I teach oil painting at different levels and in the approach of various subject matter in collaboration with art supply companies in Austria. Besides intro­ducing oil painting techniques, my focus is always to pro­vide a foundatio­nal under­standing of the visual tools in painting, such as shapes, value, edges and the attri­butes of color.

I believe that mastering represen­ta­tional drawing and painting, especially from life, lays the foundation for creative free­dom and the ability to make artistic decisions intentio­nally. Painting is a language with its own vocabulary and grammar, that we need to learn to speak before making it our own, conveying stories and writing poetry. In my work I strive to marry figurative realism with the spontaneity and depth of abstraction and texture, and likewise encourage to explore this balance and tension in my approach as an instructor.

Workshops in Austria will usually be in German, but can be bilingual on demand.