Ángela Tröndle (born 1983 in Salzburg) has become proficient in various forms of expression. For many years, her artistic focus was on creating audible works: in the music she composed, the songs she brought to the stage with her voice, and in teaching these skills. In 2016, a desire for reduction and a need for silence grew, coupled with a longing to reconnect with nature. This conscious embrace of a new mindset created space for new things, and her inherently visual creative nature, always present since childhood, began to grow and thrive in an entirely new and playful way. Since then, it has found its path from blue printing to the collage-like further processing of the blue images, to watercolor painting and various mixed techniques.

“I often discover parallels in my visual works to psychological processing I’ve gone through in recent years. The layers of blue-gray residual water, paired with clear, dark lines, trace my inner landscapes and dreamscapes on paper, bringing emotional states to the surface that I haven’t yet been able to express in my music or lyrics. These emotional states often become visible in the structure, color, and form on the paper, allowing me to better understand my own story and inner world. In connection with nature, which plays a significant role in the process of creating iron-blue prints, I approach the technique from various intuitive and playful angles, exploring its many possibilities, which often reveal themselves quite unexpectedly. Titles and themes for the works usually only emerge at the end, once the picture is complete and I immerse myself in observing it to internalize what has come into being. Then, sometimes, the image even takes a place on the music stand by the piano, and I improvise with tones, words, and sounds based on what I see. A title often arises then—a word or two that I let resonate in the space, like a fragment of lyrics from a song I haven’t yet written.

I view my entire artistic work as an interplay between improvisation and composition. The playful and spontaneous meets the deliberately placed and finely executed; simplicity connects with the depth of complexity to form a whole.”