Jardim Intenso (2023) Painting by Marcia Ehbrecht

Marcia Ehbrecht (1956, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil), As a contemporary artist, I have always loved painting. Since childhood, I loved drawing and painting with colored crayons, and my greatest gift was always receiving boxes of crayons with a large number of colors. I started painting with sketches. Then I moved on to painting with acrylics on canvas. As the daughter of a German father and a Brazilian mother, I am familiar with both cultures. In 1974 I lived with my paternal grandparents in Hamburg to learn the language. This year I did a lot of drawing and painting in my sketch collection. My dream was to study at the School of Fine Arts, but my professional exam indicated the medical field as option 1. So in 1977 I went to study agricultural sciences and then veterinary medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro because my father had decided that he was the owner of a farm in the central hinterland of Ceará, in Quixadá. Several years went by without me thinking about painting. Between professional mistakes and successes, and as a mother of 2 children, I finally directed my artistic side towards fashion and worked in this area for a few years. In 2006 I attended a drawing and painting course for one year at the University without Borders Fortaleza. After the course I took private lessons with the painter Ricardo. My teacher always said: How do you learn to paint? By always painting... painting... and painting... And so I painted for several years... The references that inspired me in my more mature phase were Gustav Klimt, Gerhard Richter, Van Gogh, Matisse, Claude Monet among others. On all my trips to Europe, I always tried to visit Paris, Vienna and Munich so that I could admire the great names of world painting up close. In 2017 I moved to Germany and have devoted myself fully to painting ever since. In 2021 I took on the challenge of writing a children's book by the author Ulf Tödler entitled "Santa Claus Junior - Baby Claus escapes" to illustrate. In June/July 2023 I took part in a solo exhibition at the café "Der Kleine Prinz" in Lüdenscheid, the city where I live. I am self-taught and have developed incredible versatility in the different techniques. My paintings range from watercolor to gouache to acrylic on paper or canvas. The style can vary, but it is usually contemporary, modern, abstract, and recently I have become a great sympathizer of neural painting. But whatever the style, my painting is always cheerful, with bright colors, often funny, and in almost all paintings you can see my passion for animals, plants and flowers, moving in a world where there is no place for depression or sadness.

• Nationality: GERMANY
• Date of birth : 1956
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• Groups: Contemporary German Artists