Olvido los dรญas, las fechas y la hora, vivo sin reloj. Me siento como flotando en el tiempo, no hay direcciones, no hay “lรญmites duros”, no hay citas, no hay obligaciones. Sรณlo me despierto y repaso los asuntos diarios que todo pasa en la casa ya que no debemos salir de ella. Comencรฉ una serie llamada “Perdidos en el tiempo”. Son sรณlo dos pinturas todavรญa, pero parece que podrรญa ser mรกs.
Estoy en una burbuja de tiempo. Por un lado me siento como alimentado por tanto tiempo en mis manos, por otro lado me siento como en un barco sin timรณn. Estoy a la deriva, pero hay una corriente que me lleva en alguna direcciรณn. Parte de la corriente es la pintura.
Perditos en el tiempo 1 sold
Lost in Time 2
En este tiempo especial cambiรฉ mis hรกbitos de pintura. Estoy en una burbuja de tiempo. Por un lado me siento como alimentado por tanto tiempo en mis manos, por otro lado me siento como en un barco sin timรณn. Estoy a la deriva, pero hay una corriente que me lleva en alguna direcciรณn. Parte de la corriente es la pintura.
They are building new houses in my garden 2
They are building new houses in my garden 1
My tropical garden SOLD
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I forget days and dates and time, I live without a watch. I feel like floating in the time, there is no directions, no “hard limits” – no appointments, no musts. Just waking up and going over the daily business that all happens in the house as we are not to leave the house.I started a series called “Lost in time”. Its only two paintings yet, but it feels like it could be more.
I am in a time bubble. On one hand I feel like nourished by so much time at my hands on the other hand I feel like in a boat without rudder. I am drifting, but there is a current that carries me in some direction. Part of the current is painting.
Lost in time 1 sold
Lost in Time 2
In this special time I changed my painting habbits. I started to paint on paper – only on paper. Canvas, the underground I normally like to use, seems too durable, too long lasting. Paper is light, smaller, drifting, more open, not so serious, qualities that all seem to be more appropriate for this exceptional time. With paper I paint flat on my working table, which faces the window instead of working on an easel that makes me stand for light reasons with the back or the side to the window. So I contemplate for many hours the view, which is beautiful but now it shows a huge building place. They are building new houses in my earlier green zone!
They are building new houses in my garden 2
They are building new houses in my garden 1
My tropical garden SOLD
If you want to look at not hidden paintings you find these above and more in my Artwork section under Artist Support Pledge.
Hidden paintings
The other day I was a bit moody and longing not only for a long walk outside but was missing my paintings. More than 50 percent are locked-in as well, they are in galleries and a showroom! Now they are “Hidden Paintings”! In a little restaurant in Mijas I installed a beautiful wall with some larger paintings. They are hidden since 20th of January!
Hidden Paintings in Gallery Saphira & Ventura in New York
In October 2019 I delivered in person 12 paintings on board in this beautiful gallery in the heart of New York City.
I was so fortunate that some of them were part of a group show in February. Since then they are locked down. Now time goes and all the galleries are closed since long. New York is one of the most hit city by the Corona Pandemie. Who knows, when galleries and museums are opened again?
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Good news! Three – inbetween four (!) – paintings will go to a new home – as soon as the post offices open up again! It’s not a week yet that I sent out my newsletter about my participation in this wonderful initiative! (Want to know more about Artist Support Pledge? Click here!)
My Costa del Arte Collective colleague Annabel Keatley and I, who participate in the initiative of the Artist Support Pledge have event got the attention of the local press! The article is announced for next Friday! Its wonderful that we got so much attention through the internet! Especially as all art shows in Spain are canceled. We had planned and prepared for an exposition in Fuengirola “Sun and Shade” which should have started 20th of April. Of course is not going to happen. Hopefully we can open it in autumn.
We are still in a very strickt lockdown which was just prolonged till 10th of May. I sincerely had hoped for the permission to do some sport for an hour or so outside. But that seems not to be in the new decisions. My rescuer will be the trampoline – finally the new elastic bands arrived! Its a urgent contrast to standing and sitting work at the computer or the easel. So the trampoline is the only possibility to simulate running at the moment!
With the extended confinement I will have more of this special time to contemplate the view from my window – which I often do as it is beautiful – but I never used is as a source of inspiration for my paintings. The stand-still inspired me to do two exercises: a literal-stand still in my place and concentrating on what is in front of me AND to do the opposite of a stand still for my mind: move to do new things. This very special time gives a lot of chances to think about life.
Here they are, the paintings of the series “From my window”. The middle one is one of my rather realistic paintings and features the view. I love the bold colours in the flowers and in the “Building houses”. I am aiming to capture more the spirit of a situation than the real view of it. The flowers are out bursting in the planter of the balcony with the most incredible red and greens. The tropical garden holds a bit of a dreamy landscape (and is sold already to one of my newsletter subscribers). Enjoy!
New paintings
Spring flowers on my balcony 200 โฌ
Lost in Time 200 โฌ
View from my window – 170 โฌ
They are building houses in my garden 200 โฌ
SOLD – My Mediterranean garden
Spring uprising 200 โฌ
Still available
Red energy 200 โฌ
Still pink times 200 โฌ
where there is darkness there is light – 170 โฌ
Keep up your good spirit 170 โฌ
Flowers for Saint Patricks day 170 โฌ
So much in my head 170 โฌ
With a little tear in my eye but with a happy heart I will say “Good by” to these three as they have found very nice new homes:
SOLD Spring outbursting
SOLD Lost in time
SOLD From my window at a blue day
They were the favourite obviously – they would have found other houses as well. This is the wonderful and the sad thing about most art works: they are unique. So if you buy an original painting your are sure to have an unique piece of art in your home or office.
If you like art + puzzlesโฆ..here you have a great choice!
More than 8 puzzles easy, medium and rather difficult ones are waiting for you! Each of it an art work from me! You don’t need a huge table, just your computer!
Click onto the painting or the caption to get there!
Dear Art Lover
I am real excited! I bought a beautiful artwork made by my fellow artist Annabel Keatley.ย You can see it a bit furtherย below!
I have had the wish and plan to install in our apartment a gallery wall of small paintings by my artist friends for quite a while. But THIS was the final push to act:
The Artist Support Pledge
The Artist Support Pledge is an initiative started by Matthew Burrows, a painter based in London. It gives artists the opportunity to support other artists, and at the same time make some income in a time when we need alternative ways of showing our work. The idea is that the artist offers for sale works under โฌ 200, by posting them on their social media platforms (Instagram) and tagging them with hashtag #artistsupportpledge. When the artists have made โฌ 1,000 due to sales, she or he pledges to buy another artists work for the total of 200 Euro.
Based on trust, generosity and community spirit this initiative is bringing artists together and is also a great way for art lovers to find new artists and buy affordable art.
I couldn’t wait for selling enough because this was an opportunity!!! I have been in love with Annabels paintings for so long. The watercolor captures a view of Cabo de Gata by Annabel Keatley. See more of her work on her website and Instagram account. In the following I am presenting my first available works, so as to give you first option before my posts go live.
I sent out a newsletter two days ago and today I started to post my available works on my social media accounts. Already three are waiting to be shipped to their new home! You find me on Instagram here: oppellandhampelart and here on my Facebook account. If you don’t have one of these accounts you can follow my Post News on my website www.artgoppellandhampel.com by subscribing at the bottom of this page.
All paintings are offered unframed. Due to the post office being closed here in Spain, I will ship as soon as its possible. Shipping is not included in the price.
If you would like to buy a painting please get in touch and I will mark that painting sold when l put it up on my Social Media feed.
This is my first choice for the Artist Support Pledge Initiative
I choose works on paper. Most of them have been created during the lockdown.
“So much in my head” 170 โฌ
“Flowers for Saint Patricks day” 170 โฌ
“Keep up your good spirit” 170 โฌ
“Where there is darkness there is light” – 170 โฌ
Each of these paintings is ca. 41 x 30 cm , mixed media on paper and sells for 170 Euro.
SOLD “Spring outbursting” 200 โฌ
“Red energy” 200 โฌ
“Still pink times” 200 โฌ
SOLD “From my window at a blue day”
Each painting is ca. 50×32 cm, acrylic or mixed media on paper and sells for 200 Euro. If you wish so I send the painting with a white mat (passpartout) that can fit a standard frame. They will be signed in the front.
Last not least: Two paintings on stretched canvas!
SOLD “Lost in time” 200 โฌ
“Find your way!” 200 โฌ
More interesting art news here:
I have been writing in my Blog News about my private initiative to reward with one of my “Desert Trip Prints” those who donate more than 100 Euro to a welfare organisation in their community! I already had the pleasure to be rewarded with an artwork of my artist friend Anne Bedrick of whom I copied this idea. Read all details about the rules here: Do something for your community and be rewarded with art!
Here is something to spend your time joyfully (hopefully not stressed!) with art: Why you might be failing some paintings โฆ…because they are puzzles! This is a link to two digital puzzles ( a simple one and a complicated one) that will reward you in the end with the completion of one of my art works! Have fun!!
You find more puzzles of my art work on this puzzle page if you look for my name. This is my latest puzzle and painting: From my window: Plants are blooming again!
A happy and peaceful Easter and best health for all of you! Take care!
Click onto the painting or caption to reach the puzzle!
I love to create art and I love to visit art. Mรกlaga is a city with a great richness of museums, some very famous names included as there are: Picasso Museum, Thyssen Museum, Contemporary Art Museum (CAC), the Russian Museum ( from San Petersburg) and the Pompidou Museum and many more.
A very special placeโฆ.
“The only expressionist museum in Spain”, so labels Jorge Rando, the owner, curator and painter, his privat museum. He has strong links to many European countries and was just recently with his paintings in a great show in China. He also has strong links to Germany. When I visited the first time I saw an exhibition of paintings of Kรคthe Kollwitz, one of the most known German female artists of the 20th century.
This time the visite gave the chance to see a wide spectrum of the works of Jorge Rando, exhibited in 5 or 6 showrooms.
The museum is situated in the yet not so developed and posh areas from Mรกlaga (which adds to its charme!) and has a rich cultural life of its own. Its definitely worth a visit and worth to check out the cultural program!!!!
I visited the museum, which was founded 2015, for the second time. If you are looking for a place of art that also gives some room to contemplate, this is your place! Great atmosphere, very interesting exhibition, no entrance fee! And if you love art books: a long wall full of this treasure in the Library! Sit down and browse the books! Museum Jorge Rando!
This week I visited another fantastic exhibition in Marbella. The Gallery Isolina Arbulu , one of the treasure in Marbellas gallery world is worth to be discovered. Till end of March Isolina Arbulu is showing a very fine and silente exhibition – a combination of photos and sculptors that are in a great dialog with each other. The photos are taken during her activity as a consultant in the poorest regions of the world by ANGรLICA ARBULU. Angรฉlica tries to show the beauty in rather isolated places that don’t attract attention on the first glance. A wonderful match with theses photos are the taking sculptures by Mรกlaga artist STELLA KAMAZรN. Built from recycled materials the figures make a great link to the geographical areas where the photos come from. Stella shows nearly faceless figures which are lost in an other isolated world, the world of technique, phone and internet.
In the entrance hall
I was already taken by this wonderful combination in the entrance hall – such a great dialog between these two art works!
Here is a small choice of the art works to be seen!
The atmosphere of the gallery is very inviting, situated in a beautiful workplace. It has the notion of a very private house. We were happy to have Isolina as our guide and then the gallery for ourselves after having made a telephone appointment! Its a recommendation to make an appointment to be sure you meet Isolina Arbulu in person and get the interesting information about the exhibition.
I loved the title “Beyond the Horizon” and this description very much, especially as I was also engaged with the horizon when I working on my “Desert Trip Print Series”.
I am very excited: The show is up! And I am in! Till 20th of Februar you can see this in the gallery!
NEW YORK
Saphira & Ventura Gallery till 21th of February!
6 of my paintings 12โx12โ ( 30×30 cm) are sitting in this mid-town New York gallery and are finally on the stage! Here it is: 5th of February to 21th of February you can see my paintings in this lovely group show having their debut in the center of New York. Wish I were there! ( The planning to do it in January has been postponed).
Read about my first exciting visit in the New York Gallery Saphira & Ventura, where I arrived with a huge suitcase of paintings…..Click here!
And here you see some photos from the great opening!
Saphira & Ventura 2
Saphira & Ventura 4
Saphira & Ventura3
Saphira & Ventura 5
Saphira & Ventura 6
In front of the blue paintings
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And keep in mind: Valentines Day is arriving sooner as thought!
Here you find a limited Fine Art printing edition that is inspired by my journeys to rather exotic places. “The Desert Trip Prints”. I am really excites about this project as it is the first time ever I work with prints. I am happy to be able to offer my artwork for an affordable price for those who love it. The print series is now released and available from the 25th of January to till the 8th of February 2020!
And here a first view of the prints…May be you are looking for a lovely Valentines Day gift? These prints are unique and very special! There are only 10 of its kind in the world actually only 8 of two of the paintings !
11 prints on Fine Art Paper Rag – choose one or two or more
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“The Desert Trip Prints” special offer for newsletter subscribers will end 20th of January- the release date for โthe world outside this communityโ is Saturday, 25th of January!
Valentines Day is not far aheadโฆ.
If you want to see a bit of what inspired me, brows through my desert photos here!
At moments I provide a special time restricted offer. You will find it here on this page. The first to know about this offer are my email subscribers. They will get first notice and first choice.
I work on a limited Fine Art printing edition that is inspired by my journeys to rather exotic places: “The Desert Trip Prints”. I am really excites about this project as it is the first time ever I work with prints. I am happy to be able to offer my artwork for an affordable price for those who love it. The print series will be released 17th January 2020 with a special offer for my email subscribers and later in the month, on the 25th of January , it will be announced on social media.
And here a first view of the prints…May be you are looking for a lovely Valentines Day gift? These prints are unique and very special! There are only 10 of its kind in the world!
Eleven beautiful prints on 300 gram paper rag!
If you are interested to be one of the first to get notice and have the advantage of first glance and first choice for a very special price you can join my newsletter here. I Normally my newsletter will be English, but sometimes I write them in German and Spanish too.
I would be happy to welcome you on my Newsletter list. You receive- about once a month – news about expositions I am participating in and see my latest works. I share time by time visits to fellow artists studios, expositions I love and impressions of museums I have visited. You will be the first to get information about special offers and who has a view behind the curtain. Join my list here below, put in your email in the next field.
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“The Desert Trip Prints” special offer for newsletter subscribers will end 20th of January- the release date for โthe world outside this communityโ is Saturday, 25th of January!
End of the year 2019 my schedule was still rather blank – only a few days into the new year it already gets a bit crowded with exhibitions!
NEW YORK
Saphira & Ventura Gallery 04th of February 2020
Date has been changed!!!! see below!
12 of my paintings 12โx12โ ( 30×30 cm) are sitting in this mid-town New York gallery and are waiting for their stage call! Here it is: 4th of February to 20th of February my paintings will have their New York debut in a group show – wish I were there! ( The planning to do it in January has been postponed). The gallery has not yet announced it in public – seem to be a secret still – so I will keep you posted!
Read about my first exciting visit in the New York Gallery Saphira & Ventura, where I arrived with a huge suitcase of paintings…..Click here!
COSTA DEL SOL
Las Lagunas, Mijas 24th of January 2020
More on the sunny side of the world the the never tired great art lover Raphael Fernandez Pacheco has organized a new exhibition in the beautiful exhibition room in Las Lagunas, Mijas. My artist fellow from Costa del Arte Collective , Sally Hirst and I will take part in this interesting group show of Spanish and International artists.
If you happen to be at the Costa del Sol, safe this date: 24th of January 2020. The exhibition is open till 10th of February. Inauguration 24th of January at 8 pm. You are very welcome!
Get a short impression from December 2018 exhibition in the beautiful rooms of the Casa Cultura, Las Lagunas, Mijas Costa
WORLDWIDE RELEASE. An experiment.
“THE DESERT TRIP PRINTS” Release date for Subscribers 17.01.2020, Public release 25.01.2020
The Internet offers incredible possibilities! 2019 was definitely my Internet-Work-Shop-Fan year! During one of these beautiful internet workshops – in this case โ The small art challengeโ of Sergio Gomez, an artist and curator from Chicago I used my holidays in Palm Springs and the surrounding deserts to create a lovely digital series of my desert trip.
This in itself was an experiment. Finding a printer who is specialized in Fine Art Prints needed a lot of time, many trial and errors and test prints. This was another adventure. But that is done!!! Now I hold the prints in my hands, beautiful colors, wonderful paper, nice look and nice feel, printed by a very professional print shop. Offering my art worldwide with an online release now is the next experiment I am going to go for.
Special offer for my newsletter readers
A I have a special offer for my newsletter subscribers: a preview for some 4 days, to be the the first to see โThe desert trip printsโ and choose from this series of 11 prints, which will be published as a Limited Edition of 10 prints each painting, all hand signed and numbered by the artist. The release date for subscribers is 17th of Januarytill the 20th of January 2020.
Saturday the 25th oh January the series will be released via my website, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn worldwide. This special offer will be available for two weeks.
If you are interested to be with the first to be informed about my new works, exhibitions and artists adventures, join my VIP email list here. Of course you can cancel it when ever you feel like it.
You want to sneak in some photos of my desert trip, that inspired me for this series? Click here!
And if you want to eat in Mijasโฆ.see my paintings there!
Paintings in Alboca Gastro, Mijas
Till end of March you will be able to enjoy “Dine and Vine” with view on my paintings in “Alboca Gastro” a charming small restaurant just near the large plaza of Mijas. Thanks to Rafael Fernandez Pacheco who is a great ambassador of the arts I have the opportunity to show some of my larger paintings to “the world”. As the restaurant will be closed from 20th of January to 4th February . My paintings will be to be seen through February and probably March too.
I have been venturing the idea to make our home a place to feature exhibitions time by time, to make it an event ย gallery. That would be very convenient for me as an artist, but it was more a thought than a plan. So when I heard about Gallery โArt at Homeโ I was very keen to see it and meet the people who have the courage and spirit to do it in real!
Veronique Benouaich has maintained ย and nourished her dream of a gallery of her own. She always enjoyed art very much. When moving from Paris to the South of France she became very good friends with many artists. When moving from France to Winter Park in Florida she finally ย fulfilled the dream of establishing ย a gallery ย in the ย new house near Orlando.
Veronique and her husband
She brought over many of the delicate art works from her artists friends in France and she and her husband transformed their new house into a space that served as a gallery and as a home. Regularly she presents new artists besides her rather steady exhibition. A Vernissage and the Finissage are the two official days for the gallery show, but visits of this beautiful white home and gallery are welcome in between by appointment.
Featuring a Korean Artist and several French artists in Winter Park
We had the pleasure to see some very delicate and explorative art by some of Veroniques artist friends and the featured Korean artist Hye Shin, who works with textil and paper elements.
Art work by Hey Shin
Art work by Hey Shin
Standing in front of a work by Hey Shin
A ย very attractive privat art exhibition
I enjoyed very much the visit and Veroniques explanation of the outstanding art works and the ideas behind them and unusual materials that were used. Itโs a very special chance to look at art in a ย private atmosphere.
I remembered that two of my first exhibitions took place in the stunning house of my friends who were so friendly to offer there white walls to my paintings and we had a great time inviting their friends and mine.
Do you have experience with privat exhibition as an artists or visitor? What do you think about it?
If you happen to be in the Orlando region and you want to enjoy the exquisite visit to โArt in a Homeโ you ย will find all information atย Daver Art Gallery ย !ย
Or send me a note. Want to see more art? TAPP HERE.
Before we left for the United States I had the pleasure to bring some of my paintings to the Art Gallery van Gestel in Marbella. This gallery is situated at the famous Orange ๐ Place in the beautiful old town of Marbella since 30 years. To get the pictures there, we had to carry them through half the old town, no chance to get there by car. Fortunately, paintings on stretched ย are very light and the sun was shining (as almost always!). I am very happy to see that my treasures found such a nice place to be seen and purchased ๐๐๐!
The gallery shows a lot of Spanish and international artists over two levels in one of this wonderful old Spanish houses. I feel very honored to be part of this collection! ย Its worth a visit, I can tell!
Here?
Or here?
Nicely enough we could help at once to place or hang my paintings and I could see how they add some joyful colors to the nice setting. If you happen to be in Marbella, donโt miss the Plaza de los Naranjos ( one of THE tourist magnets!) and visit the gallery, which is at one of the corners of this beautiful place!
found a place on the wall
This one
โPlaytimeโ
โFlowers dancingโ
Here?
โPlaytimeโ
โFlowers dancingโ
This one
found a place on the wall
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Have you ever visited a โFriendโ you only met on Facebook?
Are you really my friend?โ I once saw an exhibition in MassMoCa (the largest modern art museum in US – absolutely worth a visit) which had this title. A photographer traveled through the world to meet many of ย her Facebook friends! It was such an impressive exhibition and idea.
Last week I met my Facebook friend Anne Bedrick Fine Art in Palm Springs whom I โknowโ since some time, we had several little chats going forth and back. Anne is a super organized person and has built up her art career in the last years with success. She was definitely one of the reasons I am in Palm Springs now. Planing our trip to California I remembered that she had moved here and I startet to collect information about the place and it sounded quite tempting! So we are here!
A very special event: Visiting a Facebook Artist Friend!
It was a great meeting, wonderful to chat with this fellow artist and to see her beautiful paintings in real that were already so familiar to me !!! We both are colorists, we love colors and cannot do without it. Anne shares her studio with her little dog, while my studio company is Miez, the cat. Anne is one of the best organized artists I know. She showed me her organization system to follow up her paintings, great! I wish I was disciplined enough to adopt this system. She even makes a little exact plan for her exhibition walls in the next art fair!
I LOVE TO GET TO KNOW NEW ARTIST FRIENDS!
Did you ever visit a Facebook friend? How is your experience? And do you have a studio company pet?
Anne and two of her โCut inโ creations
The exact plan for her next booth! How I admire that! My way is more : come, see, hang ๐
I call it an organized working place !
Everyone has a bathroom – everyone has room for original art!
A studio company who doesnโt talk and criticizes too much is a real help! My cat is doing her job very good, but she loves to place herself on not quite dry paintings โน๏ธ
What an excellent and exciting day! At the 19th of Octoberย we crossed over by ferry from New Jersey to freezing cold New York , an adventure in itself! My husband nicely helped me to transport 16 (!) paintings and 12 frames- you cannot imagine what a large suitcase we carried around ( besides the other 4 large ones on our flight from Spain to New York). I had put down a wish this year in May in the Artist 2 Life CVP 19 program,ย which I attended. Myย wish was to present my art in New York! Not long after doing this, I was contacted by a representative of the gallery!ย ย Life takes wonderful paths sometimes!
All the paintings were accepted but then I kept 4 and Ieft 12 of the 30×30 cm series at SAPHIRA&VENTURAย GALLERYย ย in central Manhatten. Can you imagine, I was standing in that gallery, a dream becoming trueย and didย not manage to separate from all of my paintings! Somehow they became my kids.
Great surprise gave me the gallery: 4 of my paintings were presented the same evening in the show โThe bonds of loveโ and I could be present at the opening which was well visited and even added a wonderful performance of which you here see only the mask! The exhibition is to be seen till 28th of October.What a story! My paintings will be presented in several shows over the year 2020! Super exciting!
PS If you would like to know about the Internet program of Art2life CVP19 let me know! I did enjoy it very much and it inspired my art enormously!
Picassos birthplace is Mรกlaga. As one of its very famous sons he is a visitors magnet and gets quite some attention with a birthhouse to be visited, a Picasso museum and of course a celebration of his birth day. This year in October it would have been his 124 birthday which is celebrated with an โOctubre Picassianoโ. Many events will take place and artists willl exhibit paintings that are related to Picasso.
I was invited but hesitating ย whether to take part in this challenge or not. I am not so much the artist who follows a concept. But good thing came out of it: strolling through the Picasso Museum I started to get more involved with the idea of doing a painting inspired by the great masters work. I fell especially in love with his pink period and the animals he painted. This months you can see my painting in the Galeria Javier Romรกn in Mร laga together with 30 more surprising art works. ย Entrance free and just round the corner of Picassos birthplace in Mร laga. The exhibition is open till 20th of November.
A very productive summer! More than 20 paintings finished!
Looking back: This summer seems to have been very intensive. Family visits, expositions, art fairs, a lot of traveling and CVP 19.
Time by time an artist needs some new input besides visiting museums and exhibitionsย or looking for inspiration in the surrounding. So I decided to embark on an internet course which is called: “Creative Visionary Path”. Nicholas Wilton and his team delivered a workshop that was impressive with all its wealth of information, practical examples and personal attention that was given,ย despite having hundreds of attendees. I really was impressed by the quality of teaching and organization.
It has been a very good, highly interesting and very supporting experience!!!! Three months (and more) full of information, explanation and videos, life calls, painting, artist community and a lot of experimenting and learning! I am still digesting the information I got and the techniques that I experimented with and the experience I made. In one sentence: it was all worth it. If you want to know, just let me know via Email
If you want to have a short insight into my working style, have a look here:
Creating while traveling – a special challenge
As I am not a special friend of water color (quite honestly: I don’t know how to handle them) neither of crayons, I have not done a lot for my art practice, when traveling. From CVP something special I took out for me (besides many good other things) was working with sketchbook and gouache. Normally I am not a fan of neither the one nor the other –
Artist studio on a hotel table
this has changed. I was very happy while traveling to have the gouache colors with me, who are a bit like acrylic but make working so much easier when traveling – and so much cleaner. So I could go on with my 30×30 cm boards even in a hotel or in a friends house. ย And it probably will serve me again for our next journey which is already planed!
The harvest: More than 25 new paintings!
More than 20 panels, all 30×30 cm, (partly wood, carton or hard board) I have been working on. A small choice I will show you here:
limited pallet, mixed media
30×30, on pallet, mixed media
30×30 cm on wooden panel, 30×30
The pink arc 23,5×15,5 cm streched canvas
20×30 cm streched canvas
30×30 cm carton with linen , gouache
30×30 cm carton with linen , gouache
2019CV09 30X30 on wooden panel, mixed media
S&V.2019CV012 30X30 on wooden panel, mixed media
If you want to see all the 25 panels that were done since May, tapp here.ย ย You will find a (nearly) full overview over the works.
Picassos birthday 18.10.19 – next art event in Mรกlaga!
In October, accompanying Picassos birthday, a lot of events will take place in Mรกlaga. One of it will be an exhibition of Picasso inspired art works in the Galeria Javier Romรกn, which is only some steps away from the birth place of Picasso at the Plaza de la Merced.
I painted a Picasso inspired painting for this show – as well did my artist friend from Costa del Arte Collective, Anouk Slegers. In preparation for this painting I visited the Picasso museum (which is worth while a visit!) and studied some books featuring his life and his work. As always, the more you learn about an artist, the more interesting he gets. I was especially fascinated by his blue and pink period – no wonder, I love pink and you will find it in many of my paintings! And his paintings of animals fascinated very much, especially the cats – partly in deconstruction ways and ever so expressive! So I was inspired by these most admired items! Come and see! The exhibition will be open till 18th of November – while I will be still on the other side of the big sea!
This is just a little part of the painting….
The cat who didn’t catch the bird.
Next Art Event in Germany! CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR !
Now, that the summer comes to an end, the next events are already set.
Some of my art will travel and be presented by “Javier Roman Galeria” Mรกlaga, in October in Essen, Germany, at the ART RUHR – an art fair that focuses on innovative ย art. Unfortunatelyย I can not attend the show, – I will be in the USAย meanwhile.
C.A.R. Contempary Art Ruhr 25.-27.10.19
The fair will be situated in the beautiful Zeche Zollverein – such a pity I cannot see it and YOU all! Its quite exiting for me! While my paintings travel to the C.A.R., I will be visiting some New Yorker Galleries that I know through Instagram and I am curious to see them in reality.
Planning the next exhibition with the Costa del Arte Collective in Nerja!
The Costa del Arte Collective is applying to have a show in Nerja next year March! Keep you are fingers crossed, that we manage to get into this very beautiful communal space! I will keep you posted.
I hope you make it to the CAR in Essen, when you are in Germany! Or hopefully we can meet in Nerja! You will gain interesting impressions any way and who knows, maybe a original art work for your soul and home! If you are interested in one of the 30×30 cm art works that I am showing here, let me know!
Have a good start back into the second part of the year!
Next art exhibition in La Cala de Mijas!/
La prรณxima exposiciรณn de arte en La Cala de Mijas.
Use Google translate / Usa el traductor de Google / Benutze Google translate
What a busy art time I had! The Art Walk in Cรณmpeta in April, “Mini Cuadros” in Almuลรฉcar in May, the International Festival of Art in Marbella in June and now showing till July ” We can do”, an exhibition of 13 lady artists, in Cala de Mijas in the Casa de Cultura.
Next exhibition: We can do it! in La Cala de Mijas!
The Inauguration will be Friday, 28th of June at 8 pm! I will participate with two or three paintings. Two of my fellow artists from Costa del Arte Collective will show there works too: Anouk Slegers and Lieuwke Loth! This exhibition was curated by Rafael Fernandez Pacheco, who is a great art lover and probably features every exhibition to be seen in Mรกlaga. This is the third exhibition I am invited to participate!!! Would love to see you there!
The International Festival de Arte in Marbella, a review /
El Festival Internacional de Arte de Marbella, una reseรฑa.
A real fascinating event took place last week in Marbella. The Festiarte, a great art show that featured more than 100 artists in 60 stalls by the organised by the town of Marbella and Javier Roman (Delegaciรณn Cultural del Ayuntamiento de Marbella (@delegacionculturamarbella) y por Marco Eventos Culturales).ย We stayed 4 days and evenings – opening times were till 11 pm! – on the beautiful place with the Dali statues and the view to the sea. It wasย a great community of artists and many many visitors, who had a lot of choice to see and buy interesting artworks of different kinds: pottery, statues, photography, painting and more.
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Costa del Arte Collective at FestiArte
Two tents of CdAC
Trying to install the exhibition
Wind was a challange…
“Smile for life” by Lieuwke Loth
View into the two stalls
by Anouk Slegers
Entrence table
“Freedom” by Lieuwke Loth
by Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel
Stall of Gerrit Oppelland-Hampel
by Sally Hirst
Mini Cuadro series 20x20x4
The four days were a great adventure and success. And a real challenge! We got the tents with a nice lightening system but no hanging system at all. But with some tools, a lot of phantasy how to manage and a lot of patience everybody worked it out. A huger challenger was the wind, some days it had to be called storm. Coming back from a break we found a lot of the paintings on the floor, luckily there was no damage at our art! I took the opportunity to show some larger works, which got some attention.
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Think big – dream in color 160×140 cm
Dreaming about Greenland 160×140 cm
Woodland 150×130 cm Acrylic on Canvas
A little memory to some other stallsโฆ.
Press
Very happy was the Costa del Arte Collective about a nice article in EuroWeekly, written by Nicole King! Thank you Nicole!
Lately I started with a lot of experiments – time by time an artist needs some freshness in her/his head and new inspiration. Finding new ways, collect new experience, has to question and expand her/his style. See some of the experiments here.
I give me a rather hard time, as I try to prepare for quite some traveling lying ahead of us. To stay tuned in my painting praxis I decided to take a sketchbook. I am not a great friend of sketchbooks and do not really a praxis. I like big formats and acrylic paint – that is quite a dirty job and asks for a lot of material. My trial with water color nhttps://artgoppellandhampel.com/?p=3384&preview=trueever gave me any satisfaction. So now I try how works Gouache. Quite fine, I can say after my first trials.
I love the old farmhouses in Andalusia, with all there add-ons and partly deconstructions they seem to tell a story of live. So I was fascinated by this one near Tarifa. The dog I fall in love with on my walk at the Open Studios Gaucรญn. You will find a photo of her there. If you are interested in this art walk, read more here.
Old farmhouse on canvas
sketchbook 1
sketchbook 2
sketchbook 3
sketchbook 4 – on paper
My passion in painting is color. I could say: my painting is all about color. So now I went on a diet. A strong challenge to brake familiar habits. The sweet Lana, the dog above,ย belongs to this series.
Some of the paintings are on wooden board. It gives a lot of possibilities to be mal treated. You can cut it, scratch it, work with hard tools on it. It invites all kind of spatulas. Some of this treatments a canvas would not be so happy with. Other experiments are on paper DIN A 4. Somehow a much smoother process.
Beautiful dog, Acrylic, on wooden panel, 30x30cm
home sweet home – on on wooden panel, 30×30 cm
In my wonderful park – 30×30 cm on board
No title 2 on paper
no title 3 – on paper
sketchbook 4 – on paper
Normally I love to work with rather bold and vibrant colours. So the challenge lies in tamed colours. This ones are not quite tamed, the motto was more: Go wild….
Black and red
Black and blue
Black and yellow
This are my experiments with a very reduce color palette. A lot of interesting new experiences through diet! Sometimes I feel very hungry for my familiar food ๐ Wonder what comes next.
20×20 cm on canvas
21×29 cm on paper
Next comes an exhibition in Marbella in which I and the members of Costa del Arte Collective will be taking part.ย More than 90 artists will show there work in the Avendida del Mar – that’s in the center down to the sea. Opening the 20th of June at 19:30 to 23:00ย till 23rd of June, open from 16:30 to 23:00 hours.
Very much hoping to see you there!
If you are at the Costa del Sol, don’t miss it! Get more information here: www.festiarte.art
Costa del Arte Collective showing small works in Almuรฑรฉcar!
The Costa del Arte Collective is quite excited. We are going to have an exhibition in Almuรฑรฉcar in May – in the Espacio Creativo of Annabel Keatley. The exhibition will be opened on the 3rd of Mayat 7 pm and can be visited until the 24th of May. So I spent quite some time concentrating on Mini Cuadros. I am pretty sure, that it will be a wonderful exhibition. I already had a sneak preview of some of the works to be seen of my artist colleagues Annabel Keatley, Anouk Slegers, Lieuwke Loth and Sally Hirst.
Exhibition in Espacio Creativo in Almuรฑรฉcar in May 2019
Poster Mini Cuadros
Mini Art Workshops will accompany the exhibition of Mini Cuadros!
The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of exclusive workshops held by Annabel, limited to only three participants for each workshop!
I am rather tempted to take part, as Annabel works with with special techniques – as all of the members of Costa del Arte Collective do.
Take your chance to participate in a series of creative workshops. The workshops will be held in the mornings, from 10-12.30 pm with refreshments included.
The classes are designed to combine and connect with eachother, with a focus on enjoying the process of making work and learning new techniques. The workshops are as much for beginners as for experienced artists.
Some of my Mini Cuadros you can see in Almuลรฉcar
I was rather engaged to create some Mini Cuadros, with time sitting in my neck, as the Art Walk Cรณmpetaย was also in front of me very soon.
Trees in the night
Trees and dog
TB Palms black and white
Palms 20×20 on wood
I have been working on the Greenland series as well, making it a collection of five, acrylic on paper. They will be framed with museum glas. Pretty to look at. If you like to see the exciting photos of our Greenland journey tap here.
Dreaming of a shelter
1. Pink house at the fjord
goh 2018
My new color preferences are shown in this series – still no name for it. They are 20x20x4 cm on stretched canvas and bring some energy to the room. It seems, I am just in love with orange and a bit of violet.
A custom made art tote bag from your chosen artwork!
Did you ever have the idea, that you could have a custom made tote bagโฆ.you know, plastic is out and tote bags are in! And you can use a much nicer one than those which you find in the grocer shop! You can be stylish and arty with an art tote bag!
Get a art tote bag with your new painting!
When you purchase an art work from my page there will be a Tote bag coming with it!!!! So you don’t need to invite people home (though an “art warming party” would be a nice idea too, wouldn’t it?) but you can take your newly acquired artwork out!!! Extra offer: when you purchase one of my paintings* at the Art Walk Cรณmpeta, you get a Tote bag with your painting on it!
* Painting over 200 โฌuro
TB Think big
TB Wonder flowers
TB play tine
TB Grey white pink
TB Thinking of Saint Tropez
TB black and white
TB Pleasure
TB Zรคrtliches Grau
TB birds
Beach bag Wood Land
Tote Bag Wood Land
Beach bag Wonder world
Tote bag
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