| Nartana Holzweiler German Art Painter contact: Gallery Opium, Pattaya web: www.galleryopium.com/holzweiler |
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| Nartana Holzweiler German Art Painter contact: Gallery Opium, Pattaya web: www.galleryopium.com/holzweiler |
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| Biography |
Nartana was born on April 20th, 1959 in Aachen, Germany; the son of an artist and a teacher. During his formative years, with the encouragement of his mother, he frequented the Art Museums, which provided a sanctuary for a young man, witness to a divided Germany. At age 16, he began his formal education in art at the College for Design (Fachoberschule für Gestaltung), followed by the Highschool for Visual Communication (Fachhochschule für Visuelle Kommunikation). From childhood onwards Nartana painted. What began as a means of escape, became for him a meditation. The immediacy of paint provided Nartana with a medium through which he could encapsulate moments; recording, as you will in a diary, transient states of being; striving, always, for the state of "no mind". Prompted by an increasing dedication to his spiritual life Nartana left Germany and traveled with paint and brushes extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, eventually establishing himself as an artist and member of the Counsel of the Arts and the Society of Artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Nartana invites the viewer to engage on a more subconscious level, through form, texture, colour and space, endeavoring to create a place in which viewers can enter into their own dialogue. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Aachen, Berlin, Amsterdam, India and throughout the Southwest of the US, and recently in Thailand. |
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