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My Themes: A space for remembrance, empowerment, and self-discovery. <\/p>\n
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My work is about connectedness \u2013 with myself, with the people who accompany me, and with nature, of which I am a part. I am interested in inner movements, in transitions, in what arises between two states \u2013 closeness and distance, calm and friction, clarity and chaos. My paintings locate precisely these in-between spaces. They make visible where something begins, where something ends, where something remains. <\/p>\n
Connectedness and self-discovery belong together for me. Encounters \u2013 with people, memories, ideas \u2013 leave traces. They lay fine lines through our inner being, and where they intersect or condense, our individual path is formed. <\/p>\n
With my work, I don’t want to define, but to open up: [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male07-768×1024.jpg” alt=”Abstract painting about self-discovery and life's challenges that make us strong” title_text=”How-I-paint07″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male08.jpg” alt=”Soulsisters series about sisters, detachment, and connectedness” title_text=”How-I-paint08″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_height_phone=”307px” max_height_last_edited=”off|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male10.jpg” title_text=”How-I-paint10″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male11-768×1024.jpg” title_text=”How-I-paint11″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Verena-grosses-Bild-Website.m4v” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”13px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Beginning of work for the exhibition “Investigating Nature” at Kunstraum Neureut e.V. 2021<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||7px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font_size=”30px” header_3_line_height=”1.1em” custom_margin=”||18px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n I feel more comfortable in nature than in the city \u2013 a cluster of trees and the countless life forms of a forest are more familiar to me than a gathering of people and their systems. Nature doesn’t overwhelm me \u2013 it sustains me. I feel myself to be a part of it. This deep belonging flows into my work: not directly depicted, but atmospherically palpable. <\/p>\n There is a balance between becoming and passing away. This interplay touches me \u2013 and it shows in my paintings. Not as a depiction, but as a feeling. As a reminder that we are always part of something greater. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_4,1_4,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male09.jpg” alt=”Abstract painting about self-discovery and life's challenges that make us strong” title_text=”How-I-paint09″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male02.jpg” alt=”Soulsisters series about sisters, detachment, and connectedness” title_text=”How-I-paint02″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_height_phone=”307px” max_height_last_edited=”off|tablet” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male06.jpg” title_text=”How-I-paint06″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/verena-mayer-kolbinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Wie-ich-male12-768×1024.jpg” title_text=”How-I-paint12″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font_size=”30px” header_3_line_height=”1.1em” custom_margin=”||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n I am interested in the in-between. The duality. Every sensation carries multiple sides within it \u2013 light and shadow, lightness and heaviness, delicacy and force. I paint for people who feel life in all its facets<\/strong>. For those who are not looking for quick answers, but for images that reflect and deepen their feelings. <\/p>\n That’s why for me, a landscape is never just a landscape, a plant never just a plant, and a portrait never just a portrait. They are memory, hope, movement \u2013 sometimes even comfort. <\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t paint what I see, but what I feel when I close my eyes: colors I sense, and forms that describe rather than reproduce. This creates an image that tells more than the visible form. More than a photo could show. Because what touches me often lies beneath the surface \u2013 and that’s exactly where I begin to paint. <\/p>\n The photos below show everything I associate with this small boathouse (Image 1): blueberry picking with a friend, the windy and rugged nature of Cape Breton (Canada, my second home), the chance encounter with a young man who had come to this island tracing his ancestors’ footsteps, the conversation, the spontaneous short concert, and the security and presence I felt in those moments. 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