Sonntag, 28. September 2025
Schrebergarten Tor
Mittwoch, 24. September 2025
Uk Paintings Overwiew
This is an overview of all the paintings I did during my week in England.
It was a very exciting and wonderful time: I fell in love with the friendliness of the British people and the beautiful landscape, and ventured into completely new motifs... unforgettable.
I will definitely be back!
Except for two (Thames and Radcliffe Camera), all paintings are still available (almost: the pub has already been reserved).
Montag, 22. September 2025
Oxfordshire – Gate

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| mixed media Skizze |
I had already spotted this beautiful gate during our first walk there – and I couldn't leave without painting it.
I had already sketched it a few days earlier with my girlfriend (mixed media), which somehow inspired me to paint a little more freely than usual, to focus even more on the essentials...
It's not such a bad idea to try something different :-)
Oxfordshire – Gewächshaus
Dieses wunderschöne Gewächshaus steht im Garten meiner Freundin: für mich auch ein absolut britisches Motiv.
This beautiful greenhouse stands in my friend's garden: for me, it's also a quintessentially British motif.
The sun moved surprisingly slowly, allowing me to relax and capture the beautiful play of light and shadow on this late summer morning.
Oh, how I would love to have such a sunny garden with a greenhouse... that would be really something!
Sonntag, 21. September 2025
Oxford – Iffley Lock

I'm back on the Thames again, but this time in Oxford – at Iffley Lock.
I found the reflection most interesting; I actually painted everything else just as a background.
Oxforshire – Windmillhill
Once again, I had to paint the view from my friends' house: the light was simply too beautiful!
I think I could paint this motif 100 times and no two paintings would be the same. Even in the short time I was there, I saw so many different light and colour moods: incredible!
Samstag, 20. September 2025
Oxford – Radcliff Camera
In the afternoon, we were all together in Oxford, and while the others were sightseeing, I painted the Radcliffe Camera, about which I now know everything: while I was painting there, I heard about 100 guided tours – in all languages.
In short: it is one of the university libraries there, and Camera is derived from the word chamber and has nothing to do with a camera.
I wouldn't have picked this subject myself, as it's pretty complex, but my friends had chosen it as their favourite subject – and now I'm glad I did it. Learned a lot again.
Oxforshire – Windmillhill

We have now left London and are visiting friends near Oxford.
We arrived late in the evening – and this was the view of the area that I saw for the first time when I woke up in the morning light: I just had to paint it straight away!
Donnerstag, 18. September 2025
London – Themse
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The next day, I cycled to the Thames to paint:
It was probably a silly idea to paint Westminster Palace as a background just like a quick sketch...But I liked this little boathouse with its pier and gangway so much...!
I was very surprised that in London, so far from the sea, the tides are so noticeable:
In the two hours that I was painting, the water sank rapidly: at the beginning, the gangway was still horizontal, and the house clearly overlapped the opposite bank – at first I thought I just hadn't looked properly :-)
The colour of the Thames actually corresponds exactly to the greenish grey tone of my palette smudges: these are paint leftovers that I have collected during my travels over the last few weeks/months. So the colour of the Thames is the colour of the beach, the colour of the forest; the colour of the Allgäu, the colour of Brittany, the colour of Amrum and more...
Incidentally, this painting was bought off my easel (well, almost: I took it home with me to varnish it) – you can't just pack up a wet oil painting and send it off. It's a shame, now I have to go to the trouble of sending it to the USA.
Mittwoch, 17. September 2025
London – Salisbury Pub
To pass the time until the opening of the Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition (see previous post), I took my painting stuff and went out to find a subject nearby that I could only paint in London: I found it in Covent Garden.
This is the Salisbury Pub, which opened in 1899.
I may have bitten off more than I could chew with this subject, as I painted for ages (almost three hours), but I finally finished it.
It was definitely fun: I was way out of my comfort zone, but I painted a subject that is (for me) typical of London.
Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition 2025
The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) selected one of my plein air paintings, which I painted in Brittany, for its annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London! I have been totally overwhelmed since I was informed (at the beginning of August) and finally I was able to travel to London to visit the exhibition and meet some of my English Instagram friends in person.
It is such a huge honour that my painting was chosen to hang there among all the other magnificent paintings by even more magnificent artists: it's incredible how high the quality of the paintings on show is.
To get an idea for yourselves, you can see all the paintings on the Mall Galeries website (mine is painting no. 280).
Since I was there anyway, I of course painted there too:
I'll show the paintings here in the following posts.
Here is the blog post about the painting.
Donnerstag, 11. September 2025
Birken
These birch trees are also located in the small Eppental valley – I only painted them because they stand in the one corner of the valley that still gets sun in the afternoon.
But they made for an amazingly beautiful motif: the bark, with its neutral white colour, reflects all the colours of the surroundings. It was fun to look at them closely...
Dienstag, 9. September 2025
Eppental im Pfälzer Wald im Sommer
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| Frühling |
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| Herbst |
Today I stayed in the forest to paint: this is one of my favourite motifs here in the Palatinate Forest: the meadow in the little Eppental valley.
It's absolutely beautiful how the colours and light change with the seasons: now all I need is a winter picture in the snow and the series will be complete.
Sonntag, 7. September 2025
Pfälzer Weinberge Blick

That was the second painting of the day: the path through the Palatinate vineyards in the other direction. I painted it in just 35 minutes. I think it was just the perfect day for painting: the whole process was really easy and relaxed (and the weather was so beautiful too)!
Weg in den Pfälzer Weinbergen
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On this beautiful late summer day, I was drawn out of the forest and into the sunny vineyards near Bad Dürkheim: Sometimes a painting almost paints itself—this was one of those times.
I had a plan from the start and painted this piece with complete focus in 50 minutes without any unnecessary detours. It was as if the oil paint was flowing from my brush...
Such painting bliss: afterwards, I simply turned around 180 degrees and painted a second one....




































