Who I am, how I work, topics, content

Exploring the world and people is at the center of my painting. Everyday impressions - movements, looks and touches, observing people, animals and plants - provide me with incessant material to paint, as does the daily work of the natural forces of light and weather.

I'm Robin Weuste, a freelance artist in the field of figurative painting. After graduating from high school in my hometown Solingen, I studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Siegfried Anzinger and graduated with an academy letter and the title "Meisterschüler" given by my Professor. I live and work in Düsseldorf.

I locate my imagery in myth, fairy tales and dreamed reality!

Encounters, memories, observations, dreams and stories form the motivic repertoire of my pictures. I would like to visualize this experience in a soul world in which people, animals and beings meet  often finding themselves  in  in a fabulous, supernatural atmosphere.

One could speak of a "remythization" of my environment. However, this is by no means a flight into the past, enthusiasm for the Locus Amoenus. Rather, it is a need for mystery and intimacy; is consensus of an ongoing discourse with the old masters; is condensation and expression of an immediate experience of nature. The beauty of our planet is always tangible. We just have to make ourselves receptive to it.

I paint my scenes on canvas in a simple way with oil paint or egg tempera. In this way, the color always remains very thin but still has great luminosity and I achieve an airiness that is very important to me. The pictures have to be airy, have to breathe so that the viewers themsevels can breathe freely while looking at the painting.

The naturalistic to realistic figuration in my paintings on the one hand comes from the direct, associative creative process and on the other hand from the sure line of a hand trained in drawing.

This naturalism contrasts with a high degree of abstraction in the use of colour, fed by a loose application of paint, which stimulates the imagination and, in interaction with the canvas, takes on an independent materiality.

I would like to build up a large area of ​​tension by contrasting the calm of the motif with a highly dramaturgical color composition - as two poles of a simultaneous perception. This results in an “in between” between superficial stimulus and deep meditation.