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Baroque Passion

Jason Engelbart

Hamburg, Germany

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BIOGRAPHY

Jason Engelbart, born in 1960, completed his studies from 1980 to 1984 at the ALSTERDAMM Art & Design Academy - SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS in Hamburg, Germany. During his studies, he was a student in Professor Lothar Walter's master class and earned his degree in art and design. After his graduation he has worked primarily as a Creative Director in design studios. 1989 he founded his own design agency DIE BOTSCHAFT, Hamburg I Berlin. At the end of 2009, Engelbart handed over the agency to his three managing partners and started his second career as a professional artist.

Since 2010, Jason Engelbart has focused entirely on his artistic work. In the years that follow, he develops his own personal artistic signature. In 2011 Engelbart begins to experiment with the various tools of the Photoshop program. He thus lays the foundation for his abstract digital Neo Paintings. 

Engelbart lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. With his work cycle BAROQUE PASSION, he was represented at national and international exhibitions such as the Amory Art Week New York, Art Basel Miami and the Swiss Art Expo Zurich. Engelbart's work has been honored with numerous international awards.

ARTIST STATEMENT

INTUITION AND VISION    I    In my artistic work as well as in my daily life, I am constantly seeking to push the boundaries of physical experience and inner consciousness. I am exploring this world on a spiritual level, seeking to move closer to the meaning that can only be found beyond the realms of our physical reality. My digital Neo Paintings do not follow any kind of predefined image or concept. Instead, I allow my intuition to guide me while I paint, channeling a sense of light and energy into vibrant and colorful movements. They appear to dissolve, only to immediately emerge once again. 

CYCLE BAROQUE PASSION   I    My digital paintings from the Baroque Passion series bridge the timeless and the contemporary. This series transforms the grandeur of historical frescoes into flowing, abstract compositions. Inspired by baroque masters like Johannes Zick and Guido Reni, I digitally layer, distort, and reinvent classical elements, creating swirling forms that radiate movement and light. These Neo Paintings merge historical opulence with modern abstraction, where colors shift like drifting clouds and light sculpts vast yet intimate spaces. At its core, these works explore presence, perception, and the emotional weight of the unseen-paintings that do not simply depict movement but seem to exist within it.

NEO PAINTING TECHNIQUE    I    Throughout my professional career as an artist and designer, technology and its digital tools have always been central to my creative work. In terms of my digital neo paintings, working with Photoshop offers me precise control over the color moods of the individual areas of the image, empowering a fluid compositional process by removing and adding individual image layers. Within these layers, I also paint the color moods and their flowing forms, typically using simple digital tools like the paintbrush and ‘smudge finger’. This is how the flowing formations and rhythmic imagery, characteristic of my work, are created.

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JASON ENGELBART
BASED IN HAMBURG, GERMANY

@jason_engelbart_works
jasonengelbart.de
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