Biography

Anja Bamberg is an artist and art therapist who grew up in the north-eastern part of the GDR next to the Baltic Sea. Her passion for art has accompanied her since her early childhood.

Therefore, it is not surprising that she decided to study art. After the Master of Art, a second degree followed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, in order to concentrate even more intensively on her own artistic work and to set a further focus in her profession.

The MA in Art and Design Therapy enables her to work as an art therapist in many different areas and with different people. Her own artistic work is interwoven with her work as an art therapist. Both parts always influenced and stimulated each other.

In the last few years she has commited herself to her art more and more, almost exclusively.

Her way of painting is powerful and rich in contrast. Her canvases are often taller than she is and become a place where she can let off steam artistically. Anja boldly reaches for colour, loves to see the sheen of oil paint on canvas. In the large-format paintings she is always looking for the greatest possible contrast, but without losing sight of the aesthetic approach.

Her art is characterised by works oriented to her current environment. Her background has always had a strong influence on her work, maybe that’s why the sea has always been an essential part of her art over the last 20+ years.