To Paint

To paint

is like a ritual for me.

It is the laying bare of myself.

Standing in or opposed to a surface, a space, a ground, on which to communicate and extend my being onto.

My gesture, my mark, my emotion, my thought.

It is the soft caress or sometimes over eager

gushing of emotions, tearing out from inside of myself.

In the discourse of presence, happening right in-front of myself.

The discourse of me represented through colours, form structure, composition, and what unfolds for me to see.

Painting, like the moment of life.

Surrenderance to the structure, the surface, sometimes already having marks on it, coming in, to treasure what inspires me, what I still want to discover to find or what I want people to find inspiration in.

But in the end it is not about the other, it is just about you, about me, and that moment of being free.

Of allowing nothing else, but mixing and choosing colours, tracing form and textures intuitionally.

Nothing purer, this being, my kind of meditation.

Like life itself, every painting a surprise, showing the treasures you could have not known before they reveal themselves before your eyes.

That is even if abstract it is a presentation of more of the conceptual rather then realistic, but signifying a philosophy of being, a philosophy of approach to life.

A philosophy of engagement and embracing of the senses.

The other becoming me, and me becoming it.

With the caress of my whole body, even cuddling, dancing, and stretching, sitting, rolling, walking, or tracing on it.

The energy, candle to electric light, highlights and shadows,

the gestures of paint and without paint,

my eyes, my nose, the smell, the touch, the feel, the sound, of movement

of rhythm, of pattern of decision shaping the expressed landscape of my inside.

Free.

Landscapes which only exist ones, in the painting of me.

It is a Reflection - Artist Statement

Carolin Rechberg is attracted to gathering marks, spills and stains, traces left by the process in the Environment. She accents what she sees in the sediments and textures, of aged fibers, experiences through exposure to the elements and used as ground for prior creation or expressive performance. The images evolve through instinct. It is a reflection. She dances with gesture until equilibrium is found in contrast, light and mood, with acrylics, aquarelle, tempera and oils, pushing and pulling composition, color and depth.

I am the Tool

my whole body is the tool

the use of space on a surface, in a space

equates to the importance of using oneself in space.

realising fundamentals such as composition, perspective, texture will give one the sensibility to apply that knowledge to areas of life and living

teaching the art of creation teaches the art of presence

an interdisciplinary approach and use of material to express ideas, sentiments or to process experience, is important and symbiotic to the interdisciplinary structure of life

i believe that the individual and community is the artwork constructed out of the process

like an artwork the human being undergoes process of creation and destruction to become a rendered piece or living artwork

i love to explore with material from different sectors of our infrastructure, inventing new forms to realise presence giving me the experiences my senses are after

i like to reapropriate matter for the experience

weather it be from construction, food,

key for me is the experience

feeling

i believe through the senses know thyself and therefore others and our surrounding

it creates consciousness

freedom in creating

resulting in peace within oneself

resulting in compassion for others

i love exhibiting in nature or urban environment

exploring outside of the deemed exhibition space

being life and living as the platform, the surface, and my presence, the tool making the marks with material i am exposed to and have access to

i see art as a tool for the pursuit of happiness

a tool to communicate and teaching communication

art brings people together

it is ageless

for everyone

with art you get to know your heart your mind your spirit and emotions

it is initially the roadmap to the ways of knowing

the importance of perspective, light