Landscape Painter - Oil Painting - Watercolour - Nature

I guess it was the summer of 2009 when I travelled for the first time with my new black Audi A3 from Berlin to Bilbao, making several stops. One night I slept in Beaucaire and the next day I made another stop at the beach near Narbonne. The day was hot and windy and there were lots of people on the beach. I took a big swim, diving in the blue and arrived that very day in the Basque Country, completely relaxed because of the swimming despite having been driving for the whole day… Sometime one autumn I stopped on my way back at the same place and made some pictures. There was no one around… Acrylic and graphite on canvas 80 x 60 cm Narbonne Plage

From that desert I could see the blue mountains far away and I guess I was looking at the Pyrenees which divide France from Spain. Acrylic and graphite on canvas 60 x 50 cm Desert Narbonne II

On the same trip I made some stops in the deserted landscape. It was hot, dry, beige and blue. Sand and stone. Later I would have my reward in the deep blue ocean. Acrylic and graphite on canvas 60 x 50 cm Desert Narbonne I

Right on the Nervión-River mouth in Bilbao where the docks separate the river from Ereaga Beach some days the swell comes in allowing it to surf. Nowadays it is pretty clean, but in the past this was still an area close to the industry. First time I surfed there my friend Kiko told me the water wasn‘t that murky and dirty… He said when sitting on the board it was transparent enough, you could still gaze at your feet…. Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 cm Private collection Bilbao El Abra Bilbao Getxo

The days at the summer festival ‚Camp Tipsy‘ were dry and hot. I slept covered only by a military tarp which was open by the three angles unlike a tent. Those days I awoke looking at the grasses and hearing the cicades. First thing I did was jumping into the lake for a swim before returning to the festival area to get some breakfast. Over the day I chilled and swam several times by the lake feeling like a frog and also found inspiration in painting the little red boat sitting at one of the wooden piers. Pencil, crayon and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Boat at the lake in Bernau near Berlin

Acrylic and graphite on canvas 60 x 50 cm Untitled/ irish castle Dunverra 2

Watercolour on paper 25 x 18 cm Private collection Munich Untitled/ Ilbarritz 2

I made this drawing when I moved to Munich copying it from a black and white photograph from a book about Munich. As I had freshly arrived my mind traveled through the Leopoldstreet, over Munich and all the stories I was about to live in my new city. Pencil on paper 30 x 23 cm Untitled/ Leopoldstrasse, Munich

Ink and water on paper 29,5 x 21 cm Untitled/ Mountains

Ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Private collection Gstaad Untitled/ Houses in Saanen

Pencil and watercolour on paper 36 x 15 cm Untitled/natural pools Langre

Watercolour on paper 36 x 15 cm Private collection Munich Untitled/ Irish Coast

Pencil, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ Karlovy Vary

With the last rays of the sun I used to sit at the highest hill staring at the Southwest while my eyes would get lost in the big mountain chains over 4000 m which divide Switzerland from France and Italy. Then I let the skis dive into the powder snow and start making trails as I go downhill… Pencil and watercolour on paper 30 x 23 cm Snow tracks

When I was living in Icking, near Munich I used to swim in the little lake near the river. I liked to let go the evening gazing at the water reflections and the fish beneath. One sunday I had nothing to paint at home, but some make up colours laying in the bookshelves of my hired room, so I took them and a bit of olive oil to dissolve the paint. This was the media I used to make these drawings. Pencil, make up colours and olive oil on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ Water reflections on the lake in Icking

That day of the conference in Ingolstadt I stared at the landscape and the dark stormy clouds. For there is only a glance I can have from the landscape looking throughout the car’s window, I used to photograph it so I can dive into the landscape later when I paint it. Pencil, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ On the highway to Ingolstadt

That winter I lived in Schönried, looking straight at the mountains in Gstaad, the Glacier and Videmanette. It had been snowing during the day and in the afternoon, after skiing I sat at home and painted the mountains when the clouds opened letting some sun in. Crayon and water on paper 30 x 21 cm Schneegrau/ Snowgrey

One of my favourite places in Berlin is almost at the bottom of the Prenzlauer Allee, a little, quiet place going up some stairs surrounded by big trees, feeling outside of the city, like in an oasis, where you can let your gaze go towards the vibrating city center, the Berlin tower, the cars and the flimmering lights… Pencil, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee

It was a snowy winter day when we left Munich for a day, to go to Ingolstadt for a conference. I took some pictures from the car. The landscape had a thin layer of snow still showing the pale grass beneath. No more leaves left on the trees and stormy clouds around. Pencil, crayon, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ On the highway to Ingolstadt

Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 40 x 25 cm Untitled/ Trucks on the highway to Ingolstadt, petrol station III

Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 40 x 25 cm Untitled/ Trucks on the highway to Ingolstadt, petrol station I

Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 40 x 25 cm Untitled/ Trucks on the highway to Ingolstadt, petrol station II

We were always dancing and hanging around the ‘Club der Visionäre’ in Berlin, right on the creek that flows into the river Spree. Once and again we went to the Aral Petrol station nearby to get cheaper drinks, food and cigarettes… Dancing, chilling or just flirting on the wooden platform on the water of the creek mostly Jorge, Alejandro and me. Sometimes we stayed there from 9 to 9! Acrylic, graphite, spray and stencil on canvas 80 x 60 cm Untitled/Aral-Club der Visionäre

The docks in Westhafen, Berlin-Wedding is the kind of industrial area, where I find inspiration. I often cycle around those places and chill at the waterside of the ship canals. Pencil and crayon on paper 30 x 25 cm Untitled/ At the docks near Westhafen, Berlin

Pencil, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Private collection Munich Untitled/ München Odeonsplatz

Ink and water on paper 29,5 x 21 cm Private collection Madrid Untitled/ Mountains by Gstaad

Pencil, watercolour, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Private collection Munich Untitled/ München Leopoldstrasse

A bike shop from the old days right in the center of communist Berlin, which disappeared due to gentrification. Crayon, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Fahrrad Flöckner am Alex

I used to cycle at speed with my Cannondale Blue Thunder as I called it, a race bike, through the whole city of Berlin. Oberbaumbrücke far at the border of the ancient Ost-Berlin with West- Berlin is a bridge where you get the winds from the river and the winds of time. Crayon, ink and water on paper 25 x 18 cm Untitled/ Berlin Oberbaumbrücke

I used to cycle home from my studio in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg to Wedding and make a stop at the ship canals’ shore. Westhafen is the kind of industrial area where I find inspiration and the Agip petrol station stands like an island at the crossroads, like the frontier halt between two worlds. Acrylic, graphite, spray and stencil on canvas 80 x 60 cm Untitled/Agip-Behala Westhafen

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