Paintings that remember rather than depict.
Oil paintings made from memory and inner vision — landscapes, mountains, and the sea, by an artist who spent a lifetime behind the camera.
On a life spent framing light, and painting from memory.
My artistic path is shaped by decades of work as a cinematographer — for advertising films, cinema and television productions, and documentaries.
That work carried me across nearly every continent: through Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa. Places, cultures and encounters that lastingly formed my inner archive of images.
I have painted since the 1980s. The pictures arise without any external model. They are fed by memory, by experience, and by inner vision.
My love of nature, spiritual questions, and formative encounters — with the shamanism of South America, impressions from Hollywood, meetings with the Dalai Lama, and the sacred places of Christianity — flow into the work in many layers.
A few examples of my work in film.
For questions about the work, or to inquire about a painting, write directly.
riess.cam@aon.at