Eric Hubbes
Deutschland
My paintings can be considered abstract, psychedelic, and expressionist with a surreal expression.
My images arise in a storm of thoughts and emotions that manifest themselves in forms and fractals, which I combine into a composition. This happens like in a dream.
In my pictures I let my subconscious run free. With the geometric and fractal patterns in my pictures, I also show my interest in natural sciences.
At the same time, I am also fascinated by psychology and the influence of the subconscious on our actions. I like to imagine when I paint that I communicate with the universe or that the universe sends me messages that I process in my pictures.
I have given my paintings the name “Grübel Bilder” or “Muse-paintings” because I transfer my self-doubts into something life-affirming and make art come out of it. For me, art is something spiritual, symbols have always fascinated me, as well as everything that has to do with magic, horror, and mysticism. I paint what fascinates me.
My pictures are aesthetic and inspired the viewer, who always discovers new elements when looking again and again. I often hear that my pictures are reminiscent of a diary. The viewer can obviously spend hours looking at them and have a new experience.
Lady Death
1. What’s your background?
I've studied Fine Arts in Utrecht for 3 semesters. After my return to cologne, I continued as autodidacte.
Most techniques I learned on my own. But since a very young age I had always a talent for painting.
2. What does your work aim to say?
I like the idea of the unconscious mind that unweels messages in paintings. And the feeling to be connected spiritually with the hidden knowledge and secrets of the univers. Art is like a door to the unseen world and makes it possible to communicate things where the language fails.
3. How does your work comment on current social or political issues?
The aim is mainly unpolitical, but because my work has a spiritual purpose it also reflects worries about environmental issues and some social issues, like "Time Bomb" or "Plastic World" I write ideas and thoughts in my paintings and process those topics. But it can also be personal topics or philosophical topics. It's a bit comparable to jean Michel Basquiat way of doing art. He said, that while he's making art he doesn't thing about art but about the world. Art is more like exhaust valve in that case.
4. Who are your biggest influences?
I mainly got my influence through street art. It pictures for me the traces of time. And often graffitis are covered with new stuff over and over again. But in fact I found a parallel to dali, Daniel Schmitt and jean Michel Basquiat. In the way of thinking and painting...
Plastic world
5. How has your art evolved over the years?
I researched a lot and painted very figuratively until I wanted that my mood and my feelings gain more importance. I started to make more abstract paintings, where I integrate all kinds of thoughts and moods shifts in terms of form, colour and shape. That is how I discovered my style...
6. What does art mean to you?
Art for me is the entry into the unconscious. It unconvers new worlds, new perspectives and new ways of looking at things which is very important to mankind. Because on one hand it needs structure, order and health but on the other hand it needs beauty, excitement, entertainment, adventure and change. Freedom is the key to happiness!
7. What’s the most valuable piece of art to you?
I don't have a most valuable one. But I have preferred ones. Those are actually rolemodels for new paintings. But also inspiration for further ideas. Making art is a process. There is no final outcome. The Artists path is infinite!
8. What’s next for you in the future?
I just go one step after the other. And follow the inner current of my own creativity.
The Scholar
