Studio

LETTER TO MY FATHER.As a son I lost a father, As a father , a son. If the choice was mine I'd rather had not lost either one. I do not know where I come from or where I am to go. True, this fate is less than some, and more then some can know. My father, my son, you both I miss, but we shall meet someday in the kingdom where angels kiss to chase the clouds away.

Oil and pencil on wood

120 X 120 cms

Being an artist means incessantly healing one's own wounds and simultaneously opening them again in the process

Oil on wood

120 X 120 cms

We are All Obscure

Oil and pancil on paper

80 X 70 cms

New Series ( THIS PAINTING HAS BEEN SOLD)

Studio Work

Jesus in a box

Charcoal, pastel and wax on paper

98 X 160 cms

£ 3000.00

Memories of my Childhood.

Charcoal and pastel on paper

Dimensions: 96 X 154 cms

Price £ 3000.00

Exhibition Hong Kong

Rolf Lorenz will have a one man show in Hong Kong which starts on the 17th September at SIN SIN Fine Art.
Follow the link: http://www.sinsinfineart.com/artists/Contemporary/RolfLorenz/wabisabi/page1/

Dialogue of the soul 1.

Charcoal and oil paint on paper

Image size: 130 X 130 cms

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PASSAGE OF TIME 2.

MEMORIES

“Dance is one of man's oldest and most basic means of expression. Through the body, man senses and perceives the tensions and the rhythms of the universe around him, and then using the body as an instrument, he expresses his feeling responses to the universe. From the fabric of his perceptions and feelings he creates his dance. Through his dance he relates to his fellow man and to his world. " -Alma Hawkins

( Turn SOUND off top video by sweeping sound button to the left. Then press PLAY button on second video first. When figure enters the frame, press PLAY on top video and watch together as a preview for a propsed exhibition comprising 30 video installations)

"THE WINGED SERAPH"

The creative process takes mental, emotional, physical stress from inception to final abandonment. (As one of the quotes by Paul Valery so perfectly puts it... an artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.) Society looks upon us, sometimes, as the losers of this world because we eat, sleep, drink, think Art, and most times, we are not lucrative. This is who we are, what we feel, the only thing we can do... and then they buy the dialogues of our inner souls with which to adorn their naked walls.

We create images ,pictures ,paintings to pacify, enlighten, enrich and disgust. We don't conform, nor can we be moulded . We loose ourselves in self indulgent processes in order to 'feel' ...otherwise we would feel nothing. Can I explain the elation I feel when I become inspired ?... an ancient door, peeling and scathed by a thousand hands who have passed through it, a smooth pebble washed by eons of tides, the face of an aged man wrinkled with the lines of his journey...by the pain I cannot see but which burdens me, by music which releases my spirit and takes me to places I cannot visit, by the tender lips of passion... inspiration is in all things and all things inspire.

When I was young I was disgusted by the way Alberto Giacometti lived in his state of filth and squalor, living only for his art, doing what he could only do best. Now I understand his work and through his work I understand him. The creative soul is a curse and yet also a winged seraph.
( to be continued)

Interior View

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. (Paul Valery)

(Marilyn Monroe) I think that when an artist – forgive me, but I do think I’m becoming an artist, even though some people will laugh; that’s why I apologise – when an artist tries to be true, you sometimes feel you are on the verge of some kind of craziness. But it isn’t really craziness. You’re just trying to get the truest part of yourself out, and its very hard, you know. There are times when you think, All I have to be is true. But sometimes it doesn’t come so easily.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments.An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. (Ayn Rand, 'Art and Cognition'

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.(Leonardo da Vinci)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

(Pablo Picasso)

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is 'man' in a higher sense - he is 'collective man,' a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind. (Carl Jung, Psychology and Literature, 1930)

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. (Francisco de Goya)

Sacred Field

( Gold leaf on wood with wax

75 X 75 cms)

Sacred Field

Exploration on the Liberation of the Soul