All my paintings are somehow related in style. Even though they should stay on its own. If my artwork would need to be explained mainly by words, something would be wrong. Looking at my paintings is like communication without words between viewers and me, in other words: a non-verbal dialogue. Art has to be nice and provocative at the same time, some people call it inspiring because of that.
My art development has been a long journey, once started with detail planning with very simple shapes and by using only a few clear primary colours. Since my late youth I have experimented with more complex structures, which today became even chaotic, in parts randomly sometimes. While painting, I still play with interaction of shape and colours through creating various patches of overpainting, and corrections. On the whole various levels improvisations direct on the canvas make up the final artwork. Even if I have started with a draft on the blank canvas, at first the outlines might be quite close to the original photo or nearby outdoor nature study, whereas the final result, always done in atelier, becomes a more well elaborated abstract style.
Most of my work contains hints to our endangered nature. During my travels I got the opportunity for an intense involvement with the beauty of landscapes as well as with natural hazards, with nearby vegetation, with animals and rocks. I became confronted with diversity and extinction. These visual experiences inspired me deeply. I value the present status of nature as a human being. Humans became not only conscious about it, but also familiar with it. In my romantic opinion, I try to defend it against recent man made and fast ongoing degradation and demolition through my artwork.
As a geologist I tried to understand the earth scientifically – as an artist I still try to tell about nature. I do it in my compositions, but in a personal, emotionally way. I‘m using this medium with a specific, reduced fundus of shapes, structures and colours similar but not equal to nature. The whole nature is too complex to become fully understood by human beings within their short existence.
My oil paintings with its slow painting process contradict somehow the present day fast changing digital visual world. My art must give viewers inspiration and contemplation about contemporary topics. I like this traditional way of producing art followed by intense interaction with viewers because of its sustainability.