Artist Statement

Als Künstlerin fasziniert mich die Natur als Quelle von ambivalenten und zeichenhaften Bildern immer wieder. Daher sind Natureindrücke die Grundlage meiner Arbeiten in allen Medien.

Ich fotografiere, male und schreibe. Entsprechend ist auch der Stil meiner Bilder malerisch und oft von poetischen Texten inspiriert oder begleitet.

Am liebsten arbeite ich mit experimenteller Fotografie, Aquarell- und Tuschmalerei, freiem Zeichnen oder Lyrik.

So entstehen neue Welten, die wiederum zu Assoziationen zum Organischen, Natürlichen einladen.

Wie die Natur ist sowohl dieser Prozess als auch seine Ergebnisse von Bewegung, Wandel und Wachstum geprägt - für mich sinnstiftende Säulen des Lebens.

Mein Anliegen ist es, auf die Schönheit, Bedeutung und Verletzlichkeit der Natur aufmerksam zu machen und den Wunsch zu deren Schutz zu wecken.

- Christiane Weismüller

Artistic Process

I create photographs, paintings and work with text. Through careful observation during the seasons I explore the processes of change in nature.

I look for possibilities to reconnect with nature to increase awareness and motivation to protect her.

I am interested in the influence of art on our relationship with our environment and on our perspectives on the natural world.

Painting

My studio is a space for experimenting with paint, paper and water, to achieve organic structures inspired by my outdoor impressions. I take a poetic and emotional starting point and work hands on with diverse materials such as blades of grass, twigs and leaves from trees, feathers and other materials, which I collected during my naturewalks. With them I apply ink or watercolour – often plant made pigments – on the paper.

Photographing

For my photographs I choose from my collection of nature finds, which I capture in various constellations indoors, outdoors or on the light table. During my walks outside I capture parts of nature working with camera movement, soft focus techniques and macro lenses. All these techniques serve to create new impressionistic and abstract worlds.

Writing

My poetic texts arise from the interaction between nature and myself, my observations and emotional reactions to them, my associations and reflections about us and our environment. They do not complement my pictures, paintings and drawings but they interact with them, or go beyond them. Working with metaphors and other methods to intensify language I create word images of nature‘s traces.

Inspiration

My whole work is inspired by various poetic topics from literature. In addition Japanese esthetic concepts like the white or empty space, minimalism, wabi sabi and haiku fascinate me, because I think they describe on the one hand principles in nature perfectly well and on the other hand callenge our perception habits.