tholang

That's not me, but it might be ...

Living in Stuttgart, Germany I‘m a photographer „en passant“, painter and not a professional artist. I‘m just in it for fun, but nevertheless it‘s an important part of my life. My main profession is quite a different kind of art: Dealing with tax-law (more on the chaotic side of life).

Photography

See it, take it and then play. The pictures are mostly spontaneous finds during walks in my hometown (accompanied with a dog who let you wait and see) or travelling around. The world is full of wonderful details which are quite often in form and colour pieces of art by themselves. These pieces of cut out reality are often abstracted tiny parts of a bigger structure which open the view to a totally new story of the original thing. That is what I call playing with it.

On the other hand sometimes I‘m simply lucky to get a picture in a scenery with or without people which opens the phantasy to tell their own narration (That simply means: Right time, right place, click).

Paintings

It‘s only a little bit of paint on a white empty surface, that means everything is possible.

In recent years I mostly do study’s of faces ( you may call it portraits). It‘s also about stories or as I will call it: What’s behind the eyes? This sort of painting needs also the look for the details, so in the end it‘s a different technique but mostly the same approach as in my photographs.

But sometimes, when I was too much fixed on details I need big paintings with no thought, only colour and nothing else but colour ...