CLAUDIA GRUTKE
Art is my second “career” and began a few years ago when I moved to Raglan. I work from home in the transformed garage which is now my studio.
I love experimenting and am mostly self-taught in my art. In the beginning, I created hundreds of semi-abstract landscapes, most of which have found permanent homes literally world-wide.
In 2020 I attended the Creative Visionary program. This online is comprehensive and is designed to help you find your authentic path in your art.
As a result, my work has become more introspective and contemplative and maybe even more abstract. My inquiry is a reflection of the connection between human and nature portrayed in loose shapes, lines and layers.
The studio is a happy construction site.
Working on several pieces at a time, I feel like an explorer who loves building layers by painting and drawing, scraping back and adding more. In the process I discover marks, new tools and new fragments of myself.
Painting feels like a passage through time and existence.
A minimalist mindset is represented in the use of a limited colour palette. In an attempt to find the delicate balance of what works and what doesn’t, layers may get smudged and obliterated or covered with drippy paint.
Eventually artworks evolve in simple compositions.
I participated in numerous exhibitions in New Zealand and beyond.
