Susanna Welebny
Painter
Bio
“I grew up in Austria, in a very creative family. I played music and sang with my mother at an early age and accompanied her on the piano with my flute. Even as small children, we built and painted furniture with our father, and our walls were also painted in the style of Kandinsky. Even as a girl, I listened to my parents' records, sang along, danced along – Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald... I have felt like an artist since I was a child and I am always active, as a singer, writer, painter, in interior design, sewing, actress, musician, dancer.
I have just been the owner of a goldsmith's shop for 7 years, together with my business partner. During this time, I also designed customer orders and implemented them under my guidance. Pictures painted by me, drawings, self-sewn, painted tops as well as my own jewelry art in the form of small sculptures, as well as texts that are created again and again and my own songs are on the program.
I am currently creating sculptures that dance or float on mineral stones but can also be worn as jewelry. I also paint large-format paintings in acrylic, as well as oil crayons. I mainly paint faces that look directly into your eyes and soul, and I also paint bodies in motion, dancing.
I love to paint in large format. I'm looking for faces that speak to me emotionally. During the painting process of a person, there is a magical moment when the painting begins to come to life. The completion of the pictures is a long-term process, as it is important to me to be very detailed. Overall, it is important to me to trigger beautiful, positive feelings with my art. And I feel that myself while the pictures are being created. While painting the face it acquires its own expression and colors as well as its own character.”