At the heart of my work is my desire for intense encounters – with nature as a force greater than myself, and with harmonious and conflicting elements within myself. I seek authentic communication – a communication that responds to differences not by judging them, but by appreciating them. I hope to find this kind of understanding also in our coexistence as human beings – in connections both large and small.
In the process of my painting, I work accordingly, in free dialogue with the image. Following an initial impulse, I enter into an exchange with the image: I empathize, I feel my way, I respect what is, I respond. Sometimes it stalls, it takes time – but I place my trust in the process. Ultimately, a picture depicts a dialogue in the course of which certain themes have crystallized and been “discussed” to mutual satisfaction.
With this form of painting, I expose myself to ignorance and to emptiness. I allow myself to engage with contradictions and emotions that are not always easy. This is my way of going through inner processes of development and coping with life. Through my pictures, I can share these processes with other people, thereby creating new encounters and connections.

I paint landscapes that vary between the pictorial and abstraction. In my pictures, I make the essence of my personal experiences of nature tangible. In doing so, I tell stories about emotional states, development processes, and of how I deal with life.
For me, landscape has much to do with vastness, with openness, and it gives me a means of breaking free from constraint, pressure, and difficult emotional states. I do this in my paintings, too. I remove boundaries and transform landscape and nature, making them accessible in new ways. The results are colorful: medium to large-format pictures and series of works on canvas and paper, in acrylic, watercolor and also using digital media.

Inspiration that I have gained from being in nature and on journeys through foreign landscapes forms the basis of my paintings in the studio, often even years later. Colors are very important to me, with their luminosity and their interplay within the space of the picture, as well as movement and dynamics – my pictures live and radiate intensity. I paint in layers, to create depth and complexity, in a multi-layered working process – initially on the basis of a specific visual impulse, but then intuitively, without a plan, the outcome completely open. Spontaneous gestural expression with brush and paint on canvas or paper is crucial, whether that is with large, sweeping strokes, or merely intimated, delicate subtlety. Pictorial elements and colors are repeatedly overlaid, blurred, eliminated, transformed. In doing this, I combine all sorts of different material states of the paints – from highly diluted, to viscous, opaque and clearly contoured. The process-oriented nature of my painting can and should become visible.