Sonja Wagner

• was born in 1954 in Goeppingen, Germany. She first painted in the early seventies.
• Her inspiration partly came from her extended world travels. From 1974 until 1979 she studied art at the Alanus University in Bonn-Alfter. After studying in Crete for six months, she continued her art studies with Paul Pollock in Freiburg
• After studying in Crete for six months, she continued her art studies with Paul Pollock in Freiburg. Since 1983 she has been working as a freelance artist, teaching at her own art school in Freiburg and organising painting courses in Bali, Crete, Italy, Mallorca, Provence and Africa.
• Since 1992 she has worked in Crete twice a year, in 1993 she worked in Bali for two months and in Senegal. Her paintings are imbued with the quest for core values.

T.Wortmann on the occasion of the exhibition gallery Schlossberg 2003

Sonja Wagners pictures in acrylic, tempera and mixing techniques were developed on her expanded voyages round the world after Southeast Asia, Africa and the mediterranen area.

The artist born in South Germany transfers her sensations gained through contact with diverse nativ peoples of this earth into a dialogue between sounds of colours and symbolism. Beside high-contrast she sets calm colour surfaces, loaded with symbolism..it produces a meditative as well as communicative atmosphere. Organic and abstract forms stand in the direct dialogue to each other. The luminosity of the colorus and the depth of symbolisms, refer to a strong solidarity with the roots of archaic seeming cultures, which centers their holistic meaning of life. The result of their long-time intense dispute with those valueconceptions have paintings with unusually high expressiveness to the consequence, which remind us just in the present datareduced reality to our substantialness existence .