" The world around us is an endless source of inspiration. Wherever I am, I see subjects for paintings and often I instantly feel the desire to paint. Those usually turn out as the best paintings.

Throughout my career as a designer I had to visualise my ideas and designs as realistically as possible, in order to communicate exactly what I had in mind. Now, as an artist, I am looking for something different.

I believe a painting must not just simply reflect reality and be more than just nice to look at. A painting should be captivating, puzzling and surprising. Only if it leaves enough room for one's imagination it will stay interesting for a long time.

Watercolour is a great tool to create such paintings my favourite medium to work with. I am careful to not interfere with what water and pigments are doing.

To balance off Trish's works on linen and canvas, I decided to also exhibit some of my acrylic paintings.

The more I paint, the more it becomes clear to me that spontaneity, a certain amount of improvisation and chaos are essential to achieving the results I have in mind.

As an artist I feel I am on a journey. Naturally my latest paintings look different to those I painted a few years ago and my aim is that, before long some of these paintings too look like

milestones on my journey to an as yet unknown destination.

Thank you very much for your interest! Trish and I hope you enjoy this, our exhibition."

Dietmar