Rocky (2024) Painting by Anja Semling

🎨 Painter and graphic artist
Anja Semling likes to alternate between motifs and techniques! Diversity is the artist's focus. She is not one of those artists who continuously follow the same style or technique in order to create a monotonous identity in the art scene.
The artist works in series and alternates between her themes. For example, there is the series Wild Animals, where each picture stages the naturalistically painted animal, on a fluid art background, an expressionist form of painting. Other series: Special Women, Elephants and more. Primarily living creatures depicted in an expressive style characterize the versatile portfolio of Anja Semling.
"Anja Semling's love of the animal world can be felt in every brushstroke; she has a unique ability to bring the elegance and individuality of the wild animals depicted to the canvas using a special technique with acrylic paints, brushes and palette knife. Her paintings are full of color, brilliance, life and energy and clearly show the artist's deep connection with her animal motifs."(Quote: Elisabeth Caruana-Feser, freelance journalist, Freiburg)

During her time as a graphic designer, Anja Semling already worked a lot with visualizations in the field of "applied art". Her passion for painting was always latent and so she actively began to paint in 2012. She initially painted in a classical style and refined the techniques. Over time, she changed her perspective and began experimenting with materials and other techniques. Her focus is thematically on motifs that show living beings: People or animals. She also focuses on abstract painting, which fascinates her in particular as a graphic artist because of its forms and structures. What Anja Semling's paintings have in common is that they are expressive. The pictures fascinate with their liveliness and quality of execution. As an up-and-coming artist, she already has many fans.
Anja Semling was born in southern Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1966 and has lived in Breisach am Rhein, on the German-French border, since 2010.
Paintings sold to: Germany, Ireland, Belgium, France, Austria, USA.
Exhibitions at home and abroad since 2018.
Member of VG Bild-Kunst.de, ART Gundelfingen (D), ART Bad Krozingen (D).
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• Nationality: GERMANY
• Date of birth : 1966
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary German Artists

The Artist was highlighted in an article in ArtMajeur Magazine:

Interview | Anja Semling: I drew and painted a lot as a child