Earth Painting

Earth Pigments used by Ulrike Arnold for her paintings.

Photo of Ulrike Arnold

The work of German and International artist Ulrike Arnold gives me the desire to go back and start burying my textiles in the garden or leaving them for the season to see what develops. There is a real joy at orchestrating but having little control over the end results of playing with mother nature's provisions.

Arnold works with natural earth pigments on her paintings. She works in Asia, America, Europe and Australia in some of the more extreme landscapes like deserts and salt lakes. She studies and works with the earth directly to create her work.

The pigments are mixed with waxes and oils and are worked into her canvases after she spends time learning about the geology and landscape of a region. She even works with meteorites.

Her canvases are huge and imposing like the landscapes she interprets.

See her work at http://www.ulrikearnold.com/