Tag: Contemporary Ink Painting
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Abstract Landscape Paintings: The Big Bang Series
New abstract paintings exploring creation and chaos, inspired by the Big Bang and shaped by the balance of yin and yang.
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Portrait and Figure Drawings: A Retrospective
Portrait, figure and nude drawings spanning five decades, including drawings made blind in the dark.
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Remembering a Landscape: Yin and Yang in Ink Painting
A simple landscape composition, reworked across 30 years, exploring memory, imagination and the balance of yin and yang.
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Window with Shutters: An Ink Painting on Isolation
A semi-abstract ink painting exploring isolation during the pandemic, part of an ongoing Covid-19 series.
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Out of the Blues into the Blue: A Painting on Isolation
The composition clears the way to the blue of the sea and the sky. Perhaps the picture is a little too melodramatic, but a good mood is powerful in its own way. It relies on the tension of opposites—the natural balance of yin and yang—contrasting heavy, dramatic elements with clear, uplifting space to give the…
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Landscapes by the Water and in the Mountains
Two landscape studies inspired by music, volcanic eruptions in the news, and mountain monasteries.
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A Painting Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s “Reminiscence of Marie A.
A painting inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s poem “Reminiscence of Marie A.”
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Triptych: Theme and Variations
An abstract triptych inspired by classical music, blending calligraphy principles with painterly expression.
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State of the Art: A Self-Portrait Series
A personal self-portrait series from 1977 to 2021, tracing the evolution of style, memory, and even a damaged early canvas.
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Why I Practice Painted Calligraphy
Why decades of Chinese calligraphy practice led to a personal style: painted calligraphy.
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Power, Elegance and Savageness: New Abstract Works
New abstract paintings exploring elegance and savageness, including an upcoming dragon series.
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Gestural Painting: A Step Further
New gestural abstraction paintings exploring psychology, blending Chinese calligraphy with Western concepts.
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Gestural Painting, Subconsciousness and Archetypes
A look at moving from figurative portraits to gestural abstraction, exploring Jungian archetypes, the subconscious, and Chinese art theory.
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Almost Thrown Away: A “Scared Girl” — A Painting Saved from the Trash
A 1988 portrait almost thrown away for not fitting a series — rediscovered years later and worth keeping after all.
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A Painting Inspired by Brecht’s “If Sharks Were People”
A painting inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s satirical story “If Sharks Were People,” transforming sharks into blossoms of predatory innocence.
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Burning Down the Snow: A Surrealist Painting
A surrealist painting born from Schubert’s “Winterreise” and Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House” — blending photorealism and abstraction.
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White, Black, Red: The Power of Empty Space
An abstract painting exploring the power of empty space in East Asian art.
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Triptych “Mountain”: The Finished Series
A finished triptych exploring mountains and caves, inspired by the archaic Chinese pictograph for “mountain.”
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Paint Away Pain: Creating an Abstract Painting
In this personal studio reflection, the author describes how painting helped transform a difficult day into an abstract work. Influenced by music and spontaneous brushwork, the painting explores emotion, color, structure and the expressive possibilities of gestural abstraction.
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A Couple of New Works: Contemporary Ink Paintings
A studio reflection on several new contemporary ink paintings, exploring abstraction, color and expressive composition through principles drawn from Chinese painting and calligraphy.
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A Couple of New Works in Gestural Abstraction
A selection of new works from Friedrich Zettl’s gestural painting series, created with ink on paper and informed by principles of traditional Chinese calligraphy.
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Recent Work: Day 7/7 — Autumn in My Garden
An abstract garden in red, magenta and pale green closes this seven-day presentation, with an open question about whether to continue in this direction.
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Recent Work: Day 5/7 — A Homage to Max Ernst
Almost fifty years after discovering the Surrealists, I return to Max Ernst in a homage shaped by remembered images, dark brush forms and uncertain creatures.
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Recent Work: Day 4/7 — Gestural Calligraphy
Three works exploring the space between writing and painting: gestural forms suggest characters, folded ribbons and objects that change as we look.
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A Few Rays of Sunshine for Your Weekend
A woodland picture painted after a walk through the Vienna Woods and a rediscovery of Der Blaue Reiter, with blue-green trunks and warm orange light.