Meet this year's exhibiting artists

Oliver Rennert

I try to capture moments to their fullest, to freeze time and then to peruse every tiny bit that makes up that moment's significance for me. That doesn't always involve painstaking detail - some moments are so significant precisely because of their fleeting nature. Therefore my paintings don't necessarily have to always be in the same style, it is how the moment strikes me that drives which technique, style or medium best suits it. Although I do paint mainly naturalistic paintings, it doesn't even have to be naturalism all the time. The only guiding principle is that I try to do the experienced moment justice as best as I can, and that the resultant painting evokes the same sort of emotion in me that the actual moment did. It feels a bit like setting the "magic eye" on old pre-transistor radio sets. There, the fluoro-green eye wobbled widely when the station knob was turned. When the green line narrowed into precise focus the desired station was best received; this analogy may perhaps describe best my feelings when I have come up with a good painting. In the end, it's all about humility before all that's out there, and gratitude for having a chance to portray it.

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