"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light." - Hans Hofmann
I have, beginning with my first brushstroke, looked at ways to bring light into places and spaces with my paintings. How to evoke the sensation of light, glow and luminescence? Considering myself extremely lucky, I have encountered and studied with great masters of color in Europe and the United States of America.
Studying Kandinski's color theory of warm and cold colors and the sense of closeness or distance that they are evoking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's explorations of colors in nature and how they are perceived by the human eye.
Being enchanted by the visual delights of color and its thousands of hues and tones in nature, I have been immersing myself into abstract florals, trees and creatures magical and well known from the forest lands around me.
The 'colorlessness' of black has entered my paintings only once, in my very first painting in 1998 which I painted in my then-home in Luxembourg. Looking back at it, it was a crossroads of choice where I managed to free my being from the blackness of a world of impossibility that had tried (in vain) to take me over.
Through art, I opened a gateway to being me. Not just for me, but for everyone who is willing to receive it, be it and choose to be who they truly are.
'Light Aura' is from the year 2000, and I brought it with me across the Atlantic, in a big crate. I hope you enjoy the radiant light that it emanates, with many layers of blue, purple, green and pure white.
Much gratitude,
Bettina
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