ABOUT KARINA WOLDT
This tells you just a little bit about my background and why I paint.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Karina Woldt is an artist with over 40 years' experience in fine art. She started painting from an early age and studied fine art at the University of Regensburg Germany until graduating in 1999.
She now works from her studio in the rolling hills of the Scottish borders, a landscapes often depicted in her work.
Through the years of following various teachers she has honed her unique blend of mixed media art style with varied themes of landscape and figurative often soulful art. Karina loves capturing the beauty of nature and evoking a sense of connectedness with nature and its energy, which can often be perceived as deeply nurturing for her audience. Karina is known for using vivid colors, creating a sense of depth with textures and blend of media which tends to highlights movement or transcending light. Her artwork has been heavily influenced by impressionism and also with mixed media techniques seen in abstract contemporary art.
Her work has been influenced by her love of the outdoors especially the sea and hills. Other influences are impressionist painters, Turner for his sense of light, contemporary abstract landscape artist such as Marina Syntelis or Annette Schmucker.
She has exhibited locally and in various galleries international in London, Paris and Berlin to name a few.
Vision
As a mindfulness teacher and artist and also psychologist I try to create art that moves the soul, creates hope and nourishes my audience. I started my art-journey initially due to both a passion in art and the need to escape mental health struggles in my home environment. Art has enabled me to stay mindfully focused and has been immensely transformative . I thus want to share the healing aspect we can find in nature with my audience. Themes I am currently drawn to often return to mindfully observing, noticing wisdom and our interconnectedness with nature. Thus, bringing the energy found in natures elements of light, flowing movement of water for example, back to life in my paintings. My ultimate aim is to bring to communicate a sense of resilience and hopefulness to my audience with my art work.
My art and spiritual journey has been heavily influenced by mindfulness and Taoism. In nature as in life nothing is permanent and everything is connected, everything flows . Thus nature teaches us this sense of going with the flow, that things always change and are constantly shifting. In our darkest moments that truth can give a lot of hope and energy. If you learn to be in the flow it is the best space to be for your inner wellbeing but also for creating art.
