Abstract landscape paintings move between the experience of nature and free painting. Landscape does not appear here as an exact depiction of a place, but as an open pictorial space of color, structure and atmosphere. Lines, color fields and layers evoke horizons, expanses or natural movements without committing to a specific landscape.

Many of my landscape paintings emerge from experimental painting processes. Layers of color, overpainting, and fragments of earlier works form the basis for new compositions. From these processes, pictorial spaces develop that are reminiscent of landscapes – of vastness, of geological structures, or of the movement of weather and light.

Such abstract landscape spaces emerge especially in series like Field of Mars or Organic Grounds. Here, leftover paint, structures, and spontaneous painterly decisions combine to form multi-layered compositions. The paintings leave room for personal associations and open up different perspectives on nature and space.

Abstract landscape paintings can create a calm, expansive atmosphere while at the same time developing a strong visual presence in a space. They combine the openness of abstract painting with the feeling of landscape and spatial depth.

Landscape as abstract pictorial space

In abstract landscape painting, nature is not depicted directly, but suggested through color, structure, and composition. Horizons, movements, and depths arise from painterly processes and give rise to images that hover between the memory of landscape and free abstraction.

Series Field of Mars and Organic Grounds

Many of the works shown here belong to series in which the idea of landscape unfolds in different ways. In the series Field of Mars, expansive fields of color and horizontal structures emerge, while Organic Grounds is more strongly characterized by layering, material traces, and organic color fields.

The following works present a selection of abstract landscape paintings from various series of my work.