Jana Dettmer

Visual Poetry
Jana Dettmer uses her intuition and sensitivity for the variety of psychic signals in her paintings. In her paintings she conveys the aesthetic, psychological and philosophical meanings of colours. Her strength is the abstract painterly expression. In the broad field of abstraction and colour painting, she finds her style primarily in the areas of monochrome, gestural and geometric abstraction. In addition to the traditional tool of the brush, the artist also uses spatulas and squeegees. The resulting broad structures of the colours create fascinating landscapes. The random mixing of the colours and the smoothing of the material create pictures of touching abstraction. Each painting becomes an experiment: tangible visual poetry. Colour is the dominant theme of painting and colour is the origin of the painting, it is the actual image carrier.
Her works enable the viewers to concentrate on themselves and their own perception. In this sense, colour is the element that helps to intensify sensations and thus make them visible at all. This means that colour is no longer merely a material part of a picture, but becomes a means of projecting one’s own world of experience during the act of viewing.