I don't usually give my pictures titles, so every viewer has the opportunity to let their
imagination run wild.
This exhibition is different.
It is a homage to our endangered ice worlds - to our glacier worlds, the
glacier ice and its wonderful colours, an overwhelming nature.
I find inspiration in nature, here in Valais, with the glaciers, mountains, in the forest and
in the meadows.
The perceptions, they are in me as memories and then take shape on the canvas
through many layers.
Layer by layer, the glaciers grow,
layer by layer, my perceptions become a picture.
Letting go of my own ego, connecting with intuition helps me to stay awake to the
beauty of nature.
"We have art so that we do not perish from the truth," Friedrich Nietsche once said
"The true generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present. (Albert Camus).
Let us take care of ourselves and our nature, of our glacial worlds, so that we can continue
to contemplate the mysterious for a long time to come and remember a prayer by
Mahatma Ghandi on his deathbed in 1948
"You yourself be the change you wish to see in this world"
As Picasso says, when I paint, I don't just concentrate on "searching" but
rather on "finding"
We always find by doing and observing.
For the abstract painting I need a wide variety of materials (paint, tar, sand, plaster, glue)
and observe how they react on the canvas, what they do, how it flows. Here,
observation is a search and being able to wait until the material is dry.
The results cannot be planned. This is how creativity can be lived and experienced.
Here you can be a child and find the moment when the picture is right.
Wagner-Seiler Heidi
heidi.wagner48@bluewin.ch