Vanessa Onuk was born and grew up in and around Frankfurt am Main. While she was fortunate throughout her entire childhood to grow up with an artist as an uncle and to be supported in this area at school, her 
professional path initially took her into medicine. In 2022, she began to take her painting to a professional level. While she had a clear vision from the start regarding the technique of her pictures - using acrylic paint at different levels of wetness to achieve layers in different textures and strong color gradients and bleeding colors - the question of how to achieve this goal arose early on.  So, she began to follow her inner scientist and experimented with different canvas substrates to achieve the desired result. Since then, she has worked almost exclusively on 
pure, unprimed linen. This allows for the perfect mix of bleeding colors, random gradients and precise applications. Individual differences can always be achieved through different thicknesses, resulting in a unique vintage finish. My abstract landscapes are intended to capture a moment in which we want to linger because the sight, the light, the color or the silhouette of an environment captivates us and we want to absorb it.

My own observation of my works is not about subtleties and details, but rather I reduce them to shapes, colors and feelings. The details arise from previous experiences and memories of the viewer themselves; our minds are always looking for associations and connections with what we have already experienced, so that looking at the images offers a - sometimes - unique experience for the viewer. The intuition of my pictures is to give the viewer a framework, the emotions and memories with which the viewer associates them arise individually.