The dynamics of colors

JOHannaS

My passion is painting. As an emerging artist and painter I am drawn to contemporary and modern art. My work is intuitive; colour is the language I use to express my feeling. I create acrylic paintings of varying sizes, colours, textures and materials. What is consistent in my painting is that in each artwork I experiment with colour, material and motion. The images and colours are derived from my soul and are inspired by everything I have encountered: from work of the modern American, Russian and European art masters, to the celestial and terrestrial forms around me, to cultures of the exotic lands I have visited. My style involves contrasting aspects of the simplicity of daily life to the complex elements of international affairs. I break the emotions arising from the events down into a dynamic mix of colour and motion. For me, the act of painting is similar to having a dream; the images I create have many interpretations yet are universal in scope. Hopefully my paintings convey a felt perception of life, an awareness of the history of art, and a clear expression of my passion.

Medial painting – the digital spirit of the age in pictures

I use the computer as a painting tool and have developed different techniques. There are the “Photo-paintings” as a sub-set of the digital works. They are a combination of traditional painting and the creation of pictures in a special program. I have developed two types: On one hand I digitalize my original art works in mixed media and then create a new work by manipulating the digital images in the computer. On the other hand I make a kind of "Photo-collage", called digital mosaics, where each picture is a composition of about 2000 single pictures