About his painting - from the figurative to the abstract

Painting philosophy: Quotes from Heiner Lammers

"I want to give all possibilities a chance."

"I paint what I want and how I want it."

"Even though I believe that art comes from art, when I paint I try to forget everything I´ve seen in art so far."

Heiner Lammers is interested in almost all facets of  painting - different painting media, different painting technoloques and painting styles. He does not want to exclude any of the possible painting motifs.

although he rarelyworks figuratively(figurative paintings was no longer lively and emotional enough for him after a while. This siuation changed after he began abstract painting. Since the first painting, he was eager to experience something new almost every day), Lammers paints animal portraits, for example, in a classic figurative style and other motifs such as landscapes or cityscapes in an imressionist style or at least influenced by impressionism.

Heiner Lammers takes great pleasure in the paintings of great masters. That is why he has interpreted some of their paintings in his own way in the past.

Heiner Lammers appreciates and enjoys very much the pictures of the Great Masters.has in the pictures of big masters. Therefore, it was inevitable that past he interpreted some of their pictures his own way.

He found his way to abstract painting via figurative painting in the aforementined manner. For the artist Heiner Lammers, mastering figurative painting means mastering the craft of art painting. For the artist, it is also a good finger exercise to maintain what he has learned, but at the same time an excellent basis for skillfull abstract painting.

As Lammers immersed himself in the world of fine art, his ideas and fantasies, in combination with various painting techniques, inevitably led him to the abstract. Abstract painting is now the focus of his artistic work.