About

Winnie Seifert paints her mostly large-format works in oil; her paintings speak of a seemingly untamed dynamism, above all due to their polychromy: on the blank canvas, large areas of colour alternate with fine brushstrokes, overlap or peek out from the depths as a signal behind another surface. The canvas always appears to be in motion - her paintings rarely stand still. This may be due to the primarily abstract effect of her painting style, but also - and this becomes apparent at second glance - to the associative narration of her works. She does not paint landscapes or scenes and yet …