Susanne Pohlmann
There is flow, there is flight, there is flutter - there is movement in Susanne Pohlmann's large-format paintings, which simultaneously transmit balance and release to the viewer. With intense colours and an impasto application of paint, the artist shows us her unmistakable style: Susanne Pohlmann works on the surface, not in the line - this is what makes her work so remarkably interesting. Objects are reproduced, but not in their actual, naturalistic form, but as the artist perceives them - she shows the effect on her sensibility, namely expressive and moving.
Susanne Pohlmann seeks the elemental and unchanging behind changeable places and situations. Numerous journeys and encounters with other people and places have shown the painter how strongly nature and culture are interwoven and shaped by each other. The simultaneous localisation of dynamics and tranquillity in her pictures creates an underlying mood that is also transmitted to the viewer.
One of the artist's main themes is seascapes. They are constantly changing and transient and only ever snapshots. Yet they symbolise the timeless and imperishable and convey the simultaneity of calm and movement. In her series on the theme "Ocean of Desire - An Ocean Full of Wishes", the experience of nature is shown in its various dimensions. It is important for the artist to show only excerpts to give the viewer room for individual additions. Due to the accentuated application of paint, the spraying white spray seems to emerge from the picture. The horizontal lines of the sea surface break against the vertical lines of the shoreline, drawing the viewer into the emerging dynamics of the picture.
The freelance artist and trained educator Susanne Pohlmann lives in Berlin. After graduating in social work and social education, she went on to study fine arts at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover, Germany. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, in which she has presented her works since 2001, Pohlmann has led numerous painting and holiday courses for more than 30 years and offers painting trips for children, young people and adults in Germany and abroad.
