[martina.delange60]

Hello Peeps! This is your techno-phobic and naive colleague. But that is how I like to do my art: with the spontaneity of art therapy, where my inspiration comes from. Which means that I have a huge resistance to intellectualising. I am doing my best, though :’)  This is my first artists’s statement ever. Here goes…

 

My landscape paintings flow from my heightened awareness when surrounded by the isolation and vastness of wilderness areas. I hope that my viewer will have a sense of recognition. This could be a ‘sense of place’; being reminded of their experience of a similar location. It could also be a recognition of a universal emotion expressed in the painting. My use of rough textures and my loose application of acrylic paint indicates that the goal is not photo-type realism. Instead, these effects aim at increasing the immediacy of the experience of the painting. When I am told that a painting is “so realistic”, I rejoice that it resonates with the viewer and that my message has in some measure been received.

I paint landscapes to share my experience and to document some of the wild places that still remain. I hope that my work will serve as a reminder of the value of the remaining wilderness areas, which put us into perspective and speak to the emotions and values that make us truly human.