"SHORT BIOGRAPHY
After growing up in Switzerland I left for Florence, Italy in January 2006 to study drawing and painting under Maestro Micheal John Angel and Jered Woznicki at the Angel Academy of Art. In December 2009 I graduated and left Florence, filled with deep gratitude and the basics of drawing & painting under my belt. The real study can begin now!
In March 2010 I moved to Austin, Texas to become a Teaching Assistant at The Art Department (TAD) where I will be a student and also teach drawing foundations.
Spending many childhood days in the Swiss forests and mountains, I have always had a profound love and respect for nature. I am also blessed (or cursed?) with a deep interest in “the human experience”, an insatiable curiosity that urges me to question and think and change and seek and grow.
Art – drawing and painting – is my means to exploring and making sense of life, ultimately making my abstract research take shape in the material world.
I study and work passionately as a painter and illustrator as well as a teacher & speaker on the arts of drawing and painting.
A vast variety of artists inspire and influence my working and thinking. Among them are many of the “Old Masters” of painting, but also musicians, writers, photographers, actors, dancers, etc. To name a few:
Velázquez, Bonnat, Vermeer, Millais, Rubens, Bouguereau, Prud’hon, Mucha .
Some of the contemporary artists that are meaningful to me are included in the “Inspiration” link-list to the right of this page.
Online Communities such as conceptart.org and DAF (German) have been tremendous influences and sources of motivation and knowledge.
The writings of Andrew Loomis, Robert Beverly Hale, Harold Speed and Josh Waitzkin among others, have proven to be very stimulating & instructive.
LEARNING HOW TO DRAW
The more I learn to use my eyes the more beauty I can see in this strange and wonderful world we live in.
To me, truth, beauty and love all belong together inseparably and merging with them again and again through creating is what keeps my fire burning.
Becoming good at drawing demands practice. In it’s essence it is the same as music, the martial arts, mathematics… Learning any art involves the mind just as much as the hand. Honest introspection is as important as the actual process of drawing & painting. Also, we needs to have a dream, a vision.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing,
no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My vision is to pass on inspiration."
After growing up in Switzerland I left for Florence, Italy in January 2006 to study drawing and painting under Maestro Micheal John Angel and Jered Woznicki at the Angel Academy of Art. In December 2009 I graduated and left Florence, filled with deep gratitude and the basics of drawing & painting under my belt. The real study can begin now!
In March 2010 I moved to Austin, Texas to become a Teaching Assistant at The Art Department (TAD) where I will be a student and also teach drawing foundations.
Spending many childhood days in the Swiss forests and mountains, I have always had a profound love and respect for nature. I am also blessed (or cursed?) with a deep interest in “the human experience”, an insatiable curiosity that urges me to question and think and change and seek and grow.
Art – drawing and painting – is my means to exploring and making sense of life, ultimately making my abstract research take shape in the material world.
I study and work passionately as a painter and illustrator as well as a teacher & speaker on the arts of drawing and painting.
A vast variety of artists inspire and influence my working and thinking. Among them are many of the “Old Masters” of painting, but also musicians, writers, photographers, actors, dancers, etc. To name a few:
Velázquez, Bonnat, Vermeer, Millais, Rubens, Bouguereau, Prud’hon, Mucha .
Some of the contemporary artists that are meaningful to me are included in the “Inspiration” link-list to the right of this page.
Online Communities such as conceptart.org and DAF (German) have been tremendous influences and sources of motivation and knowledge.
The writings of Andrew Loomis, Robert Beverly Hale, Harold Speed and Josh Waitzkin among others, have proven to be very stimulating & instructive.
LEARNING HOW TO DRAW
The more I learn to use my eyes the more beauty I can see in this strange and wonderful world we live in.
To me, truth, beauty and love all belong together inseparably and merging with them again and again through creating is what keeps my fire burning.
Becoming good at drawing demands practice. In it’s essence it is the same as music, the martial arts, mathematics… Learning any art involves the mind just as much as the hand. Honest introspection is as important as the actual process of drawing & painting. Also, we needs to have a dream, a vision.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing,
no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My vision is to pass on inspiration."
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