IMPRESSIONS OF ART from Ingrid Rovan
I am a painter and I record my impressions with my paint brush and I am telling always of the mystique of landscape, nature and human.
Art never comes from nowhere. Its origin or its original form must exist in nature. Then, in my head and in my prefered expressive intentions, what I have seen, becomes something completely independent. In my work these origins are landscapes and studies of nature and human bodies. The impression conveyed by my painting is however different more luminous and poetic, never seen before. A big silence hangs over every place, movement comes only from the vibration of the colours, in gleaming yellow and flaming tones of red or in cool blue. High set horizons favour the contemplation of nature, and in beautiful colours and structures, can be experienced with a new intensity. Studies in water-colours or graphics arise in nature and are impressionistic studies from many journeys.
Latterly, I have been drawing more in my studio in Graz to commit them in mixed media to canvas.
Not just the impression of other countries, but also tangible materials such as fabrics, earth or sand from far distant lands are pressed into the service of artistic expression. This material three-dimensional on the canvas emphasises the multi-layered spiritual and emotional dimensions of my own seeing and interpreting.
My paintings to be like windows on to familiar views which we have never seen before.
PICTURES OF OUR WORLD AS “TERRA MYSTICA”
Ingrid Rovan, her art-name is ROVANI, was born in Graz . After Commercial Academy in Graz she was in management and marketing for an american company . An accident started her to change her life. She started to paint impressions of art and after some very successful exhibitions she start a study of art by the famous artist Christian Ludwig Attersee.
Many exhibitions since over ten years on important galeries and places of art in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Ingolstadt, Barbizon, Paris and the membership of the art-club Werkbund are important in her lifeline of art.