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With innovative techniques, natural materials, like sand and earth, combined with traditional artistic media (acrylic on canvas), the artist creates images of deserts and water landscapes, seen from an aerial perspective. Her object-paintings evoke the impression of being more real, tactile and tangible than photographic shots, maintaining at the same time the artistic feeling about them. The view from a distance is as relevant as it at close range and a transformation takes place in one’s perception whilst approaching her canvases. The illusion of three-dimensionality and scale changes to one of the real materiality of the surface, which is built up with multiple layers of sand and paint. The world created by the artist is tactile, tangible and seemingly very real and sensuous. At the same time it is mysterious and intriguing. It removes the spectator from the earth and confines them to a transcendent point of view from above looking directly downwards.
ABOUT SAND
Sand is ambiguous. Isolated grains of sand are hard, durable and almost timeless. But many grains together, or the body that builds “sand”, consisting of countless tiny particles, is fleeting, ephemeral and transient. It can take on all forms and adapt itself to different surroundings. It constantly moves and never remains in the same position. It is very easy to disperse sand in all directions. It mixes with other materials, like dust, dirt, earth etc. and disappears. Vast amounts of sand, called deserts, appear flowing and look like seas, especially when the wind creates formations similar to waves. There is a word in German, “Sandmeer”, describing exactly this phenomenon. That means “Sea of Sand” or “Sand-Sea”. Sand is a preliminary stage to dust, and, in its turn, dust is that to nothingness. Dust is traditionally associated with death. In contrast, sand still bears life and displays wonderful colours.
With my work I try to fix sand in time, making it permanent as a work of art. I am interested in creating desert-like landscapes on canvas and unite them with universal forms, such as the circle, the curve and the line. These are object-paintings, which combine abstract and representational elements. My work is also about processes that lead to creation of certain formations and structures in nature. Through my action-like movements of sand, paint and canvas I model and imitate natural forces such as wind, tidal waves, earth crust shifts and other tectonic structural changes. At the same time I express my emotional states and mental processes, the initial, spontaneous impulses and the later, more controlled considerations.

Stones

2006
acrylic, sand on canvas
20 x 20 cm

Desert Road

2005
acrylic, sand on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Stony Desert

2005
acrylic, sand on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Black Water

2006
acrylic, sand on canvas
200 x 200 cm

Blue Circle River

2005
acrylic, sand on canvas
20 x 20 cm

Breaking Ice #2

2005
acrylic, sand on canvas
100 x 100 cm

Dry Lakes

2005
acrylic, sand on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Splinters #3

2007
acrylic, sand on canvas
60 x 70 cm