ABOUT

"...and most of all it's about passion." 

about my art: it's like an injection....you get into the bloodstream and travel through the heart and at that moment they know you... M.J. Brumley
 
Picture making has always been an internal compulsion; my first ur ...morees began as a child, “I was always drawing” - these impulses continuing through to the present. Today, I create utilizing photography melded with graphic infusion. My search for the internal brilliance of subject matter drives me. My artwork displays a wide range of emotions embodying colors from darkest black to fieriest red. I sincerely desire that my passion and the intensities of my emotion will be conveyed through visual creations touching you in a personal way. There are a myriad of reasons to create - this quest has become my life.
 
Kerstin Kuntze about waterpassion °
In the series of water like ° I connect my passionate creative urge
with the joy of swimming. A waterproof camera - Nikon 1AW1 - allows me the dive into a different world of images.
The graphic editing reveals the core and opens new connections - often the photo dissolves into almost abstract shapes and colors.
What remains, is the core - the intensity of feeling life skindeep.
My art should breathe, what I love most about swimming.The force of the water that reaches the body - exhaling all the discomforts - the connectivity - floating - being carried -  the pleasure of loosing yourself -
a primal force that makes you feel life in full extent .
It's not just about swimming - my pictures become a parable for 'being'.
A tribute to life – to the power of now.
 
kerstin kuntze
 
1965          born in cologne/germany
 
1989-'95     study of graphic-design at °Folkwang University of Art°
                 graduated as :: Master of Arts ::
 
1985-'99     illustrator & art director at major advertising agencies
 
since 2000   professional A R T I S T° (show less)