Travel is important to me. I enjoy so much the anticipation, the journey and arrival at new places. It’s all part of an enriching and revitalising process, a re-charge of the batteries, where the mind and memory are bombarded with images, smells and sounds that add to the encyclopedia of experience. All this gradually filters through to my work.

I’ve been very fortunate. Being a teacher gave me the opportunity to organise student visits to many parts of Europe and on one very special occasion I was involved in an exchange programme with a school in Australia. Of course, to reach Australia one must take the chance to see other countries and so I went to America, Fiji, New Zealand and Singapore.This gave me the chance to see the world and its culture from a different perspective.This journey was a life-changing experience.

I am a painter of landscape. At times I will record simply for the enjoyment of being in a particular place and at other times I will search more deeply for the marks that both man and nature have made. It is through this search that I find the patterns, colours, textures and forms that are the roots of my work .........

Christa speaks English ......... that's good ......... photographs and drawings during a visit to a woollen mill at Euskirchen ......... strange atmosphere, like the Marie Celeste with everything just left as it was ......... boxes of threads, bobbins and colour .......... blue .......... uniform blue .......... process .......... teasing the threads ......... lines inspired by the patterns of garments .......... how can you identify different lines? .......... numbers .......... dots and dashes ..........Morse Code .......... secret messages .......... spirit of forgiveness and friendship .......... the threads come together .......... blue thread triptych.


Stuart Green
Details from: Blue Thread Triptych
Acrylic and emulsion on canvas. 2005


Christa Rolenc
Kopfsteinplaster
Balsa auf Plasterstein. 2004

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