Sketchbook
Drawing was my first passion and my first profession. I studied book illustration at the University of Düsseldorf before my second study of fine arts in Strasbourg. For me, the ability to express himself and his sketches is the basis of every good artist and often the source of great artwork through drawing done after a number of conceptual sketches. For nearly one decade, I was a lecturer of architectural drawing at an international institution of UNESCO in Venice, teaching students worldwide. Nowadays, as an artist who creates his works mainly by photographic means, I still love these „out of world“ moments when I have the rare and quiet opportunities to sit somewhere on edge, like a Clochard, and dive into the fantastic cosmos of lines and colours while practising my perpetual and ambient observance and my right hand in a fine motoric translation of what my eyes see. A sketchbook is something very personal, very intimate – like writing love letters, never meant to be sent off. But I hope you will like some of my sketchbook pages here – not as artworks, but as practical exercises of an artist who did not forget his roots.