December 10th, 2010
Petra Voegtle
When someone shines a nice, bright light on your business in a blog post, such as Petra Voegtle did for me here, it is good form to return the favor. Now, this is neither a chore or a difficult obligation considering the scope and artistic skills represented in her beautiful work.
Petra began her artistic journey with wood carving, which led to explorations in painting and art photography. Her current medium of focus in painting on fabric, mostly silk, and going back to her “roots” her recent work features highly textural treatments with the fabric which she calls “silk carving”.
She is particularly inspired by the overwhelming ornament found in temples and other places of workshiop in Southeast Asia.
You can find the portal to Petra’s work through here main art website, Vyala Arts.
I especially love this portion of her artist’s statement.
Our whole life is surrounded by magic and this is what I want to make the viewer see. Ancient cultures inherit magic. Sometimes we fail to interpret ancient pictograms and images but we feel a certain affinity and similarity in modern symbols. This is pure emotion that speaks to our secret wishes and hopes. There is magic in all living creatures but seldom enough we care to see it. And there is magic in each and every landscape on this planet – sometimes quite obvious and sometimes only after a second look.
The two paintings above feature imagery created with stencils and wood block printing. Besides her art website, Petra has multiple blogs including Art and Interior and a fabulous photography and color blog, but I think that the best way to view her original and beautiful artworks (the silk painting are to die for!) is on her Etsy site.
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December 10th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Dear Melanie,
I am absolutely speechless about your blogpost and the time you especially invested to write at this time of the year. I really cannot thank you enough for this. I am sending you lots of hugs and a big big thank you!
Yours heartily,
Petra