Artist Statement – Vicky Anna Lardschneider
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My artistic practice centers on an in-depth exploration of natural materials and their transformation within the tensions between origin, time, and perception. I work primarily with earth pigments and natural found objects, which I collect myself and apply to canvas and paper using both traditional and experimental painting techniques. Through a precise and research-based process, I aim to reveal the tactile qualities and embedded histories of these materials, making visible the processes of change and impermanence.
My work moves between abstraction and material-based imagery, with light, texture, and spatial relationships playing essential roles. In the interplay of these elements, I create atmospheric visual spaces that invite a heightened awareness of nature and its rhythms.
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My paintings, such as those in the Meeresschutz and Wurzeln Suchen Wasser series, arise from a deep material engagement with the environment. By using natural earth pigments I collect and process myself, I aim to preserve the organic origin of each work. These pieces often emerge through layered washes and delicate surface gestures, allowing the pigments to speak through their own textures and tonal qualities. I see each painting as a kind of sedimentary memory, quiet but grounded, responsive to both landscape and time.
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Alongside painting, my photography explores similar themes through a different lens. In these image-based works, I focus on ephemeral details in natural and built environments, textures, surfaces, shadows, and traces, often captured during periods of travel and transition. The photographs are composed with an eye for quiet tension and spatial rhythm, and they often suggest moments of stillness or transformation. Whether documenting erosion, growth, or decay, I approach photography as a way of listening to place.
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Shaped by my background in architecture and my training in body awareness and psychodynamics, I am particularly interested in how space, light, and color affect human consciousness. My work continually explores the interconnectedness of nature, science, and lived experience. Through my process, I try to translate the layered complexity of the world into a visual language, one that evokes emotional resonance while encouraging reflection.
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At the core of my practice is a continual inquiry into thresholds: between the subtle and the material, the visible and the invisible, memory and presence. I approach art-making as a way of being in dialogue with what surrounds and permeates us. For me, it is less about asserting conclusions and more about staying with the questions.
