Garden of Transformations

The "Garden of Transformations"

is a project by my painter friend Sabina Wörner from the Netherlands. She did  a series of 12 vibrant portraits of women from different countries, all of them now living in Germany or Holland.

All of them, as well as Sabina herself, who switches between Germany and Holland and has an english background. had to transform their personalities, their habits, their way of living to something wider - and surely more colorful. Most of them have experienced pain and loss, yet the women shown in these paintings all look fresh and alive ans yes - sparkling, i think!

To find out more. you can visit Sabinas Website here.
 There will be an exibition of this Series on the 6th of march in Cologne - watch the website for details! And have a lovely midweek!

Welcome to 2013!

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. 

John Updike

Howdy lovelies, how are you? Feels like i've been away for a long time now, hibernating in my den. Actually, i have been sick with a bad flu right after christmas and felt the need to just do just nothing for a while, exept being with my family and dear friends, eating a lot of good food, reading and resting.  

So - time to shake of this "jet-lagged" feeling and enjoy a shower of fresh inspiration. Welcome you all to the New Year! Can't wait to come visit and see what you have been up to. Do you have a Motto for 2013? I still look around to know, what mine is - let's see!

Paintings in this post are from the series "Wild Girls". They are available as art-prints in my shop here.

Wild girls

2 artists, 6 paintings

These are small canvases - a series of six  that are a collaboration between a good friend and me. I did the painting part and she added the crayon and typographie. We do this on a regular base since many years now and it's always interesting. It is a very special kind of work, and i couldn't do it with anyone else. 

We've started this way of working, when our kids were small and both of us didn't find time to paint at all. So we exchanged little sheets of paper, and each of us in turn added something here and there, until we thought it was finished. With time, we went on to bigger things and organized exibitions. At the moment, the paintings are part of an open house-show at my friends beautiful home.

Hope your week gets of to a great start  - See you soon!

Paintings: Martina Voigt-Schmid, Andrea König