Unfinished paintings – The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

  In the days of social media it’s far too easy to appear like you’re perfect – just use the right filters, always smile like you’re happy and find the perfect spot to do a selfie, right? Since I know all too well that I’m anything but perfect, I thought I’d do this little series

The Changing Seasons – January 2018

  I´m in for a new blogging adventure called “The Changing Seasons”, a monthly event and photo challenge that has been originally invented by Max over at Cardinal Guzman and is now in the wonderful and capable hands of my dear friend Su over at Zimmerbitch. January started with the few Christmas decorations I managed to

Pulled From The Archives: In Love With Polar Bears

  Here comes another post pulled from my archives! It contains of a surprise birthday gift I made for my mum two years ago: a painting of her favorite animals – polar bears. Back then I used to post my progressing paintings bit by bit, but I didn´t do it with this one because I

Pulled From the Archives: In the Mood for… William Turner

  Here comes another post pulled from my archives! In fact, it is the very first post I published on WordPress. It shows, that although my blog started in July 2015, the project that stands behind it – which is me making art – actually began half a year earlier. And to be even more

Ghostly Image: The Three Sisters

    It´s been a while since I painted one of my ghostly images, and I hope you will like this one! It´s been inspired by the painting “Three Figures: Pink and Grey” by the American painter James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). One of his most famous paintings is “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1”,

In the Mood for… Marc: Little Monkey

“In the Mood for… Marc: Little Monkey” (acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 cm, 2016). Last weekend I finished my latest painting “In the Mood for… Marc: Little Monkey”! Due to my eye condition (corneal erosion), it took much longer than usual… but having managed it at all, makes me incredibly happy and content! 🙂

A Pair of Puffins

  A Pair of Puffins (acrylic on canvas; 30×24 cm; August 2016)   Thanks to cutting back a little from blogging, I managed to finish my latest painting – A Pair of Puffins – that I started a couple of months ago! (Usually it takes a month per painting.) Puffins are one of my very,

True Grit

  True Grit (acrylic on canvas)   There´s a huge vine climbing beside my kitchen window where the bluebirds build their nests every spring. Unfortunately we´ve got a nasty little gang of young magpies as well here (don´t get me wrong, they are beautiful but you´ll soon see why I don´t like this particular group).

In Gratitude

At the beginning of this week my dear friend Syeda published an article about our friendship and art collaboration. Stunned and overwhelmed I furiously began thinking about how I could express my gratitude to her. The solution was obvious: I had to paint something especially for her! But what, I wondered.   I searched my

Ghostly Image – Love

    My latest ghostly image “Love” has been inspired by a wonderful short story called “A Promise of Paradise” which I came across this highly fascinating blog “Cakeordeathsite” – please visit it! I find the story absolutely captivating and very intriguingly written. It´s lure reminded me of the works by Kafka and Stephen King.