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Carmen Heidi Kroese
GERMANY
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“The way you express yourself often reflects your own emotions.”
Carmen Heidi Kroese has been living and working in the gemstone town of Idar-Oberstein, Germany, since 2019. She grew up in Switzerland and worked there as an interior designer, manager and painter. She received her artistic training at the new art school in Zurich, Switzerland and during years of further education and training in seminars, courses and private lessons with well-known, renowned artists.
Zuversicht | Mixed Media
$1,200
60 X 60
in today s turbulent times it needs confidence and conviction to believe everything will be good
Even as a child, Carmen grabbed attention with her creativity and love for colored pencils, which she preferred as toys. At school, she was happy when painting and handicraft courses were on the schedule, and she was able to create art. Highlights were visits to artist studios and museums. The self-painted works of art since kindergarten not only decorated the fridge in her parents’ house but also in the relatives houses and soon beautified the whole kitchen and finally conquered the whole house.
PEACE | Mixed Media
$1,200
60 X 60
An outcry from the deepest of soul
For Carmen it was an indisputable fact that she was going to be an artist. First, she studied interior design followed by art studies. After several years of professional life in non-artistic activities, she became self-employed in order to be able to devote herself more to her obsession with art. Prizes and awards followed and motivated. Her childhood dream soon became a reality.
“I follow my inner urge to paint and not a specific painting style.”
For her, painting means a vocation, obsession, passion, and fulfilment. The opportunity to develop, the freedom to escape from everyday routine. The attempt to capture what is beautiful and still healthy in this world, to capture it on canvas or paper, but also to address world problems. Be it the planet so mistreated by our species, the resulting environmental problems or wars with the unspeakable suffering of the people, especially the defenceless children affected.
HELP | Mixed Media
$900
40 X 40
Where? Nothing is any more as it used to be
....and suddenly everything was different
TEARS-Children in war | Mixed Media
$1,200
60 X 60
Carmen uses mixed media materials such as plaster and gypsum, sand, marble powder, rust and verdigris, wax, coal, threads, grass, chalk, textiles, iron filings, wood, chemicals, to name a few. Watercolours, acrylic, oil paintings, figurative pouring paintings, mixed media, and murals are created. The preferences for the materials used vary depending on the subject, the willingness to experiment or specific commissioned work.
“There are works that show almost chaotic features, either with wild backgrounds around a more classically painted pictorial statement or vice versa. But there are also pictures that appear perfectionist with meticulously worked out details so that the viewer is led to the picture statement.”
“The process of painting is an act of creation. Always new processes and expeditions in colors and the unfolding light, grope the way to the limits of the possible.”
Carmen does not strive for an individual style and does not paint in a specific direction, although she prefers figurative representation. She dedicates herself to her work with concentrated attention and often conveys to the viewer a hidden world that only becomes visible on closer inspection. For example, the “Deep Sea World” work looks like a colorful underwater scene with various fish swimming around. At second glance one misses aquatic plants and suddenly at third glance the deep-sea litter becomes visible. Also nets in which the fish are caught or already dead.
Achtsamkeit | Acrylic
$1,400
100 X 70
Our species is heavily involved in destroying our beautiful planet. Yet it is not too late
Her works skilfully oscillate between abstraction and concretization, between color impression and figurative representation. The motifs are clearly recognizable. The intended effect triggers moods and emotions. A sad motif presented in bright colors, for example a concretely painted crying child in bright colors, framed by an abstract background draws the attention and touches the viewer.
Tiefseewelt | Acrylic
$1,400
100 X 70
Under water the world looks impeccable at first sight. At second sight although the immense pollution of the sea as well as ghost nets where sea creatures get trapped and even tormented to death show reality
Carmen Kroese usually uses unmixed colors. Colorful popuris consisting of a wide variety of dyes are created by glazing. She uses layers in all techniques, whether in watercolours, oil, or acrylic paintings. Versatile contrasts are important to her, as are complementary colours, light and shadow, calm, and hustle and bustle. A repetitive game of dualities.
Disturbed to the deepest - no warmth - no security - totally helpless
NO WAR | Mixed Media
$1,200
60 X 60
“The variety of techniques and experimenting with materials inspires me again and again.”
Herr der Lüfte | Oil
$1,400
100 X 70
the bald eagle a majestic magnificent bird of prey can still claim his habitat till today
Technical motifs, architecture, flowers and still life can be found in her works. Carmen Kroese is a big animal lover. So, her favorite subjects are often animals and again and again people. Both species are shown with all their feelings and fates, their zest for life, their hope, their sadness.
Poaching and the enormouse loss of habitat in Africa and Asia make life hard for these impressive animals
Grauer Riese | Oil
$1,500
100 X 80
Carmen is a co-founder of the artist group VIDEAMUS, which organizes exhibitions in Germany and abroad with the involvement of other artists. She is active in exhibition activity at home and abroad since the year 2000. Her works are in public and private collections in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Italy and Poland.
Geballte Kraft | Acrylic
$1,500
100 X 80
Also our livestock are gladly sporty on the go
“I try to create images that trigger emotions in the viewer, make them think, but also provoke and give pleasure.”
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