Artist Statement ::

Gerlinde, a German national, worked and lived more than half her life in the Far East, where she worked for the German Foreign Service in their missions in Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong. Back in Europe she discovered her fascination with art and first enrolled in a Foundation Course at City & Guilds London Art School where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (painting) in 2003. She is currently enrolled there in a post graduate course, enlarging her skills and finding new ways of expressing her feelings.

She participated in several group exhibitions in London and was one of the participants in the "Reactions" exhibition organized by Exit Art in New York after 9/11, which is now in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Some of her glass pieces were part of an exhibition/auction of "Chil-Out" in Sydney, an organization that is concerned about the detention policy of children of asylum seekers by the Australian Government.

‘A lot of my work deals with pain and tries to provide a visual image and shape to an ineffable experience which, to a greater or lesser extent, impacts us all. Pain is present at our birth, recurs during our lifetime, physically and emotionally, and for many of us will accompany death. Pain comes in many forms - love being one of them.

I have researched ways of painting the formless; this has helped me in my quest to represent the indescribable. This search has also helped me to give form to my feelings about political issues such as war or the "big bang" - the beginning of life. I use different media, techniques and concepts, the colour red, clinically white backgrounds, glass, wire and shards of metal that cut through substance and space.
In this way I visualize pain that can be excruciatingly sharp, persistently present, or something that one might learn to live with - almost as a friend.

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