For this section I'd like to highlight one of you each month. Please email me if you would like to be featured here. My newsletter reaches almost 800 Encaustic enthusiasts, who are all eager to learn more about you!

This month's featured artist is Andreas Herrmann.

Andreas is an artist and gallery owner in Berlin, Germany. I contacted him after I read an interview with him in Cauteria, a German magazine about Encaustic. The accompanying pictures intrigued me and I invited him to be guest artist here in my newsletter, which he happily accepted.

A bit more about him:
Andreas Herrmann was born February 2, 1971 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Since 2000 he lives and works in Berlin. After studying classical dance and choreography, and after performing on several stages throughout Germany, Herrmann focused on the arts. Since 2002 he works exclusively in encaustic painting. In 2008 he opened the producer's gallery mianki. Gallery.

Current exhibition:
Up to now, Andreas Herrmann's attention was on complexity and transparency in nature. In his current exhibition he extends this enquiry to the realm of politics and society. His new works of art gathered in BLUE - the true color of hope call into question the mechanisms of political power. Center stage we find once more the concept of transparency - a concept with a positive connotation that seems to facilitate finding facts and truths. In light of Herrmann's latest works we might come to find this positive connotation slightly too simplistic.

The photo shows how Andreas brings his art into the room. He takes the image off the wall, by using the motive for cushions, lamp shades or curtains, and invokes a dialog between everyday items and his art.


Here you can view a video (in German) about the Lange Kunst Nacht in Leonberg, in which Andreas participated.
Andreas would be delighted to get feedback from you on his work and vision.