About the Artist
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
After growing up in Switzerland I left for Florence, Italy in January 2006 to study drawing and painting under Maestro Micheal John Angel and Jered Woznicki at the Angel Academy of Art.
Spending many childhood days in forests and on mountains, I have always had a profound love and respect for nature. I am also blessed (or cursed?) with a deep interest in “the human experience”, an insatiable curiosity that urges me to question and think and change and seek and grow.
Art – drawing and painting – is my means to exploring and making sense of life, ultimately manifesting my abstract research into the visible world.
I train passionately to become a professional painter and illlustrator as well as a teacher & speaker on the arts of drawing and painting.
INFLUENCES
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A vast variety of artists inspire and influence my working and thinking. Among them are many of the “Old Masters” of painting, but also musicians, writers, photographers, actors, dancers, etc. To name a few:
Velázquez, Bonnat, Vermeer, Millais, Rubens, Bouguereau, Prud’hon, Mucha .
Some of the contemporary artists that are meaningful to me are included in the “Inspiration” link-list to the right of this page. There are SO MANY brothers and sisters.
Online Communities such as conceptart.org and DAF (German) have been tremendous influences and sources of motivation and knowledge.
The writings of Andrew Loomis, Robert Beverly Hale, Harold Speed and Josh Waitzkin among others, have proven to be very stimulating & instructive.
LEARNING HOW TO DRAW
The more I learn to use my eyes the more beauty I can see in this startling world we live in. The idea of boredom has become very strange and foreign. I try to keep a sketchbook with me most of the time and draw whatever catches my attention, comes to my mind or touches my heart. To me, truth, beauty and love all belong together inseparably and merging with them again and again through creating is what keeps my fire burning.
Becoming good at drawing demands practice. There are uncountable similarities to music and – maybe surprisingly at first – the martial arts. Learning any art involves the mind just as much as the hand. Constant introspection is as important as the actual process of drawing & painting. Also, one needs to have goals. A vision.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My vision is to inspire.