Gabriele Sehn (born 1957 in Eppelborn) studied architecture in Mainz and later fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She further developed her sculptural work under the guidance of Professor Eberhard Linke. Her pieces have been exhibited in numerous shows associated with art awards (including those of the B. & G. Rosenheim Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of Sparkasse Karlsruhe, and the Eremitage Bayreuth). She has also received several grants and residencies—in southern Spain, at the Kunst-Eremitage Rietzer Berg, and most recently, the Uwe Lüders Art Grant in Lüneburg.
Using ink and acrylic on paper or canvas, Gabriele Sehn creates visual worlds that celebrate the diversity of life while simultaneously raising questions about the future of natural habitats. Her works hover between abstraction and association, inviting the viewer to discover ever-changing forms, connections, and narratives.
Gabriele Sehn (born 1957 in Eppelborn) studied architecture in Mainz and later fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She further developed her sculptural work under the guidance of Professor Eberhard Linke. Her pieces have been exhibited in numerous shows associated with art awards (including those of the B. & G. Rosenheim Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of Sparkasse Karlsruhe, and the Eremitage Bayreuth). She has also received several grants and residencies—in southern Spain, at the Kunst-Eremitage Rietzer Berg, and most recently, the Uwe Lüders Art Grant in Lüneburg.
Using ink and acrylic on paper or canvas, Gabriele Sehn creates visual worlds that celebrate the diversity of life while simultaneously raising questions about the future of natural habitats. Her works hover between abstraction and association, inviting the viewer to discover ever-changing forms, connections, and narratives.
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, 2019 A white net prevents you from entering the landscape. In the distance is a small lonely house ...
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2020 Gabriele Sehn's works are often filled with dream and mixed beings, e.g. Human-animal shapes. HERE: A girl sits on a branch like on a swing; below, a chimera leaning against a tree trunk - a being between a human and a dog. The background is a landscape with grazing sheep and a menacing sky. The beings ask the...
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 50 x 70cm 2019 A more abstract color is overlaid by a white amorphous surface. It is reminiscent of ice stalagmites.
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, 2019 A group of mushrooms for an abstract landscape.
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2020 Gabriele Sehn's works are often filled with dream and mixed beings, e.g. Human-animal shapes and deal with humans and their environment. HERE: A woman holds a child by the hand. You are on an inhospitable planet. A rain of flowers seems to be falling over them. Is it an inferno or a blessing?
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2020 Gabriele Sehn's works are often filled with dream and mixed beings, e.g. Human-animal shapes. HERE: The seer sits in the open window, in the area of tension between freedom and security. She sees but is also observed. Is she a prisoner of herself? What is she waiting to fly away from? The picture gives the viewer...
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2020 Gabriele Sehn's works are often filled with dream and mixed beings, e.g. Human-animal shapes. HERE: The beautiful hunter as a representation of the field of tension - love and death: beauty as the union of this contrast, death as the sting in the flesh of love. I was inspired by the death of my dog, who was also my...
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2020 Gabriele Sehn's works are often filled with dream and mixed beings, e.g. Human-animal shapes. HERE: A girl is lying on the grass and sleeping. Chickens look at it with interest. The dimensions are shifted; the chickens are so big that they could pick the girl, but the situation is not really threatening. A large snail...
Organic forms, floral structures, and vibrant color palettes merge into multi-layered pictorial spaces. This painting is rooted in an intense engagement with the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as the transformations it undergoes. The artist´s gaze focuses not only on the visible but also on what might emerge: growth, metamorphosis, and new...