Martina Voigt-Schmid, born in Frankfurt a. M., loves
the lively energies of colours and playing with them in the
compositions of her paintings. Abstract shapes, things from nature and
the empty space between thinngs, Leaves, seeds, stars, cells – everyday
things, as well as patterns like stripes, circles and dots keep
inspiring her work. An intrinsic mix of observed details, bold shapes
and delicate colours are layered,, partly veiling each other, leaving
room for each person to see and perceive different things. Her painting
Prof., realist artist Bernd Schwering once said, her paintings are like
flying carpets. taking you to a world in between worlds.
After childhood art lessons with her grandmother, the painter Alice
Schlindwein von Carstenn, Martina studied visual arts with a major in
painting at Johannes-Gutenberg University. During a guest semester in
USA, she also worked with Edith Wallace, a painter and psychoanalyst,
whos unique tissue-paper collage-technique inspired her work ever since.
Martina has shown her work in various exibitions in Germany and
Switzerland.
Inspired by her family life with two sons in the vineyards at the
Rhine and the printing business from her husband, she has worked as a
designer for wine.marketing and later as creative director and editor to
a german parenting magazine for many years. In recent yearts, she
turned her main focus again on painting.
In large size mixed-media paintings as well as smaller work on canvas
and paper she explores her love of colour and her faszination for he
living, breathing world around her – the world wide web of nature.
A number of shapes and forms derived mainly from sketching in her
garden as well as from her personal painting process form a personal
archive she draws on fort he composition of her paintings and designs.
