Profile (english)

German-born Beate immigrated to New Zealand in 1999 with her husband and son and is now living and working North of Auckland. Her passion for "everything artistic" was inspired by a creative mother and her up-bringing in Germany and Belgium.

After visiting a Technical College, graduating in Business Management and studying Interior Design, Beate has combined her life-long passion for Interiors, Art and Design with the learned skills in her career as artist and designer. For more than sixteen years Beate has created artworks in water colours, acrylics, objects, Digital Photo Art, Collages and Mixed Media to capture the beauty of nature and to unleash human expressions.
Painting large abstract works in her studio, designing children's clothing with positive messages, writing poems & short stories, collaborating with other artists or writers is only part of Beate's "freedom" of working as an independent artist. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, United States, New Zealand and in 2010 for the first time in Italy.

Statement

"I am an artist who is obsessed with forms, shapes, textures and colours - and with freedom. I think, that's why I finally became and artist. It is a priceless gift to have the freedom to express myself in a universal visual language, only limited by my own imagination and my own set of rules. I sometimes prefer not to explain my abstract works of art. I live and breathe through the process of creating. The outcome is what I am happy to offer the viewer to interpret and appreciate from their own perspective.
Each of my abstract paintings is a new challenge and reveals a fragment of life. It is the constant alternating process of concealing and uncovering, creating with my hands, exploring colours, textures and language. Through different media my art invites the viewer to contemplate further on a soul-searching moment – to experience a visual meditation. Beauty plays an influential role in my abstract painting style which continues to evolve into an ongoing artistic journey of discovery”.

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