Claudia Luethi alias Abdelghafar
I love to paint oil colours because they are smooth and I can paint in several
coatings. So there is a three-dimensional effect in my paintings.
I love colours to express the positive attitude to my live. I believe that there is
all the time a door open when I believe it. There is no sence to see the
negative things in live because all the people around me has also negative
things in there live.
A curator from Creative Concept Inc. describes in my paintings is an
understated incandescence and that my style is both contemporary and
classic all at once. It places me in a artistic realm that is somehow entirely
familiar. When someone looks at my paintings there is a vision that resonates
with the viewer long after viewing.
In 2006 I began to paint oil colour on velvet. I like to play with the structure
from the velvet. There is a special effect on the painting with velvet.
I love to paint animals, to bring there soul and character on the
canvas or velvet, to give them live that when you pass the painting you are
just thinking: „ups, this animal has it moved?“
Also the landscapes and cities-scapes have to live, I want really not to copy
only photos but that the people can smell the woods or the salt water of the
sea, hear the sound of the birds and the hoofs galopping over the floor. Then I
reached my goal.
I reach my goal when the painting is more vivid than the photos, when the
people stand there, look at and forget the time. So I like that the viewer will be
reached from the atmosphere of the painting. My subjects are animals,
landscapes and cityscapes. My goal is not only to make realistic paintings but
to give them a soul and live. So when you pass the animals on my paintings it
could be that you think they have moved.
they feel the sun on there skin, they hear the hoofs galopping over the floor or
the listen to the birds, the wind or the sea.
The story of my artist-name is a short marriage with an egyptian-man who had
this name. It sounds special so I kept this name as my artist-name.