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Artist Exhibitions:
2011: Solo Show, the Islington
Art Factory, London
2010: June & November: Open
Studios, The Chocolate Factory
N16,
London
2010: June: Summer Salon, The
Islington Arts Factory, London
2010: March: The Spring
Affordable Art Fair
London,with Pascal
Allouard
Contemporary Art Brussels,
2009: October & November: The
Art of Peace General Exhibit &
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Artist Galleries:
Broomhill Art
Lucy Fenton Gallery
Picassio Mio
Blink Red...
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Artist Reviews:
"Sussex Society" - Sussex Life
February 2005
"Auf den Wegen der bildenden
Kunst" - Elbe-jeetzel-Zeitung
26.2.2004
"Museum nun Atelier" - Kiebitz
25.2.2004
"Das Alte Zollhaus wird zum
Atelier" - Wendland Wegweiser
February 2004...
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Collections:
Corporate collection: Innovas
Gmbh, Hamburg
Private collections in Europe
and USA...
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Commissions:
City Museum Das Alte Zollhaus,
Hitzacker
Private comissions in
Europe...
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Artist Statement for Wiebke Dreyer
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Without light there can be no colour. Everything is defined by colour and into her paintings Wiebke Dreyer pours her passion for colour and light.
Growing up in northern Europe as a very visual person, Wiebke was always powerfully aware of light and its absence during the short dark winter days.
Moving to Barcelona in 1994 she was first overwhelmed by the brightness of Mediterranean light and was surprised that her fellow students seemed indifferent to the intensity of light and colour. In that bright light colours have to be intense, strong to be noticed; so unlike the pastel shades used by the artists of northern climes. It was this difference that inspired Wiebke to start exploring colour through painting and she took initial inspiration from Mediterranean landscapes and architecture, moving slowly towards abstraction.
Influencing her some kind or another during this way were The Blue Rider artists, Paul Klee, Frida Kahlo, Joan Miró, Gerhard Richter and Miquel Barceló, and writers portraying their colourful Latin American culture, such as Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Marquéz
During her MA Wiebke started her first series “Colour and Words” , exploring how language and colour relate to each other and how our general perception of colour changes according to to our language. She continued and developed these ideas further in the more expressive series “Colour Circle”, in which she attemps to explore the nature of colour itself.
In 2002, when travelling in Morocco and the Saharan desert, her attention became drawn to aspects of texture and environment. Sand and pigments are at the heart of her „Desert paintings“.
The folowing “earth series” was inspired by walks in her local park Hampstead Heath, whose paths resemble the sandy surfaces of the desert. These new aspects of texture, nature and environment look back to the original landscapes, defining landscapes and environment in a new way.
A recent passion for opera, especially Wagner and the strong artificial colours of the theatrical environment lead to the vibrant “Stage Designs”. This series was initiated by the continous series “Music Paintings”, the result of being the artist in residence at the Güttler Music Festival in Hitzacker in 2004. Both series contrast the previous “earth series”, artificial environment versus nature.
Between inspiration and final paintings lie long walks in nature, where Wiebke relaxes and clears her mind to let impressions of paintings come to her, to be later painted in her studio.
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