My work largely takes shape in the landscape, in places that I spend a lot of time with. The spirit

of these places carries into works that will often go on over long periods of time and are painted

in a meditative, deep immersion and communion with the place. This is mostly the Taunus mountains in Germany.

Some works continue in the studio, and their subject continues its existence as an inner place.

I believe the material itself to have a memory and often existent marks will point me to what I will paint as though the painting knows something before I do. Sometimes whole landscapes might appear like this out of nowhere, as though from another time.

I also work a lot at the edge of the controllability of the paint, which comes out of my feeling for the fluidity of life and the effervescent life force flowing through all that is form. This sense of fluidity takes me into ever-changing territory and has recently led me to collect rocks on whom I found to be beautiful markings, bringing them out as little as possible with only ink, to show that they were not images of my mind but existent within the rocks already. Something similar always happens with the paintings too. Their logic is anchored in rhythm, in musicality and in a universal harmony or intelligence which I am led to follow. This is their true subject and it is why the landscape seems to be always simultaneously there and not there.

I am lured to search for that place where the primal, deeply instinctive sign language of the landscape takes shape, where no division between inner and outer life is drawn and where the landscape speaks, ever-forming its own alphabet, a language in itself.