Narrative Art

I love weaving narrative into my paintings, creating works imbued with a reflective, almost meditative stillness. Each piece offers a pause, a space that invites quiet contemplation.

 

Travel has played a central role in shaping my artistic vision. Journeys through several countries in the Far East have provided a deep well of inspiration, informing many of my personal projects and broadening the way I see the world.

 

My work also draws on mythology, history, spirituality, and the cosmos. These themes allow me to explore timeless questions of existence and transformation, while connecting personal experience with universal stories. Through this, my narrative paintings become not only images, but invitations to reflect on the mysteries that surround us.

"The Morning Offering"

  • Oils on canvas mounted on panel
  • 75x100 cm
  • Made in 2025
  • €5500,- (including frame)

 

The idea for this painting began during a trek along the Annapurna trail in Nepal. I had stepped into a quiet mountain temple when I saw a monk standing in the open doorway. Morning light streamed in behind him, casting a soft glow across the dark interior, illuminating ancient artifacts and prayer flags. The moment felt suspended peaceful, expectant, as if he were waiting to receive someone, even though the trail outside was nearly empty.

Along routes like the Annapurna trail, many travelers come across small monasteries where monks might invite them to pause, light a butter lamp, or simply sit in silence. These places offer not only shelter, but moments of reflection and connection. The gesture of opening the monastery door after morning prayer is not just a practical routine, but a quiet act of invitation, grounded in centuries of Buddhist tradition.

This painting captures that threshold moment.

A Tibetan monk opens the door of his mountain monastery at dawn, welcoming the first light of day and any visitor who may arrive with peace in their heart. Sunlight filters into the dimly lit temple, catching on statues and relics that speak of devotion and time. At his feet, his ginger cat is already alert and ready to explore the rural world beyond. Together, they stand at the edge of stillness and movement, solitude and encounter, shadow and light.

"Musica Universalis"

  • Oils on canvas mounted on panel
  • 60x80 cm
  • Made in 2023-24
  • €4500,- (including frame)

 

This painting is a modern take on Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and art. I imagined her orchestrating the cosmos with the ethereal strains of her violin. Her music, the musica universalis or “music of the spheres,” is not heard with the ear but with the soul. It is an ancient idea that describes the harmony of celestial movements as a hidden kind of music guiding life itself.

 

In my vision, her song is carried across the universe by a cosmic turtle drifting patiently through the stars. For me, the turtle represents the soul moving slowly yet steadily through time and space, unhurried but purposeful. Across world traditions, the world-bearing turtle has symbolized stability, endurance, and creation.

 

On its back I placed the Duomo of Florence, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. Florence was more than just a place of study for me. It profoundly shaped my life. It was there I trained intensively, met my partner, and began the path that led to founding my own academy. The Duomo symbolizes how those experiences still carry me forward, just as the turtle continues its journey.

 

This painting merges Minerva’s music, the turtle’s patient path, and Florence’s lasting presence into a single vision, a cosmic symphony I imagined over a decade ago and only now brought to life.

"Memory and Thought"

  • Oilpaint on canvas
  • 60x80 cm
  • Made in 2024-25
  • €3750,- (including frame)

 

    In Norse mythology, Odin is the one-eyed god of wisdom, poetry, and prophecy, a figure who sacrificed much in his search for truth. In this painting he sits in stillness, flanked by his ravens Huginn and Muninn—Memory and Thought. Each day they fly across the world and return to whisper their knowledge into his ear, making Odin not only a ruler but also a keeper of stories, secrets, and the fate of mankind.

     

    The skull beneath his hand recalls Ymir, the primordial giant whose body was sacrificed to shape the cosmos. Though Ymir was slain, his essence lives on in the ravens, binding Odin’s wisdom to the memory of creation itself. The sword, resting upright in his grasp, anchors him between past and present: a symbol of power tempered by reflection.

     

    Here Odin embodies both solitude and vigilance, carrying the weight of memory while sending thought into the world. The painting reflects on cycles of death and rebirth, the burden of knowledge, and the eternal dialogue between what must be remembered and what must be imagined.