Blue Mountains Artists Connection: Member Profile

Ulla Heckel

PRINZ ORLOFSKY

Ulla began painting in New York City after moving there from Germany 30 odd years ago. In the 1980s she studied at the New York Art Students League, where her teacher, William Scharf, a former studio assistant and friend of Mark Rothko, guided her from plastic paints to oil abstractions and collage/assemblages. In 1992 she was part of a group show with the theme New York at Cornell Medical Center Library in NYC where her painting Manhattan Tableau was acquired.

Upon settling in Australia in 2002 she joined the Blackheath Art Society and paints frequently in their studio space with the Fauvian Group. In order to find new forms and textures and an emotive measure for her palette, she thoroughly acquainted herself with the modern indigenous painting culture as stimulus and driving force as well as a colour barometer. Oils are her preferred painting medium. Recently, she completed a harlequinade series based on 18th century playing cards as a form of modern portraiture.

Contact details:
Mobile: 0425 226 875
Email: jennulla@aapt.net.au
Gallery: www.event-horizon-gallery.com/artists

THE FALLEN TREE

THEY FELL INTO THE SUN

TIMID PLAINS - TWISTED GRACE

LUNA PARK