Olaf Schneider

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MEDIUMS: Oil | Pastel | Acrylic
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique ✔ Business

The driving force that helps and encourages the work that Olaf does, comes from the love and support of his wife Tracey. Olaf’s objective as an artist is to remain an amateur. “In the mind of an expert, there are few possibilities. In the mind of an amateur there are endless possibilities.” says Olaf. “I will paint an image and convey an emotional context that is accessible to the viewer. This is achieved by several methods. I sometimes like to use expressive and thick impastoed brush strokes, or soft blended strokes, rendering a sense of movement and texture, giving the painting a life of its own. My interpretation of color also sets the dynamic mood and feelings in my paintings. Finally the tones of my paintings are often ranging from the darkest to the lightest, in an effort to achieve maximum drama. This combination of information is created in a spontaneous and intuitive fashion. I am constantly in search of more of the elements of nature that have inspired me in the past, thus, continuing the cycle of inspiration and creation.” Since 1981, Olaf had the benefit of working with some of the best people in the industry.

“I would at this time like to ask you to take a moment to look at my work as an experience. You too have, within you a talent.” “A talent which wants to be discovered and explored.”

Art is a celebration of life, and the making of art is an expression of the sacred spiritual discipline. If a painting could, for a moment, capture the attention and awareness of the viewer through visual harmony, carry on a dialogue, bring the viewer further than the call of the senses, beyond a momentary concern for the past or future, to a timeless state free from thought and self consciousness. Then the work has approached the realm of art, the realm of life. Art and money don’t mix.