In addition to painting, music also plays a big role in my family. We are open to all styles of music. So also for reggae. As a music-loving painter, I can’t get around the fact that Bob Marley really had a character head that absolutely had to be painted.

After the decision was made to portray Bob, I didn’t have to think long about the color scheme. It had to be the “Jamaican colors” for me.

After initial research, I discovered that the colors green, yellow and red are more likely to be the colors of the Rastafarian religious community.

In the 1970s, Marley was considered the best-known representative of Rastafari. He managed to give the black ghetto youth in the Caribbean and the USA a new self-confidence.

Rihanna’s portrait focuses on the symbolism of color. Rihanna should become a little more two-dimensional overall.

The dominant pink is a feminine color. She is friendly, tender, charming, sweet and sensitive. Pink is THE color to give designs a feminine touch.
However, the color pink can also come across as arrogant, scheming or egocentric. Exactly the right color choice for my motif!

How color symbolism has changed over the course of time is particularly evident in the example of the color pink. Until the 1940s, pink was a typical color for boys. At that time, girls’ dresses were often blue, the color of the Virgin Mary.

Companies such as Deutsche Telekom (Magenta), the magazine Cosmopolitan and the manufacturer Matell adorn the logo for the Barbie doll with pink.

Mark Forster – a young musician who has always impressed me with his lyrics. I was particularly impressed by the song “Auf dem Weg”, which is one of his older hits. It deals with the question of whether the goal is really the goal.
“I know now:
On the path I walk,
I have rushed past so many things,
what I’m looking for is on the way,
I’m watching now, I’m finally letting it happen.”

I know that for me, the journey is the goal, with all its ups and downs, mountains and valleys. That’s what life is all about.

Samu Haber. Everyone knows him, the blond Finnish singer. I already knew his music from the radio, but I first became aware of him as a coach on ‘The Voice’. Even though I sometimes found it difficult to understand him and his assessments with his Finnish accent, I still understood his attitude to life. He radiates total contentment for me, which I find impressive. Words are not the only language for communication.