Andrea Krauß - Blown Away *no reserve*

BLOWN AWAY

Original painting – acrylic on canvas, image size 70 × 70 cm

Shipped rolled without frame

Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 70 cm, with a surrounding, very precisely executed white border of about 5 cm.

The precise border opens two presentation options: framing behind glass in a frame size of about 80 × 80 cm or stretching on a suitable gallery frame in the 70 × 70 cm format.

Work data

* Title: Blown away
* Artistic execution: Contemporary original painting
* Technique: Acrylic painting on canvas
* Dimensions: 70 × 70 cm, unframed
* Special feature: About 5 cm wide white border around the motif
* Presentation: Option to stretch on a stretch frame (70x70 cm9) or to frame directly behind glass (80x80 cm)
* Signed and numbered on the back
* Shipping rolled, professionally packed in air cushion film
* Certificate of authenticity included

A game of movement, lightness, and expressive color: Blown Away combines the grace of a floral landscape with the free gesture of abstract painting. Luminous pink and magenta tones seem to hover over the image surface, detach from their botanical Vorlage and recall petals caught and carried by the wind. At the same time, the title points to the feeling of being completely overwhelmed by a moment, a mood, or a beauty.

The strong, partly relief-like color applications set vivid accents against a layered background of gray, white, and delicate green nuances. Dark, dynamically guided lines form the stems and create a tense contrast to the seemingly floating floral fragments. The painterly blurred areas give the background atmospheric depth, while the open composition oscillates between movement and calm, chance and deliberate color gesture.

Stylistically, the work moves in the tension between gestural abstraction, abstract expressionism, and contemporary floral painting. The aim is not a faithful rendering of individual plants, but the free translation of their forms into color, structure, and movement. The blossoms remain recognizable motifs, yet dissolve into expressive color traces. Thus, a modern interpretation of the classic floral painting emerges, where atmosphere and painterly expression are more important than botanical accuracy.

Blown Away leaves room for different associations: a wind-swept garden, fleeting moments of nature, or the feeling of being carried away by something beautiful.

With its expressive colorfulness, free composition, and the enticing interplay between floral allusions and abstraction, the work adds a distinctive accent to modern living and working spaces.

Andrea Krauß is among the prominent figures of contemporary German painting.
The recipient of the AOK Nordost Art Prize (Berlin/Brandenburg) and former fellow of the renowned Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop completed her studies at the Braunschweig University of Art. For many years she has consistently devoted herself to painting and now lives and works in her Berlin-based studio.

At the center of her artistic work is the connection between memory, atmosphere, and landscape. Starting from personal impressions, Andrea Krauß develops pictorial worlds that go beyond the individual and touch universal experiences of nature, space, and transience. Recurring motifs include birches and other elements of nature, whose quiet presence merges with traces of human shaping and memory.

Andrea Krauß's works have been shown in galleries, museums, and renowned exhibitions and are now part of numerous private collections. Her works impress with their poetic power, atmospheric density, and the sensitive combination of nature observation and personal memory.