Carola X
I like to be in a good mood, interested in new things, enthusiastic about the unusual, fascinated by reality, quite impatient, often selfish, constantly confused, very stubborn, almost always happy, hardly optimistic, usually too loud, easily irritable, .
... all in all: very emotionally flexible!
My name is Carola Matthes. I live and work in beautiful Schleswig-Holstein, love the north, the typical atmosphere and all the weather here!
I didn't study art, but I'm not untrained either. Nowadays people say: I'm self-taught! That's fine by me! Painting has become an integral part of my life and I can't imagine life without it.
I LOVE PORTRAITS - ESPECIALLY OF WOMEN - WITH THEIR DIFFERENT MOODS AND THE INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR SOULS.
When I want to tell a story or show an emotion, it's all about capturing a person in the way they feel. I don't want to describe unreal stories or paint deliberately good-looking women!
Prettiness is nothing! Beauty is a lot, but it's not everything!
So what really makes BEAUTIFUL? Authenticity / life satisfaction / dignity / self-love / ... that radiates from the soul!
And so all these strong and also contradictory women can be seen in my artworks: Mostly in a good mood, but also sometimes energetic to angry, sometimes very tender or sugar-sweet, sometimes thoughtful or just happy, sometimes crazy, melancholic or freaked out...
The backgrounds for the actual artwork are created in many steps. Different materials, areas of color, lines, collages, structures and overlays. As a result, the portraits of women I paint on them have the ups and downs, wrinkles, scars and dimples that an exciting life brings with it.
THE X IS MY SYMBOL, MY FAVORITE.
For me, an X is a statement - straight, clear, impossible to knock over and open at the top. Maybe that's why I've always been so fascinated by it. They're everywhere in my house, just like that, statements. So it's no wonder that the X has also crept into my pictures ...
Sometimes it says: "That's it! And that's it!" Sometimes it symbolizes the unsaid, which simply stands in the room and invites you to ask. It puts the icing on the cake in the statement of a picture, as a placeholder for everything that is upright, straight and open for the future. Just X!
My name is Carola Matthes. I live and work in beautiful Schleswig-Holstein, love the north, the typical atmosphere and all the weather here!
I didn't study art, but I'm not untrained either. Nowadays people say: I'm self-taught! That's fine by me! Painting has become an integral part of my life and I can't imagine life without it.
I LOVE PORTRAITS - ESPECIALLY OF WOMEN - WITH THEIR DIFFERENT MOODS AND THE INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSION OF THEIR SOULS.
When I want to tell a story or show an emotion, it's all about capturing a person in the way they feel. I don't want to describe unreal stories or paint deliberately good-looking women!
Prettiness is nothing! Beauty is a lot, but it's not everything!
So what really makes BEAUTIFUL? Authenticity / life satisfaction / dignity / self-love / ... that radiates from the soul!
And so all these strong and also contradictory women can be seen in my artworks: Mostly in a good mood, but also sometimes energetic to angry, sometimes very tender or sugar-sweet, sometimes thoughtful or just happy, sometimes crazy, melancholic or freaked out...
The backgrounds for the actual artwork are created in many steps. Different materials, areas of color, lines, collages, structures and overlays. As a result, the portraits of women I paint on them have the ups and downs, wrinkles, scars and dimples that an exciting life brings with it.
THE X IS MY SYMBOL, MY FAVORITE.
For me, an X is a statement - straight, clear, impossible to knock over and open at the top. Maybe that's why I've always been so fascinated by it. They're everywhere in my house, just like that, statements. So it's no wonder that the X has also crept into my pictures ...
Sometimes it says: "That's it! And that's it!" Sometimes it symbolizes the unsaid, which simply stands in the room and invites you to ask. It puts the icing on the cake in the statement of a picture, as a placeholder for everything that is upright, straight and open for the future. Just X!
I am fearless in my art ... because I don't want to lock myself and my pictures into fears, plans or fixed ideas.
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