DVAA Member since 2024

Mirjam Seeger

WEBSITE: mirjamseeger.com

About:

A painter of both glass and canvas, Mirjam has fused the two painting techniques in all her work.
She was a glass painter for Willet Studio in Philadelphia for 20 years, painting stained glass windows for buildings all over the US. Mirjam left glass painting to dedicate herself exclusively to oil painting.

Being Swiss, she spends considerable time in Switzerland, her country of origin. She derives much of her inspiration for her paintings from the mountains of the Engadin where she has her second home.

Lately her travels to Bolivia, Chile and Death Valley have sparked her fascination with deserts and desert light, which will be the subject matter of her future work.

Artist Statement:

Crumbling leaves in the woods, ancient rocks in the mountains or by the sea, landscapes which took millions of years to form; all these are awe-inspiring witnesses to the passage of time.

In my second home in the Swiss alpine region of the Engadin, I am repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of stone, water, clouds, snow and ice. In sometimes extreme temperatures and under aggressively blue or dark skies I am out with my camera trying to catch these moments in time. As the glaciers melt, they reveal the past in the form of rocks which had been covered by ice for thousands of years and now are witnesses of an ancient past. In Bolivia the Uyuni salt flats took 45'000 years to form today's dazzling white terrain and in Chile the windswept desert mountain ranges and volcanoes have developed into ghostly shapes which makes them look unreal.

The earth's history manifests itself wherever we are on the planet and we can only look on in helpless fascination.

All this coming and going, the ephemeral in natural processes over which we humans have no power is the subject of my paintings. They provide the me with the endless desire to capture them in paint!