The most frequently heard comments from people who are faced with any of Heiko and Selina Niedermeyer’s art collections are, “All the pieces look so different. Are they painted by the same artists?” and “Are you sure that they both paint on the same canvas? The paintings look like only one artist has worked on them.”
That is one singular factor that stands out in the work of this husband and wife team. It is the seamless fusion of masterful skills and creative ideas from two very distinct individuals, resulting in a vast spectrum of abstract and concrete formal expression that is rare. As Vicki Ang, gallery director from the prestigious Wetterling Teo Gallery in Singapore enthused, “The works are brilliant.”
“What amazes and delights us is the harmony that results from the deep and open surrender to the creative ideas and styles that we individually bring to the work as we paint alongside each other. The trust and admiration we feel for each other allows us to be inspired by the other.”
Their paintings reflect a harmonious creative merging and collaboration of a couple who come from different backgrounds, culture, nationality as well as gender. Solution, not compromise, in coming to a result is expressed as they both create fully and freely on each piece without limiting the other. As a result, their presence is felt and exists everywhere on their visuals.
"The inner pictures in our shared memories from our exciting travel adventures as well as the daily and nightly events in our life together are often seeds for a new painting. We are inspired by Real Life itself, all of its elements and facets...from cities to mountains, forests and the ocean as well as the invisible and the imaginary worlds. The expression and Union of the Male and Female Principles in Life is a frequent inspiration for us in many of our pieces. Pages from a book, read aloud in bed after a night of painting, at 5.30am, gripped us with so much passion and emotion that we had to leap out of bed to compose the vivid visuals evoked onto a new canvas."
Scientific analogies can be aptly drawn to describe the synergy between this artistic duo.
Like the two strands of a DNA, in complementary pairing, they each bond readily to the other so that the identity of each strand complements the strength of the other in it’s own individuation and melts as a double helix, synthesizing a new form from the template of One That Are Two That Are One.
This explosive partnership of the couple on canvas can be likened to a nuclear fusion.
A nuclear fusion happens when 2 hydrogen atoms combine to form a larger helium atom.
In the process, an enormous amount of heat energy is given off. A typical example of nuclear fusion is the sun.
This tremendous excess of creative energy, which is always released through Heiko and Selina’s fusion, extends the sum of both which forms a powerful new element that flows into each of their paintings.
Their magnificent paintings emanate an essence and a presence which is both visible as well as tangible.
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