The artist Ursula Klinger was born in Germany, where she graduated in Fine Art and History. After having made Connemara her second home for ten years, she moved her Irish base to Dublin in the late nineties. Extensive travel led her to paint for several months at a time in the USA, New Zealand, Spain and Malta. She is a member of the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club and has served as their treasurer for four years.
Oils are her main medium, although work for commissions also involved the use of watercolours, woodcarving, enamels, egg tempera, bronze and other media.
Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions and is represented in collections both in Ireland and abroad.
Oils are her main medium, although work for commissions also involved the use of watercolours, woodcarving, enamels, egg tempera, bronze and other media.
Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions and is represented in collections both in Ireland and abroad.
Ursula Klinger
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The architect and scholar Liam Carlin said that my work "addresses the problems of visual communication; the showing of what is unsayable about the human condition in its fragility and its potential in their ambiguity", a quote which outlines my practice so well. This ambiguity is reflected in the traces which the mostly absent humans have left in many of my paintings, telling a multitude of possible stories. Through time series evolve as themes are revisited to explore new facets and aspects.
My realistic figurative style has been influenced by the study of the surrealists as well as the old masters and is based on the traditional technique of oil painting, where under-painting and numerous thin layers of glazes create depth of colour and light.
The architect and scholar Liam Carlin said that my work "addresses the problems of visual communication; the showing of what is unsayable about the human condition in its fragility and its potential in their ambiguity", a quote which outlines my practice so well. This ambiguity is reflected in the traces which the mostly absent humans have left in many of my paintings, telling a multitude of possible stories. Through time series evolve as themes are revisited to explore new facets and aspects.
My realistic figurative style has been influenced by the study of the surrealists as well as the old masters and is based on the traditional technique of oil painting, where under-painting and numerous thin layers of glazes create depth of colour and light.
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