contemporary abstract landscape artist
IN PROGRESS...
This is the unfinished version of the first of a new series of cityscapes. The ubiquity of LED lights transform our cityscapes, here shown as an abstraction of China's metropolis Chongqing.
tentative: SKYCITY1
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
RECENT PIECES
As humanity reorganises itself around a new age, reality requires reorganisation.
REORGANISATION
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
As the geometry of information between points of consciousness on Earth is changing, space-time formerly congruent dimensions of local reality are shifting apart. The juxtaposition of foggy medieval woodlands with a pattern of seemingly equilateral triangles is an attempt of expressing this.
ABERRATION
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Sunday, June 16th, 1988, new life arises from green mist, pure energy, beautiful intelligent code emerges into consciousness.
JUNE1988
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Sunday, January 26th, 1986, new life arises from red mist, pure energy, beautiful intelligent code emerges into consciousness.
JANUARY1986
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
This abstraction of an ancient swamp was inspired by September bicycle rides in the marsh-riddled forests southeast of Berlin.
sold | BRUCHWALD
2022 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Wishful thinking, making a dream, a false memory... a negotiation between what is and what isn't.
NEGOTIATION
2021 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Colour pallettes from skies and landscapes are painted on cardboard and are cut and replaced to form abstractions of idyllic views.
LYR1, LYR2, Experiment 1
2020 | 70 x 50cm | acrylic on cardboard, mosaic
The observer is taken on a dreamlike journey. Neon colours distort the desert sunset. Through the night all light becomes wild, colourful abstraction. With the morning the effect fades and gives way to a fragile, but promising sunrise.
YERAZEL
2019 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Facing the sun over Saudi Arabia, the placid Red Sea reflects but the sky. As the day progresses, more and more sea floor shines through the reflection of the water surface. At sunset, the faintly waivy surface alternatingly reflects the sunset sky behind, over Sinai, and in front. Both sky and sea show how the position of the sun, relative to the observer, changes the ren-dering of the colour spectrum in the atmosphere.
MURTCEPS / TAKFEM AT
2019 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
Floating slowly towards the red Jordanian mountains, I ex-perienced oneness and absolute peace in the imagination of dissolution in this Dead Sea. Looking down, the grey salt crystals shine through the water surface in shades of turquoise. As the glance is lifted towards the mountains, the increasingly deep water shines through less and less under the reflection of sky and mountainous horizon.
MAVET / SHALOM
2019 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
White balance adjustment of the human eye gives the impression that sunrise colours merge from warm reds or pinks, through yellows to blues. In fact, the sunrise contains the full colour spectrum -- as the sun shines deeper into the atmosphere, fewer and fewer lightwaves find their way back to the viewer's eye. Here, the sunrise over the mountains of Black Rock Desert, NV, contains the green, as it would be perceived without white balance adjustment.
TRESED 1
2019 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
A playful take of a bay view at the sunny Costa-Brava, this painting captures the lemon-fresh and sky-blue sentiments of a peaceful spring-time morning. The air is still fresh and everything is promise.
ABARDAMLA
2018 | 100 x 50cm | acrylic on canvas
This view of the beach through a glass of mente a l'eau reflects the confusion of what we think we have and what we think we desire, perhaps when, dazed by summer heat, we peak arcoss the edge of our towel and hear the drowning of foreign voices in the noisy smell of the salty waves.
MENTE A L'EAU
2018 | 100 x 50cm | acrylic on canvas
This is one of my earliest more serious works. I first encountered the attraction of using this simple geometry in my paintings, creating a painting in every individual square,
SPECTRUM
2004 | 150 x 50cm | acrylic on canvas
Losing myself in an overabundance of stimulation, I try to rediscover my place in the world. I become hardened and thin like a wire, cylcing across the manic desert (2017 Burn).
WÜSTENDRAHT
2017 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
As old as the sky is an abstraction of an emergence from depression and the recovery from a deep loss of love. It looks at the depth and eternity of the soul.
AS OLD AS THE SKY
2016 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
When I grew up my brother and I shared a bedroom. Every year the first days of spring would be initiated by the beautifully fragrangt pink and white of magnolia petals against the deep blue sky. This painting was gifted to my mum.
MAGNOLIA
2018 | 70 x 50cm | acrylic on canvas
September, my fifth season.
SEPTEMBER
2017 | 100 x 80cm | acrylic on canvas
AQUARELLES
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UNDER THE LAKE
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NORTHERN SKY
2017-18
various sizes | aquarelle on paper