Patricia Engeler Born on January 26, 1968 in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil I have been living in Switzerland since 1989.

Painting Courses Creative Painting for seniors Perlavita AG Friedau, Frauenfeld

I have worked with many different methods and materials, and in a range of styles, focusing on diverse subjects and themes. Yet I have found that my favorite subject is water, and my chosen techniques are oil and mixed media. I love the ever-changing nature of water, and its beauty and simplicity.

In general I work without preliminary sketches, simply drawing on my years of studying water and how it works, and the things I have seen, as well as some products of my own imagination. The strong basis in observation is important to my work – abstraction cannot exist without naturalism. For me, art is a process of artistic and personal development, of which the paintings are the product.
 
My motto when painting is that ‘less is more.’ I avoid excess, concentrating instead on the essential and on the things we cannot see – the atmosphere, the feeling – though never reaching total minimalism. I paint subjects that make me happy, in the way that water fills me with joy and fascination. I try to convey my positivity, my peace and my inner joy, so that my colorful message can give the viewer the feeling that the simplest things are full of true beauty.

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