Sonntag, 29. Juni 2025
Amrum – Übersicht aller Bilder
Samstag, 28. Juni 2025
Amrum – Pleinairmalerei Workshop 2025
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Freitag, 27. Juni 2025
Amrum – Strandkörbe
And this is my farewell painting, which I painted on the evening of the last day of the course during a very pleasant get-together at the Fischbäcker restaurant on the beach in Norddorf.
I don't think the result is particularly successful, but it is a wonderful reminder of that evening – with a really great feeling of the work being done for the week :-)
Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2025
Amrum – Gewitterhimmel
I had to hurry so much with the first painting because of the incoming tide that I still had time to paint a second picture at the Nordspitze, this time with a view towards Norddorf:
There I saw the weather that had been forecast coming towards me... it turned pitch black and I had to flee the beach and cycle back in the pouring rain.
Amrum – Nordspitze
Since we rescheduled today's course for the afternoon due to the weather forecast, I used the morning to paint at the nordspitze.
I stood on an ebbing island that was shrinking very, very quickly – and then I had to wade back through water that was already knee-deep. It's unbelievable how quickly the water always comes in...!
Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2025
Amrum – Kniepsand
This is my painting demo from today's course, which we spent in Kniepsand: The endless expanse there never ceases to impress me... I tried to capture that in my composition.
Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025
Amrum – Blick nach Sylt
Sunshine at last! But as the wind was still very strong, I sought shelter behind a beach chair. It didn't help much: there was sand everywhere, on the palette, on the painting, in my eyes and hair... everything was crunching.
The painting shows the view from the beach at Norddorf across to Sylt.
Sonntag, 22. Juni 2025
Amrum – Düne
After cycling around the island all day looking for good places to paint, I painted in the dunes in the evening. The wind was so strong that I didn't have much choice of subject matter and could only paint what I could see from my hollow (I would have preferred to paint at the front of the beach).
Amrum – Leuchtturm
Eine neue Artistravel Malreise brachte mich auf die Insel Amrum:
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| Und das ist meine Ölbild Nr. 1019 |
A new Artistravel painting trip took me to the island of Amrum:
I have a very personal connection to this island: I got married at this lighthouse.So it was obvious that I would paint it first.
It was the perfect start to my week of painting there.
I have painted this motif several times before:here are the previous results (you can see a certain amount of progress, can't you?)
Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2023
Bretagne – Plage des Amiets
Nachdem ich gerade erst zurück von der Ostsee bin, bin ich nun gaaaanz nach Westen ans Meer - La Bretagne!
Wegen des sehr starken Windes war ich gezwungen mich zwischen die Felsen hocken - und muss mich wohl erst noch an die schnell wechselnden Gezeiten hier gewöhnen, den Zack! war das wunderschön türkise Meer mit den tollen Wellen weg, bevor ich das Beweisfotos machen konnte.
Freitag, 8. Juli 2022
Amrum - Übersicht
Hier ist noch mal die Übersicht aller Ölbilder die ich in der letzten Woche auf Amrum gemalt habe.
Die Insel ist auf jeden Fall was ganz besonderes, ich hätte dort sehr gerne noch mehr gemalt - vor allem die Dünen habe ich noch lange nicht "weggemalt"...
Gewohnt haben wir übrigens im niedlichen Höske in Norddorf... ich kann dieses Ferienhäuschen absolut empfehlen, es ist wunderschön und hat ganz besonderes herzliche Gastgeber!
Here is an overview of all the oil paintings I did on Amrum last week.
The island is definitely something very special, I would have loved to paint more there - especially the dunes are still a long way from being "painted away"...
Freitag, 1. Juli 2022
Amrum - Wellen und Wolken

The last day on Amrum greeted us with rain and wind - and finally some waves!
When I decided to paint them, it stopped raining and on the horizon there was already nice weather again... but then the waves were almost completely gone too.
It's crazy how many different colours you discover over time when you spend more time looking at the seemingly grey North Sea.... Unfortunately, they don't really come out in the photo.
Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022
Amrum - Düne

Nowhere have I saw more beautiful and more dunes than on Amrum, and the best thing is that you can walk on them in the first row, so you can choose the best angle to paint from.
I love painting dunes!
Amrum - Strandleben

The Germans tend to build castles around their beach chairs... these people built a palace out of it, including a fence made of old nets and furniture made of pallets, even with an extra roof.
And of course, very important: flags.
I don't know where this strange need to separate oneself comes from, but as a motif it gave something.
Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2022
Amrum - Möwen

Rarely have I seen so many seagulls on the beach as on Amrum, especially here at the northern tip right next to the bird sanctuary.
What I couldn't paint are the many different sounds the seagulls make... sometimes they sound like babies or dogs.... I would be interested to know what they are calling to each other (apart from "mine, mine, mine!").
When I finished the painting, not only was the water gone, but almost all the seagulls were too.
Dienstag, 28. Juni 2022
Amrum - Strandkorb
I think it is only on Amrum that you can have your beach chair placed directly in the dunes.
Since the island with the "Kniepsand" has soooo much beach with "fresh" dunes in front of the actual dunes, which serve to protect the coast, this first row of dunes can also be "walked on" without a guilty conscience.
Montag, 27. Juni 2022
Amrum - Leuchtturm

Hier wollte ich eigentlich nur den Leuchtturm in den Dünen malen – dann war der Himmel aber so dramatisch, dass ich den Ausschnitt ganz anders wählte... Ich bin sehr froh über diese Entscheidung, da ich so viel besser die Weite dort einfangen konnte.
Es war auch ein Zeichen, dass es, als ich die Staffelei aufbaute gerade aufhörte zu regnen – und genau beim Einpacken werde anfing... Zum Glück hatte ich mich beeilt und so nur kapp 1 Stunde gebraucht.
Den Leuchtturm habe ich auf auf den Tag genau vor 10 Jahren schon einmal gemalt, damals nicht vom Strand aus, sondern direkt davor in den Dünen sitzend....
Damals war es mein erst 7. Ölbild, mittlerweile bin ich bei Nr. 1019
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| Ölbild Nr. 7 gemalt im Juni 2012 |
Sonntag, 26. Juni 2022
Amrum - Nordspitze, Blick nach Sylt

And bang! I'm at the sea again :-) This time it's the North Sea...
The painting shows the beach on the northern tip of Amrum, in the distance on the horizon you can see Sylt.
I was totally impressed by the clouds on the island: as they moved in such different layers, they had very different colours, which I found super interesting to paint.
The first paintings at a new location are always exciting, too, because I always have to get used to the new colours first: both the sand and the sea have their very own colours on Amrum. The sea is much less blue, even in good weather, and the sand is a lot greyer and cooler in tone than the beach on the Atlantic.











































