work in progress
Workspace with several paintings. I always need to have at least 10 paintings i am working on.
Sketches of seals transforming into Selchie, part of a painting of the burning ship.
The Merman is 20 years old and just recently i decided he wasn’t finished. So he looks like this now. I need to only finish little details here and there and he can go and breath his own air.
4 stages of the Phoenix. Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. I find the 4 elements in it as well with earth, water, fire and air.
A quite funny one between my so serious work. I called it “Freediving” and everybody liking the water can surely relate to it. I think the pattern of people develops conveniently.
The first set up of a figure in stone.I like particulary the 3 dimensional look of the leg .
Growing wings. the first set up
Art Exhibition: “No Style”
Astrid Adler is showing the Art-Exhibition: ”NO STYLE” during the Doonbeg Jazz Festival
The artist put this exhibition together to show the diversity of her work. Exploring abstract ancient symbols with charcoal and chalk on big tinted papers creating the look of stone, than, catapulting Celtic Art full colour into the 21st Century, where its construction takes completely different rules; you find Materialism still confused with Surrealism, Andre Breton still discussing with Salvador Dali if he is one, over Illustrations of local fairy tails to some study in pastels of the Stanley range, coming home to prints in Outsider Art “Scattery Island” and old favorite “The Weddingcross”.
Openings hours are: Friday 8-10pm, Saturday 2-5pm and Monday 2-3pm. Artist will be present. Venue: Strandcamping Doonbeg.
The Weddingcross
The upper part of the cross shows
The seasons to live through
At the bottom the bare winter sun
To the left the unwinding spring sun
At the top the powerful summer sun
To the right the dying off
autumn sun
The first image on the stem of the cross shows two persons holding hands and running over the summit of a mountain
The only way to go in the same time. Not one first and the other following
But if one lets go, both will fall.
The butterfly stands for the being in love, keep seeing the magic, the unknown in the other
Ying and Yang
The moon stands for intuition,
Sharing and similarity
On the contrary to the sun meaning individualism
Under the moon two people holding their heart
At their feet the Celtic tree of life
We grow quicker in honest, loving relationships
All of it resting on the Old Turtle
Who carries the world
Surrounded by the tamed dragon to
protect her
>Available as limited edition offset print on acid free paper,
numbered, signed: €25
In local and handmade frame: €50
Metarealistic/Surrealistic work
Astrid Adler and her Metarealistic work.
As a young girl, she attended art classes in the birth town Brühl, near Cologne,of Dada grounder Max Ernst. The study of Surrealistic painters where part of her secundary education.
To achieve dreamlike effects upon canvas, Ernst invented many techniques. One of these, first noted by Leonardo da Vinci, is that of observing strange shapes in natural objects. Salvador Dali, called that the “paranoic Method”. It is an interpretation of the image, depending on the level of imagination of the viewer, where in the one image, there can be seen different motives.
To achieve this very imaginative dream landscapes automatic painting is one of the surrealistic technieques used. The hand is allowed to move absent-mindedly over the canvas and by doing so letting the subconscios emerge. The artist can then develop images based on what is seen.
Adlers work is clearly influenced by the Surrealistic painters. But she developed a practice with the unconscios, which allowes her to guide her mind to archetype images.
That is what makes her work Metarealistic. It does not show subconcios randomness but moves beyond psychological consciousness.
It tells of old mythology and wilderness, it is a spiritual interpretation of other dimensions. It shows us, that there is more to reality than appears at first sight.
www.astridadler.com surrealistic and metarealistic work