Annette von der Bey

Annette von der Bey expresses with minuscule brush strokes, finest details, and grand pictural constellations, what would take her a lifetime to express with words. Here this text could talk about healing, breaking from rigid structures, a return to nature. It could talk about the creation of the piece, about thought processes and career paths. It could talk about context, the influence of digital media, the rise of AI, the threat of a future where nature in its green glory and all its detail has become so rare it can only be found in art.
However, a text like this could also encourage to look, really look, even closer, and to feel all the things that can’t be put into words. Annette von der Bey’s work is a continuous text that not only breaks free from language and words, but furthermore would be restricted, reduced even, by them. No words (not even these) can capture the essence of her art and her own self better than her brush does. That is her nature.

Clara von der Bey