Gesa Reuter

Being born in the north of Germany, I have always felt a close connection to the elements water, wind, air and northern skies and a deep love for the sea. The colors of skies, clouds, water and light keep fascinating me and give me strength and power. I have been an abstract landscape painter since 1996 and have started to professionalize my work since 2016, exhibiting a lot and selling my art to national and international clients.
Recently I have been painting much with waterolors and gouache because painting in thin layers gives a special lightness and airyness to the paintings that I love very much and have first experienced when seeing the works of Mark Rothko. My colours are usually applied in many layers like the techniques of the old masters: gouache or watercolor to start with, later other media such as egg tempera, acryl, oil will be added, often mixed with pencils, ink, pastels or wax. Changing between works on paper and works on canvas allows me to explore many of the chances and possibilities that lie in letting the water do the painting. Traces, running marks, drippings are wanted and welcome. This way I can follow the traces left by the water and only after the drying process I will start making the decisions about composition and what is allowed to stay, what must go. Sometimes I have to do this process orientated painting several times in one work, sometimes the painting must be stuck away for a few weeks to give me the inner distance needed for those decisions. This way many layers form a painting and this is similar to life itself - we become more interesting and deeper with each layer of experiences, good or bad, light or shadow. Most of my paintings seem to be landscapes, but no real ones, they are mainly inner landscapes connected to my inner feelings and emotions.

Since 1996 artist training in the well known Summer Academy of Schwalenberg/Germany through professional painters from the Universtiy of Arts in Berlin: Helga Ntephe, Jürgen Noltensmeier, since 2016 Art Academy Augsburg: Rainer Kaiser, Andrea Rozorea, Prof. Piotr Sonnewend.
Watercolor master classes (Sergey Temerev, Russia).

2019: Winner "Baltic Sea Scholarship", Kunsthaus Stove, Verein Meerkultur e.V. Germany
2017 I 2019: Amateras Mini Paper Art Award, Sofia, Bulgaria, nominated
2017: "Recht und Armut" Award, München, nominated
2017: Kitz Award, Austria, nominated

2022:
• Red Dot Miami, Art Basel Week, Miami, USA (G)
• Huntenkunst, Visual Art Event, Ulft, Netherlands
• Global Connection Watercolor Exhibition, Espace Art Galerie, Albi/France (Katalog)
• InTracht, Leuchtturmprojekt NRW, Galerie Bachrach, Kunstverein Schwalenberg/Germany

2021:
• "Pauline - eine Spurensuche", Galerie Haus Bachrach, Kunstverein
Schwalenberg/Germany
• "Freiheit II", Ausstellung lippischer Künstler, Robert-Koepcke-Haus, Schwalenberg/Germany
• “Neu gesehen”, 47. Detmolder Kunsttage, Stadthalle Detmold/Germany
• IWS Watercolor Society Vietnam Fall 2021 Exhibition, Vietnam (Katalog)

2020:
• Das Aquarell, DAG/GWS, Museum für Kulturgeschichte, Kevelaer, Germany (Katalog)
• Internationale d'Aquarelle, Galerie Art Espace, Albi, France (Katalog)
• Huntenkunst, Ulft/Netherlands (postponed to 2022)
• Art Expo New York, with Kun:st International, "Harmony Project", NewYork/USA (cancelled)
• "Eiszeit", Kun:st International, Stuttgart/Germany)
• "Transparenz", WBK Essen/Germany (cancelled)
• "Freiheit", Online Exhibition, Robert-Koepcke-Haus, Schwalenberg/Germany
• Druckgrafikprojekt “12Monate-12Originale”, Berlin/Germany

2019:
• "Wider das Vergessen", Robert-Koepke-Haus, Schwalenberg/Germany, (G)
• Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, with gallery "artvergnuegen", Hamburg/Germany, (G)
• #print_affairs_2019, Kammermusiksaal Friedenau, Berlin/Germany (G)
• "Zauber des Aquarells", Castle Burgau, juried annual exhibition of GWS, Düren/Germany, (G)
• Kunst Offen, Kunsthaus Stove, Stove, Germany (S)
• Spring Exhibition, TryitART Gallery, Bragg Creek/Canada (G)
• "Taste of the World" Exhibition, Back to the Picture Gallery, San Francisco/USA (G)
• selected for IWS Watercolor World Exhibition, Galerie "kunst", Zürich/Switzerland (G)
• Paper Art Festival, Amateras Art Foundation, Palace of Culture, Sofia/Bulgaria (G)
• "Dandy Dinner", Kunstverein Schwalenberg, Galerie Bachrach, Schwalenberg/Germany (G)

2018:
• "Reichlich Weiblich", Robert-Koepke-Haus, Schwalenberg/Germany, (G)
• Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, with Gallery Unique/Italy, (G)
• Open Studies in Lippe Preview, Schloss Brake, Lemgo/Germany (G,S)
• "Magic of Watercolors", Mühle Malstedt, Malstedt/Germany (G)
• The Other Art Fair (TOAF), Bristol, UK (G)
• "Kind of Art", Projekt, Galerie Schürmann, Kamp-Lintfort/Germany (G)
• Huntenkunst, Ulft, Netherlands (G)
• Kölner Liste, Discovery Art Fair, Köln with Gallery Unique (G)
• PostkART-Verbindungswege, Atelier Anschnitt, Dortmund/Germany (G)

2017:
• Schwalenberger ARTvent, Schwalenberger Kunstverein, Schwalenberg/Germany (G)
• Solo Exhibition of new works „Water and more...“ , KIZ 23, Detmold /Germany (S)
• Altonale Kunstherbst Hamburg/Germany (G)
• Art`pu:l Emmerich, PAN Museum, Emmerich/Germany (G)
• „Law & Poverty“, competition and exhibition, curated, Munich/Germany (G)
• Paper Art Festival, Amateras Art Foundation, Galerie Finesse, Sofia/Bulgaria (G)
• Solo Exhibition „Blue Worlds“ in Detmold with Pro Familia(S)
• Open Study in Lippe Preview, Schloss Brake, Lemgo/Germany (G)

I have always admired and been influenced a lot by the American Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly and Clifford Still. I have seen many exhibitions with these artists and learned a lot from seeing their art, but I don´t want to copy and express my own visual language instead.

landscapes, seascapes, abstract landscapes, fluid paintings, abstract, mixed media