Hyacinth Macaw

  Don´t ask me why, but I´m totally into painting birds these days, so expect to have some feathered friends flying your way in the coming weeks. 😉 This is a water color painting of a Hyacinth Macaw, a parrot that is native to central and eastern South America. With a length of about 100Continue reading “Hyacinth Macaw”

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”,Continue reading “Ghostly Image: The Three Sisters”

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,Continue reading “A Pair of Puffins”

Ghostly Ruins

  I started this painting months ago and let it lying around in order to do other things instead. Sometimes it is like that with a painting. It kind of needs time to incubate. Today however I finally finished it, my Ghostly Ruins! Hope you like it!

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).Continue reading “True Grit”

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 myContinue reading “In Gratitude”

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.Continue reading “Ghostly Image – Love”

Ghostly Image: The Silence

  This ghostly image of mine has been greatly inspired by the painting “The Silence” by the swiss painter Henry Fuseli (german: Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741 – 1825). He is one of my favourite romantic painters who´d great influence on other painters such as William Blake.

In the Mood for… Rousseau – The Dream

In the Mood for… Rousseau – The Dream (acrylic on canvas) This weekend I finished my latest painting! It´s inspired by the painting “The Dream” by the french painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a post-impressionist who taught himself to paint and was tragically ridiculed by critics for his naïve manner during his lifetime. “The Dream” (1910)Continue reading “In the Mood for… Rousseau – The Dream”