welcome to the website of Heike Steenwarder
about me:
After studying lllustration at the FH Hamburg, i worked as freelance Illustrator in different sectors, for example for: - Die Zeit, - Geolino, - Labyrinthmuseum Berlin and many more.
Exhibitions: Hamburg illustrates 2016, Hamburg illustrates 2018.
Now married, I live on the green edge of Hamburg in northern Germany.
The fascination of my art is the combination of different techniques and the imaginative motifs. I am interested in the relationship between men and nature, past and present, wich i constitute with nostalgic, modern and surreal stylistic devices. The contrast between fine painting and clear lines, forms and patterns is what i love. My art inspires to stories, new connections and own pictures in mind.
When i was a child i used to paint the downside of tables and chairs, lying under it. Now i love to paint on canvas, but still i take the position of an observer and change my perspective when i question: .. What if i was an animal? Who would i have been in the past? a.s.o.
process of work: