SKREINIG Edy born on the 21st. of February, 1970 in Natal, RN (Brazil)
This artist is influenced by the art of impressionism and was taught in São Paulo by the well known teacher and painter Elza Martins whose work of art are well spread and acknowledged world wide, various several projects of self-improvement and many experiments.
The painter was also influenced by the late Bob Ross and considers herself a Ross’s follower, as she talks about him: “someone who had much to give and whose lifetime was unfortunately too short for us pupils, but whose purpose was nevertheless comprehended.”
Skreinig has been painting actively since 1994 but has been in contact with different types of art since her young age, writing poetry and common opinion texts for newspaper and magazines. She has participated actively in several projects and poetical anthologies in Brazil since the age of twelve years old and her painting works have been sold to art enthusiasts all over the world in private or public expositions. Some of her written works and visions were also contributed to children’s magazines in the United States as a free lance writer in the years of her early motherhood. A busy working-mother and English teacher she lives now in Austria with her husband and four children where she paints as in “a labor”, allowing her emotions to flow in spaces of every few months when the fascination of her work is then “born” in a “each = one of a kind project” - completely unexpected and new.
With a deep interest in the mystic and profound effect of the paintings as a way of relaxation and meditation, she describes that
“A painting should not only be seen but felt…
Something that you can be away from and you will miss it, but whenever it is around serves a good purpose like a friend…
Something that shouldn’t be expensive that you feel indebted to it and forced to hang it on the wall but rather something attainable, like a love. It should not become an asset but a way of communication.
Something you adjust to as it attracts itself to you: you may not have a place for it in your house but you will feel like making one to bring it into your life.
I paint with patience and enthusiasm. If you have a painting of mine at your house you have the best I can give in expression of care and dedication. Energy shall shine through the images I have created and will live on and on.
My paintings are not the work of an artist. They are the work of an idealist! I don’t give it more time than I have to, not to impress on it anguish or lack of patience. I don’t work with materials that tend to slow the process of creation, I let the idea flow but if too many of them (ideas) do come to mind I stop rather quickly, as soon as the original idea is resolved – the expression has been given.
While working on the chosen theme, turning it to all possible directions; exploring it;
modifying it; inspiring oneself in it and with it, to reconstruct it and to filter its sensations: the picture will then seem far but visible, it will reappear after various mutations and metamorphoses which will push it further after one has patiently elaborated, nourished, distorted, reformed, supported and envisioned it, to, at last, reveal it – each work is not made only as a product of your hands but as your continuation, your feelings made in expression, your past, your future, your child, a theme completed: The purpose achieved.”
I love painting and I love writing... But a painting speaks for itself, and it is a language that all of the world speaks!
Lieboch, Austria, January, 2012