...began in her childhood. Armed with felt-tip and colouring pens she shaded everything possible, during children's painting courses she learned to simply "take the plunge" and bring things to paper.
Various courses and workshops covering a varierty of topics and materials followed, eg. "landscapes in oil"; after which it was clear to her that this just wasn't her thing - neither landscapes or oil-painting. So crystalised over the years that in fact "her kind of thing" was indeed abstract expressionism.
The direction had been found but this was no reason to remain with the familiar. The catchword was "experimental painting" - through application of innovative, unusual and uncommon techniques and styles the artist achieves a constant development. In this way the valued inspiration comes almost by itself.
Furthermore, there comes the ongoing study of social psychology of miscellaneous characters, nations and mentalities, which is sometimes reflected by the combination of somewhat strong, impulsive colour-gradients and structures in her works of art. The for Tina Reaper-Schneider characteristic abstract-expressionalistic projection nevertheless leaves the observer adequate room for interpretation.
In previous years Abstraktina has been exhibiting her works in numerous individual and group exhibitions to an interested public.
Abstraktina art can be found in a multitude of private and public, national and international collections.
