This Spotlight presentation debuts new watercolours and works on canvas by German painter Cécile Lempert. In these 4 works, the artist's unique figurative practice explores and shifts boundaries between traditional portraiture and rendered imagery.

Lempert starts painting onto un-stretched canvases, nailed to the wall of her studio. By using computer generated imagery, family photographs and online source material, she creates powerful and timeless human stills.

Cécile Lempert’s work explores the boundary between reality, computer generated imagery and memory. Her compositions, often characterized by artificial characters and objects, draw on both classical portraiture and rendered imagery. Lempert’s works create a universe that visualizes memories into fictional scenes.

”I build models out of clay or in a virtual program. This way I can try out different angles and sections. Then I make drawings of the picture to get a feeling for the simplification or the colour mood.”
— Cécile Lempert