Gero Paul

Gero Paul has been drawing and painting since childhood, when he admired great European masters in museums when traveling with his family. Living out his creativity, finding your limits and discovering the laws of nature are his great passions. Understanding nature is a prerequisite for his form of creativity. He has maintained this approach to this day. He observes and analyzes specific themes, from which an idea for a picture develops. It is important for Gero Paul that a picture begins to come to life. To achieve this, he exaggerates in his portrayals, becomes mean, flattering and provocative. He gets great joy and satisfaction from his work.

The increasing digitization has increasingly influenced his artistic work. The precision with which one can work in digital painting can hardly be achieved even with the finest brush. His ideas, surreal, photorealistic and at the same time accurate in detail, he has succeeded better and better with the digital tools. Pieter Bruegel (the elder) and Hieronymus Bosch, whose work he admires, were seminal for his own imagery. His works contain stories that he tells the viewer with pictorial means. His themes are nature and its human-induced injuries, as well as upheavals in politics. His motivation is to unite the variety of life, good and evil, heaven and hell together in one picture. As a counterpoint to this, Gero Paul also creates colourful, positive landscape, nature and flower images. He also dedicates himself to current affairs with great bitingness. He is currently working on a three-part picture story that includes the topic of Corona and its consequences.