Sibille Clemens was born and raised
in Berlin. Painting has been her love from an early age. She learned
various artistic techniques in courses and gallery workshops and
later worked in studios with Berlin artists. Her father did not allow
her to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. Instead, she had to study
medicine.
After completing her studies and working for many
years in various hospitals and later in her own practice, she was
finally able to fulfil her dream and work in a large studio of her
own after retiring to a lonely farm in Austria. It was during this
time that she produced her lithographs in the Linz workshop of
Professor Alfred Billy.
After numerous exhibitions between
Hamburg, Berlin, Karlsruhe and Linz, she now devotes herself entirely
to her vocation. Today, the artist lives as a painter and writer with
her dog Bella in Rottal in Lower Bavaria.
The proceeds from
her paintings benefit children with cancer, environmental protection
associations and animal welfare organisations. "Painting,"
she says, "was never a compulsion, never a means to earn money.
It could be a refuge, tension, relaxation and psychotherapy for me.
Like a diary, my paintings document the stages of my life. Style and
techniques change, depending on mood and experience."
A
biography worth reading.
(Ariane Freier, Passauer Neue Presse)