ABOUT Janina Gude, an artist who grew up in Konstanz, has been living and working in Hamburg for over ten years. The central theme of her work to date is the search for her personal sense of home.

The content of her work has its origins in her hometown of Konstanz; she draws her emotional strength from nature, from the mountain and lake landscapes that she has absorbed with a sensitive gaze. In search of inspiration, she repeatedly returns to the landscape of her childhood on Lake Constance to find her motifs. Her painting is not about the mere representation of these natural landscapes. Rather, she seeks a feeling that can be transferred into her paintings and revealed to the viewer. Some of the works are created directly in nature as studies on paper and later serve as the basis for further, larger studio works. Her inner connection to nature always serves as a guide—to the peace and warmth that these landscapes hold, as well as to the changing seasons, which are accompanied by a constant change of colors and light. These seasonal moods shape her perception and flow directly into her work.

The resulting works are partly abstract rhythms of nature, modern and expressively interpreted landscapes that find their own harmony in color and surface textures. The fields of color within the paintings interact with each other and create a specific tone that can also be experienced on an emotional level. The diverse materiality of the media also plays a central role: it ranges from oil painting on cotton and canvas fabrics to soft pastels and ceramics.