ERIKA RIFINIUS | PURE JOY & RELAXING EXPERIENCE
Erika Rifinius was born in the 80s to an artistic family based in Germany. She spent her childhood in her parent’s studio between canvases and turpentine and fully experienced the art scene by going to exhibitions and museums.
As she grew up, she decided to focus on academic studies and graduated from the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany) in 2008.
During the years, she has also become a professional theater actress and developed a unique artistic style which led her to deepen invest in her art.
Rifinius has been painting all her life, but she first exhibited her work in 2021 at the Discovery Art Fair in Frankfurt.
In her unique art, you will find colorful lightness and various mediums and techniques, from oil to spray color, all of which create vibrant, full-of-life mixed media art.
60 x 20×3,5 cm
“Throughout our lives, we work to create. Mainly with the wish of finding happiness. While our organism, like the breathing lungs works just to keep us alive. Any intention can be called work out of a desire to achieve expression and quality.
But to create something, you have to minimize yourself to the here and now, and that’s a nice place with a lot of space. So my work springs from a place of peace created with the intention to effect joy in the viewer. Which should encourage you to take a deep breath. And when I try to get to the bottom of my need to paint, I can find my immense attraction to the smell of the materials.
The smell of oil, spray, and turpentine. It smells like a lifestyle of freedom.”
-Erika Rifinius
Spray on canvas. 70x50x4,5 cm
Spray on canvas. 90x30x4 cm
Mixed media on canvas. 105 x 130 cm
