The Play of Light and Form
Solo Exhibition – Soft Pastel on Paper
Grasbrunn, 7 April - 27 June 2025
Light, form, and color in this exhibition are not used to depict reality, but to express inner emotion. The works portray landscapes, floral motifs, and architectural elements that become carriers of atmosphere and feeling.
Through intentional reduction, stylized forms, and intuitive use of color, the images translate stillness, memory, or wonder into visible structures. Some compositions radiate through bold contrasts; others appear almost weightless—always guided by the desire to make the invisible tangible.
At the heart of this artistic approach lies soft pastel – a medium that surprises with its luminosity, depth, and expressive power.
Series: Tuscan Geometry
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2024
This series reduces the Tuscan landscape to its essential forms. In a clear, graphic style, it explores the balance between nature and architecture—turning hills, cypresses, and farmhouses into abstract compositions.
The works thrive on repetition and reduction. Organic tree shapes meet precise building contours, earthy tones contrast with deep sky blues.
Rather than depth or perspective, these compositions focus on surface, proportion, and form. The landscape becomes a stage for rhythm and visual balance.
Serie: Moroccan Sun
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
This series grew out of impressions from a journey through Morocco—a country where light dominates everything. The intense brightness of the sun, the deep shadows, and the shapes carved by light lend the landscape an almost surreal clarity.
What fascinated me was not detail, but atmosphere: the shimmering heat at midday, the vibrating colors, and the vast space between light and stillness.
Using bold contrasts, simplified forms, and radiant colors, I aim to translate this experience into surface and tone—not as a depiction, but as a felt impression.
Series: Winter Light
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
This series captures the quiet poetry of the Alpine winter. One piece reflects the warm alpenglow over a mountain chapel, while another conveys the crisp joy of snow-covered slopes.
Together, they portray winter as a season full of light, calm, and subtle magic—far from the usual clichés of cold and harshness.
Series: Between the Seasons
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
These two works linger in a moment of transition. Bare trees, faded grasses, and shifting skies speak of nature’s quiet turning points.
Soft color gradients and open compositions invite pause, offering a gentle reflection of change and the subtle rhythm of the seasons.
Series: Glow of Dusk
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
This small series explores the fleeting, transformative moment after sunset—when light gives way to shadow, and colors flare with unexpected intensity.
Complementary tones, bold contrasts, and glowing transitions define these pieces, creating a tension between calm and energy.
Here, soft pastels are used in their most saturated form to create emotional landscapes that go beyond the visible. These works are not quiet—they glow. They hold warmth, mystery, and the final breath of the day.
Series: Silent Winter
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
Winter reduces the world to its essentials—stripping away the excess, softening edges, and distilling the landscape into light, shadow, and form. This series embraces that reduction with minimalist compositions, a muted palette, and subtle tonal transitions that evoke stillness and openness.
By focusing on core elements, the works shift attention from detail to atmosphere. They explore the interplay of fog, snow, and silence—inviting the viewer into a space where time slows, sound fades, and nature reveals itself in its quietest, most untouched state.
Series: Blooming in Color
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2024
This vibrant series celebrates the striking presence of coneflowers—also known as Echinacea—translating their unique shape into graphic, stylized compositions.
The downward tilt of the petals, as if gently bowing toward the ground, became a central point of inspiration.
Each piece centers around a single color—yellow, red, or violet—set against a contrasting background to enhance its luminosity.
Bold black lines structure the images, creating rhythm and emphasizing the individuality of each form. The use of flat color lends the work immediacy, while the stylization leaves room for interpretation.
Created on a bright summer day, when yellow blooms stood out against the blue sky, this series is a tribute to the energy of summer—and to the quiet beauty of the unexpected.
Series: Rhythm Under the Andalusian Sun
Soft Pastel on Paper · Plein Air in Seville · March 2025
This series captures the quiet essence of Seville’s plazas and courtyards—sunlit facades, deep shadows, and the calm rhythm of orange trees lining the streets.
Painted outdoors in early spring, the works reflect a fleeting moment in the Andalusian cycle: the orange trees are neither in bloom nor bearing fruit, yet their sculptural forms radiate calm and clarity.
The contrast between the lush green foliage and the warm ochre tones of the architecture creates a quiet tension—driven not by complementary colors, but by material, weight, and presence. Nature and architecture, curves and lines, shadow and surface meet not in opposition, but in balance.
Though Andalusian architecture is rich in historical details, this series deliberately avoids visual complexity. Instead, it focuses on simplified forms, recurring shapes, and the subtle play of light and shadow. Atmosphere takes precedence over detail; feeling over accuracy.
The tree shapes repeat like a visual echo. Light becomes a sculptural element. What appears still carries motion. What seems minimal holds emotion. These works are a quiet, sensory memory of Seville—where silence breathes and structure turns into poetry.
Series: Cádiz in Light and Motion
Soft Pastel on Paper · Plein Air in Cádiz · March 2025
This series responds to the rhythm of sea and sky along the coast of Cádiz. Created on location, the works capture the ever-shifting relationship between light, water, and architecture—deeply rooted in the immediacy of plein air painting and inspired by Monet’s atmospheric seascapes.
Each piece is distilled to its essence: forms dissolve into light, and detail gives way to texture. The pastel strokes don’t describe—they evoke. The surfaces shimmer with the presence of wind, sun, and salt in the air.
Gesture becomes a language of movement. The sky holds traces of wind, the sea dances in blue and white, and the buildings appear only as silhouettes—secondary to the atmosphere that surrounds them.
This series doesn’t depict a place, but a feeling—a fleeting moment where nothing is fixed and everything seems made of light.
Rhythm of the Pine Alley
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
A row of Mediterranean pines creates a rhythmic pattern of trunks and shadows—each form subtly mirroring the next. The tall trees reach skyward, their flat canopies casting cool blue shadows across the sun-warmed ground.
The composition plays with verticality and repetition. The path becomes a visual melody—calm, meditative, almost musical.
The contrast between warm ochres and cool blues highlights not only form but the atmosphere of a place that feels both structured and dreamlike.
In Blue Tones
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2024
This work unfolds in a range of cool blues and soft lavender. Cypress trees stand like quiet sentinels in a gently layered landscape. The perspective leads the eye through the image in flowing waves—each tree a soft echo of the one before.
Shadows blend into fields of color; the composition becomes a study in tone and balance. The consistent blue palette unifies the scene and transforms it into a quiet, breathing landscape—filled with light and a sense of longing.
Spring Awakening in Neuburg an der Donau
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
This work captures the early stirrings of spring in Neuburg an der Donau — a quiet moment filled with warmth and clarity. A historic tower with its red-tiled roof rises gently behind a sloping garden, where golden shrubs begin to glow in the first strong light of the season.
The composition plays with diagonals and soft curves, leading the eye from foreground to tower, from earthy greens to vibrant yellows, from quiet shadows to open blue sky. Bare trees stand tall in the background, still in their winter form, yet surrounded by the promise of growth.
Color is used sparingly but effectively: the warm tones of foliage and roof contrast against the cool sky, while the softly blended textures evoke stillness and anticipation. This is not a dramatic spring — rather, one that unfolds gently, quietly, and full of presence.
Diptych: Tegernsee
Soft Pastel on Paper · Munich · 2025
This diptych captures two fleeting impressions of Lake Tegernsee — calm, spacious, and bathed in summer light. Rolling hills and rhythmic trees guide the eye toward the deep blue water, which mirrors the sky and anchors the composition in a sense of stillness.
Though the scenes are nearly identical in form, the shift in color and atmosphere between the two panels evokes the subtle changes that come with time and light. One side leans toward the cooler spectrum—muted, almost contemplative—while the other glows with vibrant yellows, full of warmth and movement.
Together, they reflect the dual nature of summer days: quiet and bright, still and alive. The trees, repeated like notes in a melody, echo across the canvas, tying both moments into a single visual rhythm.