Sigrid Müller

"Acrylic collages"

01.04.2000 - 31.05.2000

She did not discover her love to painting until she "reached a sensible age" as they say in Swabia. Following several courses in private Art Academies this self-taught artist from Heilbronn-Biberach has now been wielding her brush for some ten years. Her watercolours and acrylic collages are full of clarity, surprising variety and exceptional expressiveness. Sigrid Müller already had a fairly full life behind her before she came to painting. After studying for industrial sales and as mother of two daughters (now grown up) she was for thirteen years in part-time employment at the psychotherapy centre in Heilbronn-Sontheim, initially in administration, and later in therapy. This period left a deep impression on her. Even then, in the mid-eighties, she was looking for a way "to create something which gives pleasure to people". Sigrid Müller is a person who puts her back into actions, who "has a go". This is also the way in which she has opened up for herself the world of colour, motifs and presentation modes. Persistently and single-mindedly - very much to the surprise of her family but also to their joy and encouragement.  During a stay in Oberammergau in 1988 she had an encounter with a painter in an elevator. Together with two others he was engaged on preparing an exhibition in that Bavarian spa. He encouraged her to have a try and even lent her his painting tools. From that moment onwards she was infected. The virus was modern painting and she was completely under its spell. Back at home she attended local educational courses for watercolour techniques and soon became aware that landscapes and flower motifs were not her line. At a private Art School in the Black Forest she finally found what she was searching for: courses in modern watercolour painting. The late developer turned out to be an energetic and talented pupil. She became immersed in the world of painting, spent hours after hours at her easel, often well past midnight, and let off steam through the use of brush and paint. What she did not expect at that time was that within a few years her paintings would grace the walls of industrial premises, medical practices, restaurants, banks and town halls. In recent years Sigrid Müller has concentrated mainly on the subject of acrylic collages. Collages are plastic shapes, are often more alive, and offer many different possibilities of presentation. This is what she intends. She says: " I want my paintings to be mobile and address the observer through their spontaneity". Unsightly or oppressive motives are not her scene. Rather she tends to paint the world beautiful. Still she does not remain superficial in her paintings. Openness, dreams and human relationships - all these can be found in her work. Further information about the artist can be found at Further information: www.sigrid-mueller.de

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