Biography by Gerda Elfring

Landscapes and animals, these are the main principles of the paintings by Gerda Elfring. With firm bristle brushes, a strong brushwork and striking colors put them her subjects powerful on the canvas. Among other things the rivers country where Gerda Elfring born, translates them into lyrical-abstract works. What excites her comes in large colour areas and barely detailed parts on her cloths, in which emotion of the experience is more important than the exact representation of the subject. Gerda Elfring paints especially colors and shapes; in powerful compositions and with personal colours gives them her perception of reality again. As a result, the compositions of Gerda a varied end result show: sometimes figurative and recognizable, then again strongly abstracted with an emphasis on experience. In the nature-made sketches and photos will be worked out in the workshop, where the colours intuitively on the canvas and the sketch only the handle is. The reality is for Gerda Elfring led to very personal paintings.