Original artwork description:

This painting is inspired by the beautiful song “Spirit” by the Waterboys. The lyrics are very powerful and mean so much to me. The contrast in this artwork between dark and light is spiritual, the light always finds its way.

SPIRIT
Man gets tired
Spirit don't
Man surrenders
Spirit won't
Man crawls
Spirit flies
Spirit lives when man dies
Man seems
Spirit is
Man dreams
The spirit lives
Man is tethered
Spirit is free
What spirit is man can be

Song by The Waterboys, Released 1985
Songwriter M. Scott


By building up many layers of texture and colour, using brushes and palette knives, Angelika creates a rich surface and vibrant relationships between random shapes and deliberate markings in her work. She also uses charcoal and oil pastels to heighten the impressions and create depth and movement in her paintings. The drips in Angelika’s work illustrate the endless cycle of growth and decay in organic structures, which again is a reflection of life itself.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint, watercolour, oil pastels and texture on canvas

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