Simone Westphal
Simone Westphal lives and works as a freelance artist in Potsdam and Berlin, Germany. She studied art in Cologne and fine arts at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. During her three-year stay in the USA, she learned various felt and paper techniques in New Mexico, which she now applies to her sculptural works.
The human being is the main subject of her paintings and sculptures - even her landscape paintings often focus on the human being as a reference point. The human being also creates the centre of content within the imagery. Simone Westphal is interested in "the in-between", the initially invisible, the background of life stories and personalities. Westphal is her protagonist representative and embarks in a quest for meaning in each picture. This analytical interest in people becomes clear with her series of "Regenbilder" (eng: "Rain Pictures"). Rain, which covers the glass or canvas in drops and streaks, blurs the view.
