Petra Schott
Frankfurt /M, Hesse
Born in Germany, Petra Schott is an abstract painter, known nationally and internationally, whose art revolves around states of mind, longings, and memories.
MessageBorn in 1953 in Hannover, Germany, Petra Schott is an abstract painter whose art revolves around states of mind, longings, and memories.
After completing her studies in Fine Art at the Art Academy in Kassel in 1982 and continuing to paint, Schott also had a long career as a lawyer and judge in Germany before fully dedicating herself to making art in 2014. Since then she has attracted the attention of national and international galleries, art critics, and collectors.
Highly influenced by the works of Cy Twombly, Leiko Ikemura, Joan Mitchell, Marlène Dumas, Elisabeth Cummings, and Henri Matisse, the artist’s work is emotionally charged and in direct dialogue with the viewer who is invited into an open space for expression.
In her works, Schott delicately creates colourful representations of nostalgia, freedom and human relationships. Whilst delving into the exploration of the mediums of her choice, which can range from pastel chalks, pencils, and acrylics to egg tempera and oils, she also explores nature and an intangible realm in which human figures with abstract facial expressions are loosely outlined.
The artist’s creative process begins first and foremost with exploring materiality. A strong inner urge drives the artist to a particular canvas, paper or painting medium, or even a particular colour, and she lets her intuitiveness guide her whilst exploring each medium’s expressive potential.
In Schott's work, colour plays a crucial role in evoking a certain moment, feeling or connection as she weaves personal and collective memories into shapes, marks and lines found in her everyday life, creating an abstract language of painting that oscillates between lyrical abstraction and figurative references.
Petra Schott regularly exhibits nationally and internationally, with solo and group shows in Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland, and the Czech Republic.
The artist currently lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.
Statement
The intuitive, abstract use of color, line and shape is my way of dealing with the daily processing of my life.
I absorb colours and shapes, events and conversations, let them trigger an inner dialogue, inner images, and then transform this conglomerate on the canvas into my very personal, visual reality. Because of the expressiveness and naturalness of the color, I prefer to use classic media such as egg tempera and oil paints.
This sensual - emotional act on the canvas creates something new that is not a message, but wants to illuminate the little secrets of life, without which this world cannot exist. My art opens the space beyond the words and thus creates a new freedom of immediate knowledge and feeling. It absorbs human longings, experiences and visions and gives them a new urgency and substance.
The art scholar Amalia Gonser writes: In Petra Schott's work, “basic themes of human existence resonate, such as: love, sex, vulnerability, memory and transience, and again and again the fleetingness of the moment experienced. She draws additional inspiration from experiences of nature, from viewing the works of her affine artists and from literary sources that are vital to her. In this way she creates fascinating, at times disturbing and deeply touching images of people. „
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