Me

I am autodidact. Apparently out of the blue, in 2002 I began to paint.

When in 2005 I changed city life in Amsterdam to country living in Burgundy, I no longer did limit myself to painting. I began to create objects from natural waste and worthless things lying around my home environment.

In 2007 some of my work became explicitly autobiographical and I also began to use fragments of text.

In 2008 I started to exhibit.

Around 2009/2010 I began to make site-specific work.

Essence is a key word for my work. I seek the essence of the image that I've put down. Anything that distracts, must go. The paintings are not a representation of the reality but a result of what I experience, feel and think. They are, as Jan Wolkers, Dutch painter and writer puts it: Thought Landscapes .

The objects I make are about the essence of beauty, which I find in imperfection, vulnerability, mortality, and the ordinary..

Art is for me an investigation to satisfy my curiosity and it fulfills my creative needs.

More of my work on: atelierstern.blogspot.fr