Photo: Flo Klein
Artist Statement
In the Light of the Moment:
Colors That Tell Stories
My art grows out of the many moments that stir something within me. It might be the way light transforms a landscape, an encounter, a detail in nature, or a memory. Often, it is the small, fleeting moments that touch me and eventually find their way into a painting.
I am not interested in simply reproducing what I see. I want to capture what I experience in that moment – light, movement, stillness, strength, change – and translate it into my own visual language.
Color plays a central role in my work. Intense colors, luminous accents, metallic effects, textures, and the interplay of light and shadow characterize many of my paintings. Figurative elements merge with freer, abstract forms. I work intuitively and experimentally, using brushes, palette knives, and my hands, allowing a painting to change as it develops and sometimes take a different direction than I originally imagined.
With my current series “Klang in Farbe” (“Sound in Color”), music became a new source of inspiration in 2026. For the first time, I consciously allow sounds and musical moods to guide me while I paint, exploring how what I hear can be translated into color, form, and movement. This has opened up a new field for me, expanding my previous work while bringing many of its elements together.
My paintings are not meant to explain everything. I want them to remain open, giving each person the freedom to discover something of their own – perhaps a memory, a feeling, or simply a moment that invites them to look a little longer.
“I wish for a world where art awakens joy, connects people, and encourages us to discover something new – and to recognize the extraordinary in the everyday.”
The Path to My Own Visual Language
From an early age, Cornelia Seuss developed a keen eye for the world around her. Together with her father, she discovered nature through photography and learned to notice light, colors, and small details. These early experiences continue to shape the way she sees the world and approaches her art today.
Creativity has been a natural part of her life for many years – throughout family life, her professional career, and many different stages of her life. In painting, she eventually found a form of expression that gave her the freedom to bring together what she sees, experiences, and feels.
An important step in her artistic development was joining a group of artists who met regularly to paint together. Painting in the Dachauer Moos in particular – with its distinctive landscape, changing light, and the experience of working together in nature – opened up new possibilities and encouraged her to continue developing her own artistic path.
Over time, Cornelia Seuss developed her own distinctive visual language. She discovered different techniques and materials and began interpreting figurative subjects with greater freedom. Experimentation became an important part of her artistic journey, continually opening up new possibilities for expression.
In 2026, the series “Klang in Farbe” marked the beginning of a new chapter in her work. For the first time, music itself became the starting point for her paintings. During a live painting performance at St. Jakob Church in Dachau, a work was created in front of an audience through the interplay of music, space, and painting. The experience of spontaneously translating sound into color and movement became the starting point for further exploration of this new artistic approach.
Cornelia Seuss lives and works in Dachau. She sees her artistic development not as a completed journey, but as an ongoing process of discovery – driven by the joy of experimentation, close observation, and an openness to what can emerge from a single moment.
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