Carolin Wehrmann Backlight LIV Painting

Biography

For her, in-depth studies of oil painting, especially the glazing technique with resin oil paint, are the technical prerequisite for achieving the desired possible depth and resolution, which are essential for the development of correctly effective light and wave refractions, atmospheric horizon depth and color refraction.

By simulating glaze painting, which has been tried and tested for over three centuries, she also achieves this fascinating depth effect in her new works in contemporary realism, the subtlety of which is particularly expressed in her water paintings, which have become a leitmotif of her work.

Painting the sea and water has always been considered the greatest challenge in painting. For them, the sea is also, in a transcendental sense, an expression of their striving for ideal states and for depicting original, intact nature. They also express her very own desire to make clarity and purity visible and are an expression of a search for depth with which she approaches things.

Until a few years ago her works predominantly showed traditional, masterfully painted marine compositions, but in the “Reflections” series she succeeded in significantly repositioning the water motif. She breaks through the conventional boundaries of genres and thereby creates her very own expression, with which she has succeeded in creating a cycle of images of the highest artistic rank.

The artist is represented internationally by selected galleries in which her original paintings are permanently represented, including in the USA, France, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany and Spain.

Carolin Wehrmann now lives with her two children and two dogs on a rural property between the Baltic Sea and Lübeck.