This painting portraits a deceased family member and a milk goat. It is a painting about departure and arrival, death and life, young and old, all is present all the time.

Bergziege kommt, Bergziege geht

This painting is part of the series about the pandemic. It is about experiences of being together - apart, about movement and waiting, about uncertainty and the longing to have a plan. 

Kreise Ziehen

I make mobiles out of wire. I  love the way the wire figure's shadows  move on white canvasses, when you throw a spotlight on them. The shades sometimes overlap, sometimes they move slowly, then fast, depending on the bypassers movements. For me they are "shadow drawings" that become narrative. This work was made just after the news of the pandemic had spread and politicians seemed as clueless as the rest. It was a moment of uneasiness, alertness, yet one had to wait and see. 

Politiker, Anwohner, Corona

After experiencing how an illness changes roles in families  and how the loss of a family member leads to the re-adjustment of individual roles in family structures, I have painted this picture. Who gives shelter to whom? What is a meaningful encounter?

Shelter

This is a part of a series about milk goats and children. The last two summers I have spent a lot of time drawing children in play on the one hand  and my neighbour's milk goats on the other hand.  I wanted these paintings to communicate the sense of wonder that we can feel when we really stop and play, when I am drawing, when we are just breathing, becoming wondrously aware of our surrounding world. Its richness, its breathtaking beauty and yet all the uncertainty that comes with it.

Milchziegen 3

Social distancing was one of the shared experiences during the pandemic. People sat in parks in their own little chalk circles, making sure not to come too close to one another. People  shared a sense of "together - apart -ness".

Corona - Picknick im Grünen

I am interested in how cultural stories sometimes use animals as representatives for our inner states of mind. The donkey is a cautious animal that needs to feel trust and certainty in order to move on. Here, the donkeys are the woman's (internatl) protection and friends, who want to keep her save, yet they also block her way, since we often need to accept uncertainty and the lack of control to move on.

Von Eseln umringt

This painting portraits an Austrian farmer lady who I talked to about the role of women in rural areas, ageing and loneliness and about accepting life's beauty and harshness. All of these feeling fed into this work.

Frau Holle im Goldregen

This painting is about change and  opportunities which we dare to or not dare to perceive. Some of us remain reluctant, some of us take a leap (and the net will appear)

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Anna Grahlmann