Sparkler
Digital on Paper
12x9in
Germany
Kathrin Sehl combines analogue and digital painting.
She works with ink, watercolor, acrylic, oil, and digital tools. In her paintings, she explores the interplay of form, surface, and volume—between two and three dimensions.
Central themes in her work are seriality, repetition, and the relationship between objects within a group. Through arrangement, proportions, and the play with empty spaces, a rhythmic web emerges – between reduction and superimposition, order and chaos.
In her digital works, Sehl utilizes a specially created symbol archive, which she uses like painting materials. With the help of a special program, she paints in translucent or impasto layers, both intuitively and structurally.
This creates visual worlds that appear abstract from a distance and reveal thematic structures up close – snapshots of a multi-voiced, finely composed world.