Katja Lohmeyer

Colorful; dynamic and energetic are Katja Lohmeyer’ paintings, each of them representing different scenarios with the use of the same subject: the portrait of a young woman. The artist’s ability in showing different situations with the use of just some colors is accompanied with the choice to add to the scene just one element to remind the specified meaning. ‘Unconscious’, a vertical painting characterized by numerous brushes of colors, is the starting point for Katja artworks The freedom with which the acrylic has been applied confers to the whole scene an energetic appearance. The brilliant colors that form a painting to another one, seem to disappear in order to give space to the subject and main character Spots of colors are visible in ‘Sea of Flowers’ where the previous colored background has been transformed into a flowering meadow from which a beautiful woman is rising. With the same natural meaning are ‘Power of Thoughts’ and ‘Exploding Thoughts’, where instead of having a colored background, the explosion of colors is visible in the representation of the ‘thoughts’ fluctuating and coming from the ladies’ heads The artist often starts her work by closing her eyes imagining what her picture should look like in the end. In the meantime, she decides on colors and techniques and lets herself be guided by her feelings. This method of creation is evoked into her paintings that perfectly represent her way of work and, ’Why Not’ is a denouncement of this. A Denounce to the freedom of creation.