In her very first UK debut, German abstract artist Petra Schott will be exhibiting an exclusive collection in the city of Newcastle at Hancock Gallery.
Born in Germany in 1953, Schott went on to study Fine Art at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel, but didn’t finish. Noting the appreciation to deepen her knowledge freely, away from the formal education of art, Schott honed her artistic craft over 30 years, developing her painterly expression, taking part in exhibitions while working as a lawyer and judge before making the full switch to art in 2014.
“Creating art is my way of expressing the world I live in and making sense of it. It is my way of finding its beauty, its poetry, its magic and its rhythm.”
Highly influenced by some of The Greatest Abstract Artists, including Cy Twombly, Leiko Ikemura, Joan Mitchell, Marlène Dumas, Elisabeth Cummings, and Henri Matisse, Petra Schott’s work focuses on states of mind, longings and memories. Revolving around visions, ideas and emotions in the past and present in a figurative-abstract way, her abstract expressionism searches for freedom, lightness, liveliness and intensity.
“Good art makes me hold my breath by the excitement I feel, it touches me like a cold morning shower or with the soft subtlety of a poem, it wakes me up like a shot of ginger juice. It is good when it makes me think and feel, when I see something new and bold happen in this work, something fresh and unseen, something holding deep emotion and truth.”
Absorbing colours and shapes, events and conversations, she allows them to trigger inner dialogue and images, which she transcribes onto the canvas through shapes, marks, and lines found in her everyday life.
This abstract language of painting she’s created is one of the reasons why her artwork brings a feeling and experience like no other. In her first UK debut, Schott’s exhibition, Illuminating Reality, showcases a collection that evokes emotions of nostalgia, beauty and optimism – and is exclusive to Hancock Gallery.
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