Last year around this time I sewed myself a pair of pants. I had so much fabric left over, that I could cut it out to sew a tunic like this one, this time with short puffy sleeves and a size tighter. And since then, the cut-outs have been lying around. The months passed and… Read More
During the summer months I usually turn into quite a fruitarian, living mainly on and totally devouring all the colourful, sweet and juicy bounty that nature has to offer. Last week I tasted the first cherries of this year and with cherries you have to be kind of quick, because before you can blink twice,… Read More
… the MATS Global Art Gathering in Brighton, of course! Edit: Check out this post on the Make it in Design blog about the experiences of a couple of attendees, including mine.
When I step outside our house onto the terrace these June days and look up, I have a view kind of like this: I’ll be leaving for Brighton/England tomorrow for the MATS Global Art Gathering. I have been taking the Make Art that sells online courses with the Lilla Rogers School over the last months… Read More
For this week’s pattern I played with a pattern palette and a fashion trend for spring/summer 2016 called Soft Pop. I wanted to get a feel for the colours and designed a scarf pattern for the recent Printed Village competition. Pastels and geometrics are a big part of this trend. Powdery pinks – why not?… Read More
Doris Reske and me have just had some productive painterly weeks – we have our new exhibition at Gross & Gross in Oldenburg, where we show mostly our individual artwork and only one Co-Lab painting. But for upcoming art shows we would like to have more large Co-Lab canvases to exhibit. So we had two… Read More
It is my birthday today. And though it was on a regular working Monday, I just liked it that way. Waking up to table of presents, a cake and flowers, taking a cold shower, teaching yoga classes in the morning and in the evening, a little bit of painting, drawing and designing, my lovely family,… Read More
I close my Week of Poppies with a pattern. I experimented with inks on yupo paper this week – strange thing that paper, synthetic and water resistent, that lets the ink stay very saturated on top. I was about to throw my first attempt away: But then I rather scanned it and took it into… Read More
For the Poppy Weekend I show you a piece fresh from my pink studio, made this morning. It’ s been quite rainy around here lately and for the collage I combined this rainy feeling with popping poppies. This kind of collage is the recent lesson in Alena Hennessy’s painting course A Year of Painting II,… Read More
I made some sketches of the poppies in our garden. Who knows what they will become? Part of a pattern, a photo collage. Or just stay drawing and marvelling practice. As they are.