Amid all the wonderful travels and inspiring encounters here in the United States, life at my studio in Germany continues to unfold.
This beautiful triptych will soon find its home in a private collection in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The thought makes me both happy and proud.
As I travel, I gather inspiration and energy from the places I see and the people I meet. That energy finds its way into my work—and through my paintings, it continues its journey into the homes of my collectors.
What a beautiful thought: the journey doesn’t end at the studio.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #Triptych #ArtCollectors #manuelakarinknaut
Amid all the wonderful travels and inspiring encounters here in the United States, life at my studio in Germany continues to unfold.
This beautiful triptych will soon find its home in a private collection in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The thought makes me both happy and proud.
As I travel, I gather inspiration and energy from the places I see and the people I meet. That energy finds its way into my work—and through my paintings, it continues its journey into the homes of my collectors.
What a beautiful thought: the journey doesn’t end at the studio.
#ContemporaryArt #AbstractPainting #Triptych #ArtCollectors #manuelakarinknaut
This painting carries the essence of four extraordinary days of creating together in the incredibly supportive atmosphere of @woodwardcontemporary in San Diego.
It was created in the studio after the official workshop day had ended. Everyone had gone home, the conversations had faded, and only a few people remained. The space had become quiet.
Throughout the day, I had seen my role as guiding, encouraging, and supporting the participants—helping them take risks, trust their instincts, and move more freely within their own work. But when the studio finally fell silent, I felt an urgent need to turn toward my own canvas and translate everything I had absorbed—the conversations, the energy, the encounters, and the intensity of our shared creative process—into paint.
Perhaps that is why this work contains so much of what matters to me in my art right now: vitality and spontaneity, bold gestures and generous brushstrokes, but also a continual return to the very essence of painting.
It is about freedom. About trusting the moment. About allowing a painting to unfold without knowing where it will lead.
And above all, it carries the certainty that there is still so much more to come.
This is only the beginning—and for me, this painting embodies precisely that feeling.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #CreativeFreedom #WoodwardContemporary
@woodward.contemporary
This painting carries the essence of four extraordinary days of creating together in the incredibly supportive atmosphere of @woodwardcontemporary in San Diego.
It was created in the studio after the official workshop day had ended. Everyone had gone home, the conversations had faded, and only a few people remained. The space had become quiet.
Throughout the day, I had seen my role as guiding, encouraging, and supporting the participants—helping them take risks, trust their instincts, and move more freely within their own work. But when the studio finally fell silent, I felt an urgent need to turn toward my own canvas and translate everything I had absorbed—the conversations, the energy, the encounters, and the intensity of our shared creative process—into paint.
Perhaps that is why this work contains so much of what matters to me in my art right now: vitality and spontaneity, bold gestures and generous brushstrokes, but also a continual return to the very essence of painting.
It is about freedom. About trusting the moment. About allowing a painting to unfold without knowing where it will lead.
And above all, it carries the certainty that there is still so much more to come.
This is only the beginning—and for me, this painting embodies precisely that feeling.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #CreativeFreedom #WoodwardContemporary
@woodward.contemporary
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