Interview of Gabriele Napierata: a
writer, poet, painter, artist and illustrator.
Interviewed
by Author Roy Murry
Her current novel is called: Des hare pepper or
Elisha's looking for the big chicken. Here is the link to my website: www.gabriele-napierata.de
Can you tell me a little about yourself?
I was born in the
time of the winter storms, before the great flood in 1962 in Hamburg Germany /
Kiel, in the sign of Aquarius. Since the age of four draw, and paint I still in
school writing and poetry came about. It has always been my desire to speak in
photos and paint with words. I wanted the people while looking at my pictures,
feel emotions and that what is seen long remain in their memory, they may also
sustain busy - food for thought.
Live
creativity is a fundamental pillar of my life - no matter in what form, whether
it is the images out of my head that are placed on paper or other support
materials or thoughts are that form into words and as a poem, or even, as
obtain novel shape.
Do you remember the first painting you have done?
I painted my first
picture as a child. That does not count, but it was the beginning of my
vocation. The image which sprang from my own imagination, painted with oil paint
on a support material, was a clown with a violin in his hand. I sold it because
the paint was not yet dry.
Have you been
inspired by someone or something?
My grandmother had
a print by Albrecht Dürer, the "Dürrerhasen". The fine art by this
artist attracted me. But I was actually inspired by my parents. We had small
notepads with graph paper, on the paper I was allowed to paint. If my mother
painted a poodle (it was the 60s (our dog, Susi was a relic of the 50s, which
itself into the next decade was able to save and served as a template) or a
woman's head - even the possessed curls, my father, garages or houses drew, I
was happy.
What do you think
about it, if they make a painting?
Ideas come to me in
many different ways.
Either
shoots me a creative idea through my head that I want to capture either as an
image or as a poem, novel, on paper, that happens when I let my thoughts drift
or dreaming. I mostly paper and pen lying next to my bed or there is already
written excitation, and then this will be implemented pictorially. Or have I
done written stories or poems that need to be illustrated.
Can say something
about my art?
I have developed my
own style, but feel obliged figurative art, experimenting with the techniques,
try my own style to continuously improve. Motion and color are important to me,
or when black-and-white drawings, the shades, but in all cases, everything
should appear vivid as if taken from the midst of movement and immersed in my
fantasy world.
What
art corresponds to your style?
I do not know. I'm
trying to own statement to convey through my paintings: Paul Klee, ink drawings
Gustave Doré perhaps. I also like the old outline drawings from the
Struwwelpeter. Important work means to me are the pastels, pencil and ink.
What
are you working at the moment?
Indeed, it is now
just been working on a new project. In autumn a new work by me appears. It is
the first volume of two novels by me. The work will be presented at the
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 in Frankfurt and has the name "dragon crystal and
primrose, Volume 1, subtitled" "mist in the wind". Volume 2 has
received the subtitle "Wind in the Mist". The plant is in the range
of imagination. More poems and illustrations will be published on Facebook and
can be found on my website.
