Where do you gain ideas for your art pieces?

I have a very analytical way to ­approach to the development of a ­painting. This might seem strange but ­it has proved to be a constructive ­solution as yet... It seems not to ­have anything in common with creative ­freethinker, but it has a huge ­potential to develop coherent ideas. The­ first process of development consists ­of an intensive investigation. We try ­to find out which ideas are based on ­the script. In which time does the ­scenario take place? What feelings ­should be mediated when the viewer sees­ the finished scene? Here, many ­psychological factors play a role. What ­color is, for example, ­"fear"?
We dismantle the ­content of an image surgically and then­ we reassemble it piece by piece. These­ processes all run theoretically: At ­this point we still haven´t made a ­single stroke. Each single item is ­written separately. Something that I put­ in writing on paper, is something that­ I can paint later. I have a guiding ­principle therefore: I write to see ­what I think! This first point ­according to this principle is important­ to us to make sure that we not lose ­ourselves in the infinite possibilities ­of developing a painting. So we become ­even clear about what we really want ­to see...

Work experience

Director visual development
Matte ­painting-studio, ­
www.mattepainting-studio.com

Director ­multidimensional Design
Ambivalenz, ­
www.ambivalenz-ltd.com

Creative ­Director, 2D
3D•io, ­
www.3d-io.com

Art Director
Brand ­Competence, ­
www.brand-competence.de

Freier Art ­Director
RCC GROUP, ­
www.rcc-group.de

University Of Applied­ Sciences, Wiesbaden
Kommunikationsdesign

Awards

3rd Annual Int. River Valley Festival -­ Best Animation in Post Secondary-Canada,­ 2006

Int. Filmfestival LaMeko Landau ­(1. Prize/ Animation), 2005

Int. ­Filmfest Mechernich (1. Prize), ­2005

Kurzfiltage Lörrach (2. Prize), ­2005

Ohne Kohle Award Vienna (3. ­Prize), 2005

Age

32