Maren Wellendorf

Maren Wellendorf is an experienced painter who works with oil paints, acrylics, and collected colored sand on canvas and looks back on over 40 years of artistic development.
In Germany, her socially critical paintings and the paintings from the series "Andalusian Journey" and "Between the Wadden Sea and the Desert" were exhibited, including in Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfurt, Göttingen, and Worpswede. For her, landscape paintings are "the mirror of my feelings."
Years ago, she began a new series of paintings she calls "Rockfaces." They are portraits of stones, or rather, of rock and rock layers. They appear like abstract images, but they depict the structures, lines, and forms of a visible reality. She therefore calls this style "realistic structuralism." One sees the changing morphology of a landscape in detail, the passage of time, and the transience of life. In this respect, the paintings resemble faces and are portraits.