The WORKS.

The element water is essential for Claudia Drexhage's work. Water represents purification, renewal and life. Water, is a great necessity, without it nothing can live. Water is a cleansing, healing, psychic, and loving element. It is the feeling of friendship and love that pours over us when we are with our family, friends and loved ones.

The structure of the water, the course it takes and its movements determine the appearance of the Claudias Artwork in a magical way. In the process, the colors make visible what otherwise would remain unnoticed.

From the flowing interaction of water and color, a beautiful and unique work of art is formed at the moment of painting, which in its genesis and evolution oscillates between chance and planned procedure. Claudia finds this process incredibly honest and direct.

A repetition of the same process, the duplication of a picture is practically impossible. The process of painting is far too intuitive for that.

Corrections or the overpainting of unsuccessful passages are also difficult or impossible in the painting process, since the color gradients have a high transparency. Ultimately, the artwork is created in one step. It is created in the flow.

For Claudia Drexhage, painting is meditation: A Calm Refuge. The complete switching off of the surrounding environment and the presence in the here and now make up the act of painting for her.

Unpredictability and chance are just as much a part of this moment, for her, as the anticipated artistic approach.