Some quotes about my work, inspiration and others.

I am selftaught, no art education, no graduation.
I have allways been a visualminded person liking to shape and create. I first started my career as a teacher in physical education at highschool but finally I was more interested in putting the energy in myself rather than in pupils. Just by visiting museums in my childhood with my parents and reading books with a lot of images of paintings I knew from the beginning I had to become a painter. There was no question about, only a matter of time to fullfill this deep desire of creating works of art in a way no one did before.

I am influenced by following painters.
To start with Rembrandt because of his reallife point of view and his clair obscur, the light in his work and of course his incredible sharp eye.
Second Monet, because of the air and colours he discovered and the romantic idea of being a painter, feeling free!
And there it is, the American Photorealists from Meisel's first book Photorealism. When I saw those very contemporary but skilled works in oil it was the click and justifies combining my traditional oiltechnique with nowadays and common subjects. Richard Estes because of his architectural wideness, Ralph Goings because of his more intitimate interiours and stilllives and Charles Bell of his spectacular blow-ups from little, colourfull, daily things children like. And of course, Tom Blackwell and Don Eddy made like me reflections to paint and Ben Schonzeit makes love me the abstraction of stillive on large scale.

A big reason to paint to me is: There is no light without shadow, this rather poetic statement is very important for me. The stronger the shadow the stronger the light. I like contrasts. To express maximum lightpower I use the so called clair obscur. It helps to focus. In looking for the painted story you are guided by the dark to the light direction.

About my technique: It has to to with the very strong longing for 100 % representing reality. To achieve this I first developed skills in various techniques. Acrylique, airbrush, oil. To get to my smooth results I now generate it needed a lot of just copying photographs first and after that litle by little I said goodbye to this empty way of reproduction and invented a way of creating my own translation into paint. I only use oilpaint in the traditional way, with many different brushes, terpentine, glazing and so on.This took years and years to learn and to know. If you could see a recent painting close you would see less accurate detail than expected, in a way my style still is in progress!

The visoin behind my works is: utilitizing trival or mundane items, I let reality run through my fingers afresh. My intention is to give these objects a soul, a presence. Times stands still when I place these objects in a classical art arrangement, removed from the context of their day-to-day surroundings. Ideally, this sense of timelessness is the way in which my technique is close to the 17th century Dutch tradition.I hope my paintings will allow the viewer to re-experience reality, to re-discover the essence of the thing that has become so ordinary from its DNA to the level of universal structure, in all its beauty. I call it the beauty of the contemporary commonplace.

My relationship with food is that I am not a foody,really! How contradictional!
But this ordinary subject comes along with my desire to show people their own common world.
If any message, I can bring it better in this way. I love to show people light and dark, metaphores which can be seen in all my paintings. And I like to show beauty in its purity. There is no beauty without a beast, so irregularity is important to me too. All those aspects can be find in (fast)food from which temptation is actually the most important quality. To induce people to buy my images needs temptational work!