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Target Series
This series of circular paintings is very meaningful to me. It began in 2008 with a small
book about painted targets I found in an antique book store in Tübingen/Germany. These
wooden targets, used by shooting clubs in the 18th and 19th century, were decorated with
painted animals or human figures and I immediately got the idea of painting targets with
landscapes symbolizing the threatening of nature.
The first paintings of this series were really showing targets, landscapes on circular
canvasses with several shooting holes. But then I realized that these holes needed bigger
light planes like an open sky or a meadow to have some effect. On undergrowth and foliage
they would disappear. Therefore I started using circles which subdivided the landscape in
several segments contrasting against each other by lighter or darker colors. This gave me
also the freedom to create a color composition no more bound totally to the colors I saw in
nature.
In the course of time these circles have gotten a meaning far beyond the original target
character in a more cosmic sense.
All paintings of this series are in acrylic and have a diameter of 20".
This series of circular paintings is very meaningful to me. It began in 2008 with a small
book about painted targets I found in an antique book store in Tübingen/Germany. These
wooden targets, used by shooting clubs in the 18th and 19th century, were decorated with
painted animals or human figures and I immediately got the idea of painting targets with
landscapes symbolizing the threatening of nature.
The first paintings of this series were really showing targets, landscapes on circular
canvasses with several shooting holes. But then I realized that these holes needed bigger
light planes like an open sky or a meadow to have some effect. On undergrowth and foliage
they would disappear. Therefore I started using circles which subdivided the landscape in
several segments contrasting against each other by lighter or darker colors. This gave me
also the freedom to create a color composition no more bound totally to the colors I saw in
nature.
In the course of time these circles have gotten a meaning far beyond the original target
character in a more cosmic sense.
All paintings of this series are in acrylic and have a diameter of 20".
| Silent Spring 2008 |
| Veil of Peace 2008 |
| Morning Silver 2008 |
| Old Warrior 2008 |
| Mythes' Arrival 2009 |
| Summer Cliff 2009 |
| Golden Beach 2009 |
| Stairs of Hope 2009 |
| Seminary Woods 2009 |
| Bridal Jewelry 2009 |
| Coyote's Home 2009 |
| Winter's Edge 2009 |
| Sentinels 2009 |
| Eden's Edge 2009 |
| Passing Time 2009 |
| Hint of Springtime 2009 |
| Warming up 2009 |
| Aurora's Mirror 2009 |
| Poesy of Wilderness 2009 |
| Genesis 2009 |
| Yggdrasil 2009 |
| Menetekel 2009 |
| Golden Poplar 2009 |
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| Traces 2011 |