Stephanie Hartstang
Vita
Stephanie Hartstang holds a Bachelor of Arts from the British Open University. Her passion lies in high-contrast, expressive watercolors, created in multiple layers, washes, and densifications on strong, high-quality handmade paper. Her works are characterized by extraordinary color compositions and an often astonishing sense of depth. She works primarily in her studio on the Baltic Sea, but also plein air directly in front of her subject matter, for example, in Hong Kong, Ireland, or Switzerland. She is a student of the Salzburg artist Wilhelm Fikisz.
Stephanie's second passion is cityscapes and landscape paintings in acrylic mixed media. These works are painstakingly created on canvas using a variety of techniques and materials; her teacher is the Austrian artist Bernhard Vogel. She likes to accompany her painted images with texts she has written herself, adding a further dimension to the visual experience with words. Her works are regularly featured in exhibitions in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Work in dialogue
She frequently creates works with her husband, the photographer Thomas Hartstang. Selected subjects are presented as a dialogue through painting and photography. During the creative process, the photographer and painter engage in intensive exchanges, from the joint search for motifs, to perspectives, colors, effects, and everything that the subject means to them personally. This creates inspiration, but also a lasting phase of mutual influence—in other words, a dialogue. Painted pictures and photographs are always documentation of a moment; but they are also a direct and personal expression of what is experienced, seen, and felt. They are a symbiosis of the objective external and the subjective internal.
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Exhibitions
- Exhibition at the Open Studio Day Karin Hansen, June 2022
- Open studio day, Atelier Südereiche, July 2022
- Exhibition "Watercolor and Photography in Dialogue" together with Thomas at Kunstraum Sörup, September 2022
- Exhibition “Watercolor and Photography in Dialogue”, Rosarium Glücksburg,
2023,
together with Thomas - Open studio day, Atelier Südereiche, July 2023
- Group exhibition at Kunsthaus Kappeln, December 2023 - March 2024
- Solo exhibition "Hamburg in Watercolor and Photography" with Thomas in the "Galerie im Levantehaus", Hamburg, January/February 2024
- Exhibition "Selection of Hamburg motifs in watercolor and photography" with Thomas in the "Hamburger Kunstgalerie" in Haus Jupiter, Hamburg, February/March 2024
- Solo exhibition "Schleswig - painted and photographed" with Thomas in the Stadtmuseum Schleswig, August - October 2024
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