Petra Schott

Ephemeral Color Fascinations

Petra Schott

Frankfurt, DE www.petra-schott.de

“In my work, I mix and transform the remembered and the real, both vibrating with emotions. Nevertheless, my figures seem to elude the observer and stay in their own world. All basic themes of human existence resonate within them: love, sex, vulnerability, memory and ephemerality, and again and again the transience of the experienced moment.

I love to use expressively drawn pastel chalk lines and spidery scratch marks. Dreamlike fantastic webs and explosions of colors emerge as if by themselves. I also love to use diluted tones on canvas, multiple layers of grey-white-black tempera applied to the clay in order to unfold a dense network of traces, interspersed with grooves and furrows, scratched into the paint with a brush handle, fork or knife.

In my oil paintings, I explore the fascination of colors and shapes vaguely or directly reminiscent of human figures, landscapes and objects of everyday life. I love to put objects and human beings in a new pictorial context, thus questioning the normal way of experiencing and viewing a painting as well as reality.

In the two paintings here featured I show recent developments during the Corona time.

The woman in her beautiful pink dress seems to be in total isolation from the world placed against a background of blue infinity. She is in deep thought—as the title of the painting—and seems to reflect on her life, her pleasures and her future.

The second painting shows a table in the background, obviously prepared for a single person having a peaceful cup of coffee, whereas in the foreground items seem to fall down creating disorder. This is why this painting is called “Clash of two worlds”. COVID-19 has brought our normal life to a brutal stop. A new order appears, which is not yet fully fledged but in any event, it challenges our normal life. This challenge is expressed by the items falling down from the table. ”

Petra Schott Clash of Two Worlds, 2020 Oil and oil pastel on canvas 117 x 97 cm

Petra Schott Time For Deep Thought, 2020 Oil and oil pastel on canvas 125 x 95 cm

Petra Schott was born in Hannover, Germany. She studied art in Kassel, Germany, and later completed her training in London, UK. She has been presenting her work in national and international exhibitions since 1992.

Petra’s style can be best described as figurative abstraction and her main medium is egg tempera and oil colors. She works on inner ideas and emotions and let them flow into her work with subtlety. Her main subject is the human figure in consistently newly conceived constellations.

Schott regularly takes part in art fairs and is member of several national and local artist’s organizations. Her catalogue entitled “Into the open - Petra Schott“ is available online. Text by the artist 118