ACREOLA · Petra & Michael

ACREOLA · Petra & Michael

Two painters, one home, thirteen rooms. All paintings are originals looking for a wall.

PetraMichael

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I do not paint what is visible, but what can be felt.

Petra

PetraPaints in acrylic and calls it Soul Painting. The paintings remain untitled, so that the viewer's mind stays free.

MichaelPaints in oil and gives every painting a title. His paintings hang here in four chapters: Calm, Strength, Light and Inner World.

Michael's hand with a brush and a gold ring adds red paint to the edge of the bull in the painting Der Wille.
Michael's hand at work on “Der Wille”.

From the studio

A wooden easel on a terrace in front of a lemon tree, holding an oil painting of yellow fruit among green leaves above a stone wall.
A new painting on the easel, in the garden under the lemon tree.
A painter's palette full of oil paint on a red table, brushes in a jar beside it, four narrow panels in blue, green, yellow and red behind.
Michael's palette, with Die vier Temperamente behind it.

Petra · 7 paintings

Soul Painting

What words cannot tell. These are inner landscapes.

My paintings are an expression of my inner world. They grow out of feelings, thoughts and moments for which there are sometimes no words.

I paint intuitively and without a fixed plan. Layer by layer, whatever wants to appear in that moment takes shape. Sometimes it surprises even me.

Colour is my language. Strong reds, oranges and violets meet light, quiet surfaces. I am fascinated by the play of opposites: chaos and harmony, movement and stillness, strength and lightness.

I do not want to impose a story. Perhaps someone will recognise a landscape, a memory, or simply a colour that moves them.

For me, painting means making the invisible visible.

Petra

Michael

Michael paints between the figurative and the abstract. His paintings revolve around thoughts, movement, inner order, the four temperaments and human nature.

He is drawn to what lies behind the immediately visible. One starting point is Rudolf Steiner's idea of the thought content of the world: whoever perceives consciously discovers a calm and strength of their own in things. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo have also shaped his eye.

He has played the guitar since the age of eight. For him, painting and music are two forms of the same passion: bringing something inward out into the world.

His paintings do not prescribe a way of seeing. They invite you to pause, to look more closely and to let your own thoughts arise.

Sometimes the essential begins exactly where the eye goes beyond the visible.

Michael · Chapter one · 6 paintings

Calm

So that you can feel the stillness of midday.

Michael's painting Der Hibiskus (The Hibiscus), oil on canvas, 140 by 100 centimetres.

Der Hibiskus

Michael · Oil on canvas · 140 × 100 cm

Absolute calm. Deliberately minimal, so that you can feel the stillness of midday. The door stands slightly ajar. That is the invitation.

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Michael · Chapter two · 3 paintings

Strength

Perfectly calm and steadfast.

Michael's painting Der Wille (The Will), oil on canvas, 100 by 140 centimetres.

Der Wille

Michael · Oil on canvas · 100 × 140 cm

The red ground stands for the choleric temperament. The bull, perfectly calm and steadfast, stands for the will.

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Michael's painting Seelenzustände (States of the Soul), oil on canvas, 80 by 100 centimetres.

Seelenzustände

Michael · Oil on canvas · 80 × 100 cm

Inspired by Alexander Scriabin's Third Piano Sonata.

Andante from Sonata No. 3, Op. 23 by Alexander Scriabin, played by Eric Xi Xin Liang. Excerpt, shortened. Source IMSLP · CC BY 4.0

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Michael's work Die vier Temperamente (The Four Temperaments), four narrow panels in red, yellow, green and blue on the wall of a villa.

Michael · Oil on aluminium · four panels, each 20 × 115 cm

Die vier Temperamente

Four panels, one work.

Red for the choleric, yellow for the sanguine, green for the phlegmatic, blue for the melancholic. The classical colours of the four temperaments.

Yet look closely and you will find no pure colours. Every temperament holds several aspects within it.

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Michael · Chapter three · 3 paintings

Light

It is the beauty that surrounds us.

Michael's painting Die Erleuchtung (Enlightenment), oil on canvas, 100 by 120 centimetres.

Die Erleuchtung

Michael · Oil on canvas · 100 × 120 cm

“In the state of enlightenment there are no longer objects I have to judge, only states that are as they are.”

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Michael's painting Sonnenuntergang (Sunset), oil on canvas, 120 by 100 centimetres.

Sonnenuntergang

Michael · Oil on canvas · 120 × 100 cm

It is the beauty that surrounds us.

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Michael · Chapter four · 5 paintings

Inner World

Everything exists within something greater.

Michael's painting Wie innen, so außen (As Within, So Without), oil on canvas, 80 by 100 centimetres.

Wie innen, so außen

Michael · Oil on canvas · 80 × 100 cm

Everything exists within something greater and at the same time contains the smaller.

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A finca with an empty canvas on the stone wall. The canvas reads: Your painting doesn't exist yet.

Commissions

Michael will paint it.

Some paintings begin with a wall.

For a place, a memory, a room that has not yet found its painting. Oil on canvas, one of a kind. It begins with a conversation.

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What you see here is a selection.

Every painting is an original and exists only once. Tell us which one stays with you. We will give you its size and price and are happy to show you more works.

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