Light and Color - Plein Air and the Sketch

Cornelia Maiwald Cornelia Maiwald's artistic journey is driven by a deep love of color, luminosity and the beauty of nature. She works primarily with oil paints and mixed media drawings and loves the vibrancy and flexibility of these media.

She prefers to work outdoors in nature. This is where her paintings are created full of energy and spontaneity. Each brushstroke becomes a dialogue with the surroundings in which she tries to capture the fleeting. She is particularly fascinated by the challenge of translating the complexity of nature into simplified forms and capturing the essence of a place with strong colors and expressive brushwork.

She developed her drawing practice digitally through "The Addictive Sketcher Movement" by Adebanji Alade PROI. This technique forms the basis for her plein air work and helps her to better understand shapes, light, composition and colors.

Cornelia Maiwald regularly exhibits her works at plein air festivals in Germany. The teachings of Yo Rühmer, a well-known plein air painter, have greatly influenced her and deepened her connection to the landscape.

With her pictures she wants to invite viewers to perceive the beauty of the world around them more consciously and to discover the small wonders of everyday life.

exhibitions
May 11, 2024 - Plein Air Festival Kühlungsborn

July 5th - August 21st, 2024 - Plein Air Review, Bad Doberan

19th - 20th October 2024 - RNLI Art Show, Devon

Definitions

  • Plein Air

    Plein air painting is the art of painting outdoors and capturing the immediate atmosphere and light of a subject.

  • Sketch

    A sketch is a free, usually fleeting drawing that is used to capture ideas, explore motifs or capture a moment.

  • Alla Prima

    Also known as the "wet-on-wet technique", describes painting in a single session where the colors are applied directly to the canvas.
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