My name is Volker W. Hamann, I grew up and live in the Filder region and have been a freelance artist since 1993. Since then I have been working in my own studio. After various artistic self-experiments in my youth, my artistic career started with an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor. At the same time, I had also discovered photography for myself, for which I had set up my own photo studio.
After completing my apprenticeship with distinction, I dealt with many different materials, which I used for my work and also experimented a lot. Initially, mainly wooden sculptures should be created with a chainsaw.
After I had worked as a wood sculptor for many years and working with chainsaws had become a matter of course for me, the following thought came to me after a work stay in Australia: take a thick sheet of Plexiglas and cut your sketches deep into this sheet with a chainsaw. In such a way that these incisions are three-dimensionally directed forwards when viewed from the other side of the plate.
I then "painted" these plexiglass panels with paints I created myself, which I had been experimenting with on wood for over 10 years. The pigments that I use to produce the colors have the property that depending on the viewing angle, location and light, the color sometimes changes extremely.
