Title: Australian Fire Landscape, 2017
Material: Mixed media, acrylic on canvas
Size: 50 x 60 cm

With this work “Australian Fire Landscape”, the artist wants to describe more than just a landscape. It expresses her impressions from a trip to Australia in 2017. The artist has created an image symbolizing the heat, dryness, and red earth as experienced in the Australian Outback. The immediacy of the shimmering heat, the fine, sandy red soil, represents the powerful, almost eruptive energy of the Outback. The dominant red tones also recall the glowing horizon of Australia during the bushfires. Structures made of thickly applied flour mixed with paint create relief-like elements that move across the canvas like flickering flames. Golden and white areas break through the density of the red and suggest sparks, ashes, or glowing fields of embers. Dark areas in the lower part convey a ground left burned and parched. Despite the force and drama of the composition, the artist wanted to let hope resonate. Because light breaks through the scenery — it spreads and stands for renewal and for the resilience of nature, which, despite heat and drought, always finds a way.