Heide Schimke

„... The color — when I disturb it with a whisk — forms bubbles. If these dry out quickly in the warm midday sun, the color seems so much more vivid. It is more effective, feels more sprawling. This is particularly good for the mud images. The color flows slowly and I can easily control its path by moving the painting. So now I also have these pictures full of color besides the washed out ones. But it is particulary important to be patient with them: Each surface has to dry out — sometimes for very long. With the washed out pictures it is more about fast reactions instead. Sometimes I miss the moment and too much has dried out - then I simply start over again...“
— Excerpt from the travel diary Australia 2012

Change

The state of the subject in any instant is determined by its ethereal structure. This change is what challenges me in my artistic work. These mixed technique images are layered on passe-partout carton and acrylic glass. More...

Foliation

To me, working with foil means grappling with layers and gradients. This non-absorptive medium takes away all dependability but also allows for infinite possibilities. More...

Fields

Panta rhei - everything flows: The algea in the sea's currents, the blades of gras at a small stream, the flowers and buds in the silky wind. Games in the rhythm of the tides, abstract annotations on the music and movement of colors. More...

Over Time

It was exciting to learn that the aboriginals do not subscribe to a linear concept of time. Dreamtime was both a long time ago, is here and now, just as it will be tomorrow. In this sense, the past remains present for all eternity and represents a complex understanding of lived memory. More...

Desire Lines

The journey to the end begins already at the point of creation. Traces disappear. These are the lingering echos of each moment. More...

A Long Way Down

I take photographs during my travels through australia that do not survive for long: In the studio, they succumb to the submersion in gasoline, the abrasion with sandpaper and the application of acrylic paint. More...

Space

Instead of yielding a descriptive depiction, colour creates an associative emotional space. More...

Surfaces

Every day this island suprises me. This untamed island, so explosive, so energetic, awash in sand when the unyielding pacific wind sweeps across its beaches. The dark clouds that announce a rain that never comes. And suddenly, in a moment of calm, this striking blue of the sea. I spend hours at the Orange Creek. Such flowing colours... More...

Branch Out

Under the influence of gravity and rotation: A canvas is like a world for itself, on whose surface the apparently coincidental changes of orientation play out. More...

Wavy Lines

The paths we have to walk in life are wavering, shaped by the history of ourselves and our ancestors. More...