OUTSIDE

NEW BLACK WOODCUT PRINTS

I made a few more woodcuts during the last weeks. Have a look at my Etsy shop :)
More news to come up soon!

 

OLD MIXMAX

THINGS ON MY KITCHEN TABLE

NEW SUMMER PRINT

Do you also love the cute, small and pretty tasty, wild strawberrys?
I made a woodcut with nice bright colours of these cuties. (you can order a print here)

THE NIGHT LIGHTS

I grew up in a small village in the middle of Germany and every time I visit my parents it's fascinating how many stars you can see (at the stroke of midnight the village turns out every 2nd street light - so it is pretty dark). The night sky in the city is so different with all its light pollution it's hard to see the few really bright stars on the red sky. But back on the country side - in the summertimes, when the Perseids pass by (the days around the 12th of August) it's so great to lay down on the green roof of my parents house - with a sleeping bag and a big pillow - counting the falling stars!

SPRING SPRING

Finally it's spring!

I went to the park on this sunny day and everything around me seemed to be so alive. The trees are getting green and there are birds everywhere trying to collect moss and sticks for their nests. While sitting there I was able to follow the "long-tailed tit" and the also pretty small and so so cute "wren". I could sit there forever - just looking around.

PLANT MORE PLANTS!

I'm currently moving in together with my boyfriend. Our first own flat. Pretty big windows and it's so nice to have plants there. My plan is to grow A LOT of them!

ENOUGH ALREADY!

I love these foggy days – when everthing looks so silent and soft and a bit sleepy, BUT ...

 

It's time for a change now. 

Time for spring and sun and singing birds and blue sky and buzzing bees and flowers and green trees and walking outside in a t-shirt and and and ...

TO TURN BACK TIME

Every time when one year is over again it feels strange. The time is running and I start to think about all the things which happened during the past month of my life and which will come in this beginning new year.
Totally exciting!
I was at my parents house over Christmas – they have a few wooden boxes full with old familyphotos and I love to browse through them when visiting home. I found these two pictures of my younger mum and dad and really like the situations and composition. As I sad a few lines before – time is definitely running.

BEHIND DOORS

We found a box full of keys at my grandfathers place years ago. No idea where they all belong to, but they are all so beautiful. Thinking of the fact that every single one have got a different shape and different skill is totally exciting. Each one belongs to one specific door, perhaps a normal cupboard door, but it's also possible that it can open secret places! I'm sure there are doors which cannot be opend anymore because the fitting keys are lost, maybe I have got one of these keys now :)

FORGOTTEN PLACES

I love to explore hidden places and I'm sure there are so many forgotten rooms everywhere around us. Like this old swimmingpool, which you can find downstairs in a pretty normal office building. Over the years less and less people came down for a swim and soon nobody thought of it anymore, it disappeared behind doors and walls.



Old rooms and sometimes whole houses no one is using anymore are so interesting - they can tell so many storys from the past. To discover these places means so much fun to me - sometimes just emptyness and sometimes full with signs from the past - furnitures, pictures on the walls ...

One day I met a guy who told me a story about a friend who climed into an old abandoned hotel standing next to a waterfall in Austria. Because of entrapped moisture it was forced to close down - all the people went out of the building and left behind every single thing which was standing or laying around. It must have been like a time travel for this guy to get into these halls. Anyway - he was able to catch some really nice design-chairs and tables. Back home he refurbished them and was able to sell them for a lot of money. Nice story. :)

FERN LINOCUT PRINT

A few month ago I made a new print. A fern leaf, I love fern!
This time it's not woodcut, but linocut. With this material it's easier to cut out really thin peaces.
You can find and order it in my small etsy shop if you want to :)

SEE THE SEA

Last weekend we went to the North Sea, it's pretty close to Hamburg and it was a more than beautiful evening. The weather was perfect, a gorgeous sunset, amazing light, sheeps and birds everywhere, no wind at all, the smell of the sea, totally peaceful – and except the many birds which were talking to each other in their own languages it was completly quiet.

On our way back home we needed to stop to watch this smart fog for a while.