Picture "Essence of Nature I" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Picture "Essence of Nature I" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
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original painting | signed | cyanotype + acrylic on canvas | on stretcher frame | size 100 x 70 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Essence of Nature I" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Original painting 2020, signed on the back. Cyanotype, acrylic on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Size 100 x 70 cm (h/w).
Cyanotype:
The unique printing technique called cyanotype makes it possible to "draw" directly with plant material. A photosensitive solution containing iron is applied to an image carrier and dried in a dark place. The artist then arranges materials collected in nature onto the image carrier. After exposure to sunlight, the materials are removed, and the medium is washed out. Afterwards, the chemical process produces the typical blue colour in the areas that were exposed. The unexposed areas remain white or grey. Finally, the artist finishes her works with sprayed or painted acrylic paint. She thus accentuates light and shadow effects.
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About Kathrin May
Kathrin May's works address the deep connection between human beings and nature. During her search for an expression that is as unadulterated as possible, she has found a distinctive language that connects the phenomena of nature with her emotional world.
The artist collects what the season has in store for her in the surrounding nature. For example, these can be branches, leaves, wild herbs, blossoms, and roots. She puts these together on her canvas to create completely new visual compositions. The play of colour creates light-filled plant-like silhouettes embedded within the contrast of multi-layered colour gradients as the background. Here, light meets darkness, stillness meets movement, and a crystalline dynamic spatiality emerges that repeatedly condenses and dissolves.
Kathrin May's works evoke sensual perception and deep feelings. Her works tell of the happiness of being in nature, of lightness and joie de vivre and the beauty of the moment.
Kathrin May is a freelance artist who lives and works in Hamelin, Germany. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, graduating as a master student. Her works are shown in national and international galleries and art institutions. In addition to exhibitions in Bonn, Düsseldorf and Madrid, she is now exhibiting her works for the first time in her hometown of Hamelin.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.