Harriet Keller-Wossidlo is a creator of expressionistic acrylic oil paintings besides being a talented writer reflecting in her works parables, prose, poetry, fairy tales creating space for interpretation. Her painting technique creates dynamic effects through relief-like structures and colour nuances. Narrative, metaphysical and aesthetic elements are characteristic for the artist.
Yellow – Red – Blue was the beginning of her pictorial representation at preschool age, transposing abstract impressions before language and writing could be fully learned and applied.
Teirrah’s parents said to her to paint “wind, waves, love, joy, music or sadness”.
But only with the three basic colours. Accordingly, the variety of colours was only possible for her by using them selectively. So she painted before she could write and thus learned how to translate emotional impressions in an artistic and meaningful way, which then became a present need for her in her further life and still gives her the possibility to lead thoughts into other spaces.
Her paintings are committed to contrasts. The multi-layered application of the colour elements makes it possible – without mixing the colours – to realise the effects of light perception and the dynamics of movement by means of spatula and scratch technique with steel pencil. Teirrah’s paintings allow individual scope for the viewer’s interpretation. The hand-guiding of the tools and the colour effect are thus intended to convey an overall impression that is not ostensibly decorative in character.
Through her subtle way of seeing, she wants to present a subject authentically, both in an abstract, expressionist or impressionist form of expression. The ink crayon or coloured pencil drawings, on the other hand, correspond to her need for precision, also to train the eye for fine nuances. The seemingly randomness of the pictorial impression is based on a deliberate intentional line management and is to be understood as an equivalent for the dynamics of the subjects.