For our eyes, colours are like sounds for our ears – and vice versa. When we hear, we paint our own sound picture of the world from all the sounds. And these creative processes are as subtle as they are refined and fascinating.
Without good music, everything is nothing.
And it is not in the notes, but, if we listen, in the silence in between. – after W. A. Mozart
Without art (visual art), however, everything is also nothing.
And it is not only in the colours, but – if we look closely at the painting – also in the energies of the hand movements and the time and the emotions that were “needed” for the creative process.
All that is needed is love. Love to “open” the painting. Your precious time is the key. And then you will begin to hear the unique melody that you take in with your eyes or with your whole body, but that you hear and understand in the centre of your heart.
Love, and only love, is able to give you a happier life. – after Ludwig van Beethoven
Image: “Blue Velvet”
The “Blue Velvet” (120 x 120 x 3.5 cm, 2020, without frame) is a very first GIN PORTRAIT from the project “Art of Spirit – Spirit of Art – Art is a Spirit” (in collaboration with an ORATOR AG from Pfungen, CH-8422).
Painting and media: acrylic, impasto gel, gin with spice mixtures, earth on white stretched canvas.
I learned so much during the creative process of this artwork, which is a further development of my IVVArt Method ©! Some details about this visual story where the butterfly Morpho represents beauty and freedom, and because a Morpho has huge, bright, iridescent blue wings its true beauty is revealed when it flies and the contrasting light blue and dull brown colours flash, making it look as if it is appearing and disappearing.
What can the morpho butterfly teach us with its extraordinary beauty and freedom? The sight of its large, massive, bright blue wings from above holds our gaze. Yet this unique beauty enchants us especially when the morpho is flying – when the bright blue and dull brown colour covering the wing from below makes it look as if the morpho is becoming visible and then disappearing.
I have tried to express this through the posture of the female figure, the deliberate choice of skin colour and the curves of the blue velvet, gold passport and exclusive negligee. The image was given a matte black, geometric patterned background to give the blue velvet and the butterfly the leading role.
The morpho-butterfly was given additional lighting, hovering in golden dust from above, and this beam of light, directed only at it, enhanced its already sparkling blue. Between its wings, a wand of light makes its way to the wrist of the female figure leaning against the left side of its body. The wings reflect part of the neon blue light “falling” on them from above, which can only be seen from one side of the painting, while from the other side it is completely invisible to the viewer. This effect is achieved with a very special acrylic crystal paint (manufactured by Lascaux Colours & Restauro, Brüttisellen, CH-8306).
The gold border is made of real thread spool and then coated with 2 different gold colours, a very unique and delicate but very accentuated part of the painting. With this, I paid tribute to the historic renovated building of the gin manufacturer ORATOR AG in Switzerland (one of their gin products is also called Blue Velvet), which was operated as a thread and yarn factory for decades in the past.
NETTO PRICE: 8.000,- CHF EXW @artist’s place in Switzerland
