Lisa Cleeves
Cologne, Tyskland
However, for me, art and creativity not only means creating beautiful drawings and paintings, but also expressing my inner world.
This led to some barbies, barbed wire and even an old chair serving as my first canvases.
My goal was less to come to terms with a traumatic childhood, as my art teacher assumed, and more to shock through my art - perhaps the rebellious spirit in me.
Why do I paint what I paint today?
Basically, I paint what brings me joy.
Often it is plants or animals, especially birds and fish, that fascinate me.
However, my pictures are never photorealistic, but always have a certain abstraction.
I paint things the way I want to see them - rarely in black and white.
Birds are my greatest passion and therefore frequent motifs in my works.
I always symbolically carry four of them with me and dream of one day paragliding through the air with vultures or cranes.
Until this moment I paint the world as it corresponds to my ideas.