter in new surroundings fills me with happiness and gratitude.
Movement in two directions: while I travel towards new experiences, my paintings travel out into the world.
Thank you to everyone who follows, supports, collects, and believes in my work. California continues—and so does the story.
#LosAngeles #ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #CaliforniaInspiration #PalmSpringsArchitecture
CALIFORNIA, AGAIN.
Some places become part of your visual vocabulary long before you realize it.
California has been part of mine since 1990, when I lived in San Diego. The light, the scale, the strange mix of beauty and excess — and the palms. Always the palms.
They have kept resurfacing in my work ever since.
In 2021, I returned to those early California years through painting, creating a series shaped by memory rather than documentation: fragments of places, atmospheres and experiences reappearing decades later, transformed by time.
Most of the works from that series have since entered private collections — many of them, fittingly, in the US.
Now I’m back in Hollywood.
And suddenly, sharing these paintings again feels different. Almost like the distance between then and now has collapsed for a moment.
A full circle moment. 🌴
THIS AIN’T HOLLYWOOD
165 × 165 cm
PACIFIC PALISADES
165 × 165 cm
Two of the few remaining works from the series — and still available.
California keeps finding its way back into my work. Or maybe it never left.
#ContemporaryPainting #ContemporaryArt #CaliforniaArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors
CALIFORNIA, AGAIN.
Some places become part of your visual vocabulary long before you realize it.
California has been part of mine since 1990, when I lived in San Diego. The light, the scale, the strange mix of beauty and excess — and the palms. Always the palms.
They have kept resurfacing in my work ever since.
In 2021, I returned to those early California years through painting, creating a series shaped by memory rather than documentation: fragments of places, atmospheres and experiences reappearing decades later, transformed by time.
Most of the works from that series have since entered private collections — many of them, fittingly, in the US.
Now I’m back in Hollywood.
And suddenly, sharing these paintings again feels different. Almost like the distance between then and now has collapsed for a moment.
A full circle moment. 🌴
THIS AIN’T HOLLYWOOD
165 × 165 cm
PACIFIC PALISADES
165 × 165 cm
Two of the few remaining works from the series — and still available.
California keeps finding its way back into my work. Or maybe it never left.
#ContemporaryPainting #ContemporaryArt #CaliforniaArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors
Floral Encounters, suddenly
150 × 120 cm
Sold — and now part of a private collection in Austria. 🔴
I still remember the raw, almost unrestrained energy with which I made this painting: the rough charcoal lines, the physical force, the complete trust in the process. That energy never disappears. It remains embedded in the work.
I’m very happy about the many years of trusting collaboration with Ideel Art — and grateful to see this piece continue its journey in a new home.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryPainting #PrivateCollection
Floral Encounters, suddenly
150 × 120 cm
Sold — and now part of a private collection in Austria. 🔴
I still remember the raw, almost unrestrained energy with which I made this painting: the rough charcoal lines, the physical force, the complete trust in the process. That energy never disappears. It remains embedded in the work.
I’m very happy about the many years of trusting collaboration with Ideel Art — and grateful to see this piece continue its journey in a new home.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryPainting #PrivateCollection
APPROXIMATE ANIMALS
Painting from what remains — fragments of encounters, remembered forms, fleeting impressions. Not observation, but intuition; not depiction, but the residue of something once seen.
A new series in progress.
60 × 80 cm
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #IntuitivePainting #当代艺术 #当代艺术收藏
APPROXIMATE ANIMALS
Painting from what remains — fragments of encounters, remembered forms, fleeting impressions. Not observation, but intuition; not depiction, but the residue of something once seen.
A new series in progress.
60 × 80 cm
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #IntuitivePainting #当代艺术 #当代艺术收藏
5 days abstract art workshop.
Thank you to the Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall for the trust and for creating such an inspiring environment for artistic development — and to all the wonderful artists who brought their openness, energy and courage into the studio.
I’m leaving this week inspired myself — and already looking forward to the next workshops in Germany and the US.
#KunstakademieBadReichenhall #ContemporaryPainting #ArtWorkshop #AbstractPainting
5 days abstract art workshop.
Thank you to the Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall for the trust and for creating such an inspiring environment for artistic development — and to all the wonderful artists who brought their openness, energy and courage into the studio.
I’m leaving this week inspired myself — and already looking forward to the next workshops in Germany and the US.
#KunstakademieBadReichenhall #ContemporaryPainting #ArtWorkshop #AbstractPainting
“Painting is not separate from life, it is one. It is like asking, do I want to live? My answer is yes, and I paint.” Lee Krasner
I couldn’t say it any better. A wonderful sentence that holds so much truth.
Painting as an affirmation of life — every day, again and again. The energy, the gesture, the physical act of making, the freedom of responding to what happens on the canvas.
Coastal Roads
80 × 60 cm
How do you feel about Krasner’s words?
#UKart #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #WomenInArt #californiaart
“Painting is not separate from life, it is one. It is like asking, do I want to live? My answer is yes, and I paint.” Lee Krasner
I couldn’t say it any better. A wonderful sentence that holds so much truth.
Painting as an affirmation of life — every day, again and again. The energy, the gesture, the physical act of making, the freedom of responding to what happens on the canvas.
Coastal Roads
80 × 60 cm
How do you feel about Krasner’s words?
#UKart #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractPainting #WomenInArt #californiaart