ABOUT

Verena Spitz was born in 1982 in Würselen, Germany. She has lived and worked in Aachen since 2001. She completed her training as a visual merchaniser in 2007. She studied communication design at Aachen University of Applied Sciences from 2008-2010. Verena is both a professional creative and an autodidact. She has had the urge for visual expression since childhood. She began drawing at a very early age. Her enthusiasm for photography came at around the age of nine. Painting followed in her teens.

Her paintings are mainly created intuitively and guided by emotions. She is driven by the world-weariness she has experienced since childhood, occasional depressive episodes, private and global events from daily life, as well as a pronounced empathy. Feelings such as anger, despair, fear and anxiety, but also hope and euphoria result from this.

Her color palette comprises three expressive colors - red, blue and turquoise. Increasingly, she is adding pictures in shades of gray or even black. Her working materials include acrylic paint, varnish, palette knife, squeegee and her hands. Rarely brushes. In addition to painting, Verena Spitz also occasionally ventures into other fields such as photography, objects or mixed media works.

However, Verena was and is most closely associated with painting. The intention is to let emotions out and give them a visual form; to give them an existence. The resulting works are mostly abstract. Occasionally, however, they can also take on figurative traits. She only has a vague idea of what the work should look like in the end. The result is created in cooperation with the picture itself.