Although I had studied painting in art university, entered USA as a painter, and Painting is to me the purest form of art, I had not been painting for years. In early summer 2021 I was diagnosed with cancer. This caused a big shift in my approach to my work in the way that I no longer tried to make myself fit to my surrounding even where it was inappropriate, but started an intimate dialogue between just myself and my inner voice. As a result I started painting again in a style and method I would have previously considered not marketable and outruled as a way to express myself. This made me feel very free.
Interestingly, automatically, these painting seem now, finally, to correspond to my ceramic sculptures; something I had hoped for in the past, but my painting and my ceramic then seemed very different from each other, as if made by differed people.
blue tree and black horse (2021)
Josiane Keller “blue tree and black horse” aquarell on paper, 27 cm x 35 cm (2021)
tree by a forest path with crows (2021)
Josiane Keller “tree by a forest path with crows” aquarell on paper (2021)
forest after crow passed (2021)
Josiane Keller “forest after crow passed” aquarell on paper, 27 cm x 35 cm (2021)
Pink Goat (2021)
Josiane Keller “Pink Goat”, aquarell on paper, 27 cm x 35 cm (2021)
Lambi – cover image (2020)
“Lambi” is the protagonist of a graphic novel I started working on prior to my cancer diagnosis. Some excerpts hav
Bufallo Girl (2012)
Josiane Keller “Buffalo Girl” ink, walnut ink on paper (2012)
Per Gynt 5 (2005)
Josiane Keller “Per Gynt 5” tempera on paper (2005)
Per Gynt 4 (2005)
Josiane Keller “Per Gynt 4” tempera on paper (2005)
Per Gynt 3 (2005)
Josiane Keller “Per Gynt 3” tempera on paper (2005)
Per Gynt 2 (2005)
Josiane Keller “Per Gynt 2” tempera on paper (2005)
Per Gynt 1 (2005)
Josiane Keller “Per Gynt 1” tempera on paper (2005)
The Narcissist / The Narcissist 2 (2004)
In 1998 a professor once told me, “nobody changes, people just show their inner truth like peeling an onion”, I re
garden (2000)
Josiane Keller “garden” ink, tempera on paper (2000)