Tanja was born with quite some talents, but it was only after a sharp cut in her rather structured life as a DJ and composer, that made her rediscover her first great love: Painting. More concrete: Abstract painting as an expression of her other soul, her more radical and wilder soul. Her “craziness”. Because if Tanja creates her color world, space and time lose priority. All that counts is the sheer explosion of feelings of that moment, which she brings onto the canvas, unfiltered and in colorful Acryl-colors, layer by layer. And when she loses herself in this kind of expressionism, the surface has to be large, as large as her internal drive and the urge to change this drive into creativity.
“I love big thinking, big pictures” says the artist who actually wanted to attend a School of Arts and Crafts and who discovered her painterly core at an early age. However, it would still take some time before she could bring this innate talent to life. Another talent, namely her ability to use her delicate and fotogenic presence for international fashion labels on catwalks and for top class shootings, was clearly standing in the way.
It could have turned out differently because the creative vein took hold of her when she was very young: “My mother worked for a German company that marketed handicraft products. I grew up so to speak with the implementation of creative paint- and handicraft ideas and created, amongst other things, my own Christmascards until I was a proud 33 years old. I regularly worked on her ideas for various presentations, using paint and a brush. From the 3rd grade until becoming a teenager, I liked to draw accurately with a pencil and by doing so, I was able to deal with my problems in adolescence. I guarded myself against teasing and hostilities. I was much taller than all the others and somehow different from my schoolmates. Excluded by my comrades, I withdrew into myself and felt no more valuable.
The success as an internationally sought-after model strengthened my self-respect and my self-esteem enormously. I became encouraged and ambitious to reach my goals. “My fire was lit”.
Later, when I was even more on the road for my job as a DJ, it became inevitable that I did not have much more time for painting and transforming my creativity into colors and shapes. It was only after Corona, which crippled my passion for djing overnight and made me lose my main source of income, I found more time for my great hobby “. Tanja regained her inner balance. An emotional harmony which a creative person like her could not have acted out, without the practice of her earlier performances. “Painting releases feelings in me which I used to express only at the mixing console. I cannot imagine how I would have dealt with the events on this world, otherwise”.
“I captured the heavy sadness and powerlessness in my paintings in a subconscious aggressive way and the deep involvement in art helped me a lot to forget the difficult times for a moment”. Tanja succeeded in bringing her feelings to mind, to express and not to ignore them in order to find her strength again. As a human being, she is constantly questioning, full of emotions and uncertainties. And precisely this depth, authenticity and intensity is being reflected in her works of art.
Her imagination is limitless. She occasionally used to paint figuratively, but she takes her “Wild Side” out of the cage these days by applying colors onto the canvass in an uninhibited and irrepressible way. “It is very important to me to show my feelings and impressions in abstract painting”. Every painting reflects strong emotions from her own life, which are being processed this way. Whereas she is totally planned, structured and punctual in real life, painting allows her to let go, to let off steam, to free herself from the shackles of daily life, the demands of others, the legalities of business life and the self-imposed reliability. Here she can be aimless, crazy, unpredictable and detached. Dynamic brushstrokes produce a colourful image, the meaning of which, she must not show uncensored and without taboo, in real life.
However, there is one evil which she could not eliminate until today: her impatience. “In certain situations, I should like to be able to stamp out this weakness in order to be able to concentrate and calmly focus on the essentials”. Therefore she is working hard on herself and found an interesting starting point: “I invented a way of painting which has brought me to a halt, become calm and patient”. She combines structural thinking with a particular confidence in life. Being in a flow, the course of life is manifesting itself in her painting and each individual painting has a different structure, a different pattern and a different color theme. Just like us humans, we are equally unique and diverse. Everyone is different which is good. Each one of us has her or his own course of life and mine is filled with creativity, courage and commitment.
The two different styles of her works of art, which she describes herself as “explosive art” and “structured art”, characterize her diversity. On one hand, it reflects her fast, intensive and explosive life as a DJ and artist and on the other hand, it reflects her down-to-earth, warm-hearted, professional and structured life of a business woman.
Abstract painting is the expression of my creative and
wild soul - my crazyness. Art and music have been my
passion for more than 30 years now. My destiny is
to to unleash peoples mind and captive them
in my spell of creativity.
Abstract painting is the expression of my creative and
wild soul - my crazyness. Art and music have been my
passion for more than 30 years now. My destiny is
to to unleash peoples mind and captive them
in my spell of creativity.
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