A Conscious Garden. Painting. Completed 2020 - 2021. Mixed media (watercolour, ink & pen, graphite, gouache) on 360g Hahnemühle aquarelle paper. Size: 105 x 75 cm.
This painting is a window into an imaginary dream sphere, a botanical fantasy, dramatising the tangled growth, the joyful and sometimes violent pushing towards light, and the spilling flowers and fruit of the primordial garden.
A Conscious Garden (Detail). Painting. Completed 2020 - 2021. Mixed media (watercolour, ink & pen, graphite, gouache) on 360g Hahnemühle aquarelle paper. Size: 105 x 75 cm.
This painting is a window into an imaginary dream sphere, a botanical fantasy, dramatising the tangled growth, the joyful and sometimes violent pushing towards light, and the spilling flowers and fruit of the primordial garden.
Working in the studio. Photograph by Chris Czuma.
Bamberg, Fantasiehäuser. 2020. Watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper. An impression of Bamberg’s Unesco World Heritage Old Town.
Making of: A Conscious Garden (above). Lovingly detailed pen and ink sketching with watercolour, inspired by grenadilla flowers.
Atelier NONNE 11, Fantasiestraße. 2022. Watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper. A portrait of my studio building, with an impression of Bamberg’s Unesco World Heritage Old Town.
Verblüht. 2021. Photograph. Found along the riverbank; a rose, shrivelled and spent in autumn surrender.
An early portrait of Nora at eight years old, in her pj’s, way past her bed-time, flushed with the excitement of creating.
Botanical drawings in ink and watercolours.
Self-Portrait as Enamelist. 2019. Blue acrylic ink and watercolour on watercolour paper. An attempt at capturing my emotional state while I am in the enamelling flow. To read more about this ancient craft technique and why I love it, have a look at this blog post titled Enamelling in Circles.
Foliage. 2020. Watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper.
Nepenthes IV. 2020. Enamelled object set in a watercolour and ink painting; framed in a white wooden frame. Enamel, hand-sawn copper, thread, turquoise, moss agate, watercolour, ink, graphite, Hahnemühle Aquarelle paper.
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Forest (detail). 2019. Watercolour and ink on Fabriano paper.
Making of: A Conscious Garden, 2020. Mixed media (watercolour, ink & pen, graphite, gouache) on 360g Hahnemühle aquarelle paper. Size: 105 x 75 cm.
This painting is a window into an imaginary dream sphere, a botanical fantasy, dramatising the tangled growth, the joyful and sometimes violent pushing towards light, and the spilling flowers and fruit of the primordial garden.
Expedition. 2020. Guache, ink and watercolour on aquarelle paper.
Making of: Just Before Waking. 2019. Watercolour and ink on watercolour paper. See Oustok-Jongstok exhibition in 2019.