Thomas Geyer "The Silent Pulse" Vernissage

In the organizer's words:

If Thomas Geyer could preserve the moment of beauty and wonder in a jam jar, he would. Instead, he rummages through his memories of aesthetic glances and moments of longing and transforms them into atmospheric paintings.
As a symbiosis between subjective perception and artistic correction, Geyer himself is the benchmark, the interface between real experience and momentary sensation. On his excursions into nature, he settles where he feels most comfortable. This is usually at harmonious meeting points of human life and scenic wilderness, which reflect Geyer's personal living space between city and countryside: an overgrown backyard, a swimming lake with an access ladder, pointed houses jutting out from behind dunes.
With natural colors such as midnight blue, forest green and evening red-pink that glow from within, the artist focuses all his attention on the narrative potential that he has discovered for himself at this moment. Combined with matt nuances and light reflections, this results in a seemingly random play of shadows, which are sometimes reflected in the blue-green lake water, sometimes settle as moonlight shimmer on the white sandy beach.
When Thomas Geyer longs to return to these balmy summer evenings, sea breezes or springtime feelings in his studio, he brings out the preserved impressions, the light, the smells and sounds and spreads them out on the canvases. Light spot by light spot, canopy by canopy, he digs back into their narrative atmospheres and begins to unfold their stories anew. In his descriptions, he reveals just enough to make us feel at home as guests in his scenes - and yet leaves room for individual secrets. In this way, the artist not only grants us access to his hideaways, but also opens them up as backdrops in which our own memories can take place.
It is the intensity of the moment, the absolute beauty and emotion that made Geyer a painter. But there is also a seriousness in the artist's longing, an impending doom that accompanies us all - the loss of a living space of which we ourselves are a part. And it is important to feel the gaps, says Thomas Geyer. Without them, there would be no desire, no sense of transience, no appreciation for the wonder, for all the fleeting things that he wants to preserve as a painter.
And when the artist sets out again from his studio to be found by his motifs with a wandering eye, he always has a jam jar with him so that he can share his intense experience with us later.