BIO

* 1962

Lives and works in Essen I Germany

After studying art education and fine arts in the eighties

my search for self-knowledge led me to become an art therapist, a counselor and finally

a teacher for Yoga and meditation.

While working with people for many years, art has always accompanied me, in a receptive as well as in an actively creative sense,  as a ressource of freedom and beauty.

The technical aspects of art emerge from the inner motivation; i love the free play with colours, forms and materials, as far as it gives the originality and pureness of the soul a valid aesthetic form.

The burning question `Who am I ? ` running through my life, i feel answered in meditation as well as in the artistic process. Both allow me to expand and grow beyond myself into a field of being where the essence of life can be felt.

After decades of self-research and inner maturation i (re)started in 2019 to give my artistic work an even larger space with a studio in the Kreativquartier Essen City-Nord and various exhibitions.

Education

1982-85 Studies in art education I University of Essen

1985 lateral entry to the  Kunstakademie Düsseldorf  with Degree in Fine Arts Painting 1987

Consciousness- and Yogateacher AYA 500

Exhibition

2023 Kunstspur Essen I Offene Ateliers

2023 `Emerging` I International online exhibition

2022 Kunstspur Essen I Offene Ateliers

2022 jETZT Kunst in derNordstadt I Essen

2021 Kunstspur Essen I Offene Ateliers

2021 `jetzt_sein` I solo exhibition I jETZT Kunst in der Nordstadt I Essen

2020 Kunstspur Essen I Offene Ateliers

2020 jETZT Kunst in der Nordstadt I Essen

2019 Kunstspur Essen I Offene Ateliers

2009 Kulturkuxe I Alte Schule Essen Steele

2007 Justizakademie Recklinghausen

2006 Rilke Kunstdialog I Hofwerkstatt Essen

2005 Bürgermeisterhaus I Essen Werden I Solo exhibition

2003 Werkschau I Hofwerkstatt Essen

Art and Yoga

2020 ' Breathing Colours` I summer project I Galerie Gublia I Essen

Residencies

2023 July `Call of freedom` I jETZT Kunst in der Nordstadt I Essen

2023 March `Moving into lightness` I jETZT Kunst in der Nordstadt I Essen