What comes to your mind first when you think about water?

This is a question I recently started to ask people. The variety of their answers surprised me. I already noticed certain patterns and a connection between their personality type and the answer. For example, when I asked surfers during my recent trip to Lanzarote, all of them told me ‘water is power’. Most of m closest friends perceive ‘water as life’. Some of the answers were very abstract like the ‘shades of blue’. I’ve asked separately some couples and often they shared the same image of what water is to them.

When I think about the water myself, I see the pure, nourishing liquid we put into our body through our mouth. I see it’s almost transparency spreading in our vessels and mixing with the fluids of our body.

Water (and lack of water) is my current biggest art project where I want to expand different images of that most precious liquid on earth.

Here are a few paintings from my H2O series, which are connected to my photographic series titled Wet Games, depicting the fun side of the water.

 

SEA

Oil on canvas

80 cm x 60 cm

 

 

 

The painting was created spontaneously. I woke up after spending my birthday weekend out on the Baltic coast. I still heard the sound of the waves in my head and created this painting ultra fast (not even an hour) only from my memory.

 

 

 

SWIMMING POOL

Oil

100 cm x 70 cm

 

 

 

VANITY

Oil

100 cm x 70 cm

 

 

 

AT DAWN

Oil

60 cm x 50 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

PINK WOUND, painted by the lake

Acrylics on canvas

100 cm x 60 cm

 

 

WAR FOR PEACE

Oil on canvas

100 cm x 60 cm

 

 

 

CACTUSES COMPOSITION III

Oil

100 cm x 70 cm

Desert plants. Because water also means a lack of water.

 

 

 

PURITY

Oil on canvas

70 x 60 cm

 

 

CHEERFUL APOCALYPSE

Oil on canvas

120 x 90 cm

The painting was created after seeing a day vision of a swimming pool on a volcanic desert, which seemed to be a kind of hyperreality, where you can jump in case of your personal end of the world. There is always a world you can escape into.

 

 

 

CHEERFUL APOCALYPSE

A digitally modified version of the oil painting

Oil on canvas

120 x 90 cm

 

 

ANOTHER ATMOSPHERE  (SOLD)

Oil on canvas

140 cm x 100 cm

 

(detail)

 

 

 

ALIENATION (in progress)

Oil on canvas

120 x 100 cm

 

HER MAJESTY II

Oil on canvas

70x 50 cm