Stefanie Schulte

Stefanie grew up in Germany and studied Fine Art in Spain, in Barcelona and Madrid, where she graduated at Complutense University. In 2005 she completed a PhD in Fine Art which was awarded the distinction “Summa Cum Laude”.
Her work, initially centred in the medium of sculpting, has been exhibited in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and received the “Kunstförderpreis” Award in her home town.
After the birth of her children, she paused her career in order to fully focus on the young family.
The family's arrival in Australia in 2015 has been a new beginning for her artistic work, which is now centred in the medium of painting— satisfying the hunger for colour that had built up during the years of sculpting!
Her paintings are constructions in two dimensions. They are built up by many layers of colour that can be perceived at the edges of a colour field or simply through the depth of a shade.
She both explores the interactions between different shades of colour and also the partition of the two dimensional space by shifting and moving the fields of colour like tectonic plates until the final piece of the puzzle is found.
All brush strokes are placed “free hand” to create a warmer and more organic feeling than the “hard-edge” of geometric abstraction.