Two perspectives, one evolving archive.

I grew up in Tauberbischofsheim, surrounded by nature and in close contact with animals. My father, a recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, ran a bird-rearing station. This immediate connection to animals—their movements, their presence and their vulnerability—shaped my perception from an early age. Nature was never merely a backdrop to me, but something alive with which human beings exist in a continuous relationship.

After studying education, I spent many years working in adult education with a focus on the medical field. Encounters with many different people, lives and perspectives became an important part of my own development. These experiences continue to resonate in my art. My paintings are emotional and multilayered; they are part of the world as I perceive and experience it.

Art had always been present in my life. At school, I specialised in art, followed by decades of independent study of artistic expression across cultures and periods. Countless visits to exhibitions and museums—including the Museum of Modern Art in New York—and exchanges with artists from around the world continually expanded my perspective.

Retirement finally gave me the freedom to devote myself fully to art.

My process is intuitive. A painting rarely begins with a completed plan. Colour, form and movement enter into a relationship and gradually reveal the direction of the work. Each painting develops its own dynamic; I follow it, intervene, discard and layer. For me, abstraction has the power to transcend the immediate and material world. It can make inner states visible for which language alone is insufficient.

My work does not seek to provide definitive answers. It opens spaces in which personal memories, emotions and associations can emerge. What I place within a painting does not have to be what another person discovers in it. It is precisely this openness that gives art its vitality.

Nor do I regard artificial intelligence as an enemy of human creativity. I see it as a counterpart—a tool and, at the same time, a new form of dialogue. Through the co-creation of human and machine, something may emerge that neither could have created alone. When a physical painting is extended into movement, time and sound, it does not lose its origin. Instead, it opens another dimension of experience: a new reality that was previously unimaginable.