Illuminated Paintings (Paintings on Glass)
My work combines the ancient art of glass painting, as it is used for stained glass windows, with glass fusion.
Fusing colored glass into one solid plate allows for the free combination of colors in glass without the need for lead lines separating one colored piece of glass from the next, as is customary in stained glass windows. This moves the medieval art of glass painting into a contemporary context.
My latest glass paintings are back lit with ultra thin LED lights, which enhance every detail of the painting and at the same time allow for the glass painting to be displayed on a wall like a regular piece of art.
Alternatively, the painted glass panels can be fitted into a stand and placed in a window for natural lighting or before any other light source.
Most of my subject matter is derived from the natural world around me. On my daily walks to a nearby park I am privileged to experience everything from migrating birds, hawks, butterflies and more, and my visits to the Jersey Shore with its wetlands and the ocean provide ample inspiration from birds to fish.
I paint impressions of birds, fish and butterflies from imagination. They are creatures of fantasy and they float on the glass as they float in the water and in the air.
Paintings on Canvas
Crumbling leaves in fall, ancient rocks in the mountains or by the sea, landscapes which took millions of years to form. All these are awe-inspiring witnesses to the passage of time.
In my second home in the Swiss alpine region of the Engadin, I am constantly drawn to the spectacle of stone, water, weather, snow, ice and extremely cold temperatures under an aggressively blue sky. As the glaciers melt, they reveal the past in the form of rocks which have been covered by ice for thousands of years.
Of course nature manifests itself wherever we are on the planet and we can only look on in awe.
All this coming and going, the circle of creation and disappearance of the elements lies at the bottom of my paintings and I am continuously trying to capture it.