ABOUT

Verena Spitz was born in Würselen in 1982 and has lived and worked in Aachen since 2001. She is a professional creative and a self-taught artist. She has felt a drive toward visual expression since childhood. She began drawing at a very early age. Her enthusiasm for photography developed when she was about nine years old. Painting followed during her teenage years.

Her works explore global themes: the prevalence of chaos and the longing for tranquility. These themes are visualized through the tension between restlessness and orderly forms, as well as between bold colors and muted, non-color tones. They are realized in abstract and abstract-figurative paintings, as well as in object-based works.

Her materials include acrylic paint, varnish, palette knives, painting knives, squeegees, brushes, and, of course, her hands. Canvases and often discarded materials such as boards, packaging materials, or found objects—whose unrecognized potential is brought to life. Verena’s intention is to set emotions free and give them a visual form—an earthly existence. She has only a vague idea of what the work should look like in the end. The result emerges in collaboration with the work itself.