day of the open studio

On the 1. and 2. May I open my studio for interested people. Time: 12.00 - 17.00.

Last year was great, a lot of people visited me. They came from this district an Berlin. Even the weather was beautiful.

painted bookcase

I decided to paint my bookcase. It was painted in black when I bought it several years ago, and now I wanted to leave something from me - and it looks good:


Now it looks that way. I like it.


The quinces



And the pomegranates

new lady in the boudoir noir

Marte A.
egg tempera & oil on stretched canvas (linen)
100 x 50 cm

The Merman
egg tempera & oil on stretched canvas (linen)
75 x 57 cm
2009

Finally I finished a picture yesterday. A merman, of course. Can´t seem to get rid of them. This one was inspired by a poem of Lord Alfred Tennyson I´ve found some time ago. But as a matter of course the merman mixed with another ... uh ... individual I´ve once dreamed of. My dreams are kind of strange sometimes and my pictures generate some kind of independent existence.
I swear every time I walk by he´s grinning smugly at me, like he knows something I don´t. That´s devastating ...

Pupated
Oil on stretched canvas (linen)
30 x 25 cm

This little mummy will transform into some kind of butterfly. At the moment it´s helpless, cocooned into itself, can philosophize about life and death and has to wait to become a higher being than it´s former shape. At this stage it´s not for sure that there´ll be a transformation, it´s somewhat uncertain, at least for the mummy. But that something´ll happen is visible from the outside. All that matters is the perspective. Who wants to know, doesn´t always know these things that help to relax a little bit (that´s a shame!). And who doesn´t care, because other stuff is more important does look with virgin eyes and hidden things are visible, even it isn´t significant at the moment.
I did always wonder, if egyptian mummies are in a metamorphosis …

Medusa

Medusa
egg tempera and oil on stretched canvas (linen)
150 x 90 cm

My interpretation of the goddess Medusa. The model is my best friend. Of course she hasn´t a snake´s tail in reality (but who knows for sure) ...
Now I could post a lot of information of Medusa, but I´m not in the right mood at the moment. It´s far to much.

The next thing is an exhibition in Berlin with 99 other artists. I don´t know if I´ll like it, but hey, visitors can watch a lot of picture and it´s interesting to observe other artists. ;-)


download 100
30.05.2009 - 01.06.2009
11:00 - 18:00


Vernissage:
Friday, 29.05.2009; 19:00 - 21:00
with live music and performance

place:
Hetzer GmbH & Co Automobil KG . Hauptsitz Opel Hetzer
Knobelsdorffstrasse 63, 14059 Berlin (Charlottenburg)/Germany

But maybe it´ll be fun if some friends come with me ...

Inuit goddess

Sedna
egg tempera and oil on stretched canvas (linen)
180 x 55 cm

Now it´s done, I´m proud. It was difficult to paint, because the size of the stretched canvas is large. My way to paint ranged between standing on a stool and lying on the floor. But that´s OK. Sedna was a great model and very kind. ;-)

Here a picture of her face (and again the layout is a mess *hmpf*):