Hans Wendland

I was born in Paris, which makes me French. I grew
up in a family of painters, sculptors and art mer-
chants. In France and Italy, I studied under the art-
ists Gérard Ambroselli and Antonietta Tuti where I
received strong influences in impressionism and
abstractionism.
I was educated in Italy, France, England and finally
in the United States where I lived for over twenty
years. I have shown my work in the United States,
South America and Europe. For the past fifteen
years I have lived parallel lives, one focused on
high-tech and the othe...

I was born in Paris, which makes me French. I grew
up in a family of painters, sculptors and art mer-
chants. In France and Italy, I studied under the art-
ists Gérard Ambroselli and Antonietta Tuti where I
received strong influences in impressionism and
abstractionism.
I was educated in Italy, France, England and finally
in the United States where I lived for over twenty
years. I have shown my work in the United States,
South America and Europe. For the past fifteen
years I have lived parallel lives, one focused on
high-tech and the other focused on art, and until
very recently never mixing the two. In this world of
right-brain and left-brain I have found the stimulus
for creating my paintings.
My work borders representational and non-
objective art. All of my work is based on abstract
shapes and emotions I see and feel. Nature is my
biggest driver. As an expressionist, my objective is
to take elements from nature, abstract them, and
treat them by means of emotive color, texture and
shapes, driving the viewer to react to my work per-
sonally.
Over the years I have developed a technique where
I paint with both oil and water-based colors on the
same canvas, focusing on the ability to mix and
work with the colors simultaneously, completely in
the wet. I create emotion with a lot of depth and
many layers of material on top of each other, add-
ing pencil, crayon, oil pastels as well as dirt, leaves
and "stuff" that allow me to create truly unique
pieces of art.