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Sigrid MÜller


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Born in 1962 in Germany, where she trained and worked as a graphic designer, Sigrid MÜller moved to Swansea in 1996, since when she has been working as a full-time professional artist.

In that relatively short space of time, Sigrid has made quite an impression with her lyrical, erotic and very beautiful paintings of flowers. Meticulously crafted, using very fine pencil crayon over a watercolour wash, these works go way beyond simple botanical illustration. These are real paintings, with an atmosphere and life of their own. Sigrid herself describes them as portraits of flowers, like humans, each with their own characteristics - some shy, some extrovert, some tender, some vaguely menacing.

 

Collections include The National Museum of Wales and The National Botanic Garden of Wales.

 


 

Yn ôl

 

Wedi'i geni yn yr Almaen yn 1962, ble bu'n astudio a gweithio fel cynllunydd graffigol, symudodd Sigrid MÜller i Abertawe yn 1996 a gweithio fel artist proffesiynol yn llawn amser.

 

Ers hynny, mae Sigrid wedi gwneud dylanwad mawr gyda'i pheintiadau prydferth, ambell waith yn erotic, o flodau. Gyda'i dull manwl a'i defnydd o greon dros ddyfrlliw, mae gwaith Sigrid yn fwy nag astudiaethau botaneg, ond yn hytrach yn beintiadau go iawn, gyda bywyd a naws eu hunain. Disgrifia Sigrid hwy fel portreadau o flodau, yn union fel portreadau dynol, gyda cymeriad unigol i bob blodyn- ambell un yn allblyg, arall yn swil, rhai'n dyner ac eraill yn gyfrwys.

 

Mae'i gwaith yn ran o gasgliadau yr Amgueddfa Genedlaethol a Gerddi Botaneg Cymru.

 


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