Painting reveals to me a consciousness that liberates and at the same time stimulates my intuition and my creative work.

As a self-taught artist, I came to painting late in life, although my deep passion for oil painting was already pronounced in my youth. In my search for my personal artistic language, I went through various processes. My engagement with the overwhelming work of the American expressionist Mark Rothko ultimately led me to turn away from figurative painting towards non-objective painting and  > «metaphysical» color field painting.

I am fascinated by how a painting with countless thin layers of colour and blurred, «floating» areas of colour piled into one another can develop great inner power and depth and evoke unadulterated human emotions in the viewer. My art endeavours to breathe life into my works by linking the sensual with the metaphysical. The works receive their meditative aura through the conscious and experimental use of various mediums such as iron dispersion, oil tempera, alkyd and dammar resin.

In my further artistic development - inspired by Gerhard Richter - I have increasingly turned to the  > abstract squeegee technique, which has strong parallels to > «metaphysical» color field painting. The aim is the same: to create quiet, introspective and at the same time dramatic, powerful paintings.

In contrast to color field painting, the works of the squeegee technique cannot be planned and this gives them their tension and drama. The considered and modelled randomness with squeegees, palette knives and brushes creates compositions in the sequence of addition and subtraction of tools and colour that are often reminiscent of spatial and landscape depictions.