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Trip to Tunis

21. Februar 2025
MVS, Tunis Doppel

A set of two smaller paintings that helped me, to escape winter in my own little ways, travvelling on the wings of colour. As everything in the past months, they develloped in an intuitive manner, applying many layers of paint to evoke a sense of something hidden and partly veiled.

II’m one of these persons, who can’t help seeing things everywhere they look – like animals in clouds, faces on and old wall, etc. So, even if i intended to create an abstract work here, so much of something came in here, that my husband said. these remind him a lot of Tunis.

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MVS, Tunis 1, mixed media / canvas

I didn’t mind that at alll and kept this association in the title of this pair, since islamic art and architecture, especially from Maroc. has always inspired me a lot. But i do hope, that each viewer feels free to see their own things – or no things, as the vibrations of colour speak for themselves.

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Happy Hour

20. Februar 2025
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This is a whimsical painting that started on an experimental note – improvising with the coloirs like you would on a musical instrument. Never the less, it took a long time for me to find the „tune“, the right balance between chance and conscious choices that i liked. I always get stuck, when too much of the head comes into the painting process, when i try to controll too much. So i needed to step back from the painting times and times again until it was finished. My husband called it „HAPPY HOUR“ – and we had a drink of champagne on it!

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MVS, Happy Hour. mixed media/canvas

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A handtufted Rhapsody

19. Februar 2025

Making carpet art is an adventure – and a lengthy process, that involves a lot of work. Many steps and many people. It gave me an understanding, of how important it is, to communicate clearly. To translate the original vision of the design in a way, that will not be misunderstood. When two people look at one thing, they may see and perceive it differently. And even more so, when these people have a different cultural background. It is stunning to see a carpet beong made, seeing skilled hamds tufting it, washing and drying it, cutting it and thus turning it from a 2-D image into a 3D object

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Fotos: mareenlines.com

“RHAPSODY” an ancient Greek word that means “songs stitched together” holds a spirit of collaboration, freeflow, contrasting moods, colours, and tonality. My friend Sharmeen Attarwala and i chose it as a title for one of our artistic carpet series that was derived from a set of abstract collages we worked on a while earlier.

An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation that felt like making music happened when we created the collages and transfered them into designs on the computer. In a dreamlike mode imagining the sunlight caressing warm stones, the peaceful architecture of quiet towns, light gleaming through windows, golden beiges changing into pink and pink into dusky blues, a trance in the poetic spaces of our minds.

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Foto: mareenöones.com

Once made into handtufted carpets by skilled craftsmen in India they looked even more stunning. We love the slight relief structure they have, the soft touch and the silky shine, that makes the colours come alive and change with the light.

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Happy Day

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Little things floating on a summer breeze – plant seeds, leaves, insects, bits of paper and some whimsical tunes and daydreams, all woven into an invisible net of sunlightsunny haze and gentle warmth. My way to tune into summer, when iT#s actually winter here – the magic of painting!

The many layers of paint that i used to achieve depth and transparency in the colour, makes the painting change with the light so it looks different thoughout the day.

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Happy_Day_Painting_MVS

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Golden Light

16. Februar 2025
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The Golden Light series was done last winter to spring – in that time, when the light here is mostly pale white and grey and you don’t see much of the sun. It was inspired by shadows, that the morning sun had painted on the canvases. It started out on a much lighter, almost translucent palette in a white light.

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MVS, Golden Light 2 und 3 aus 4, Mixed Media / cancas, 2024

But even though they looked quite poetic in the reduced, pale colour scheme, they did not evoke that feeling of happiness, that i craved at that time. They made me slightly shiver. Then, the Forsythia in the garden and in the landscape around me started bloomimg early and brought in a very bright, yellow sound that was heard all around. Hello, can you hear a colour? Yes, to me colours are like sounds ofteh.

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MVS, Golden Light Serie, Mixed Media / cancas, 2024

And before i knew it, the yellow swept into my paintings and the inner smile came back…

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