fingerpainting

ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY DIETMAR FINGER

Since my time as a car designer I really enjoy painting landscapes, a passion which started while visiting the Isle of Islay, an island where I now live and work. Depending on subject and size of the painting my preferred media are watercolour or acrylics.

I mostly work in my studio, but sketching on site and capturing moods and impressions in my sketchbook is a pleasure, which makes me forget the time and the world around me.

It might be worth to mention that I usually do not paint with my fingers. I prefer to use brushes, but I thought it would be fun to name my website “www.fingerpainting.de” after my surname.

I have to admit a slight tardiness in updating my website, but I regularly post new paintings on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fingerpainting.de/

For any inquiries don´t hesitate to get in touch with me by email: dietmar@fingerpainting.de.

Thank you for showing interest in my work and enjoy your visit to my website!

Dietmar Finger

WHAT'S NEW?

Exhibition "Jazz on Islay" at the Gaelic Centre, Islay

It will be an honour to exhibit some landscape and jazz paintings during two cultural highlights in the islands calendar, the Islay Book Festival and the Islay Lagavulin Jazz Festival.

Beside some finished jazz paintings, I will also show studies and sketches, that are often part of the process of creating a picture.

Exhibition in Nicolls Gallery, Glasgow in May 2024

I am really looking forward to my first exhibition in Glasgow. The work on a series of new paintings is undergoing.

Exhibition "And there was Music" 2023

Many jazz entusiasts are looking forward to the Islay Jazz Festival, which will be on from 15. to 17. September. Like last year this is the reason to display a range of themed paintings to decorate the venue appropriately.

Exhibition "Islay Impressions" 2023

My exhibition "Islay Impressions" in the ICCI in Bowmore shows many new watercolour paintings of subjects of this beautiful island. I am especially hapopy that visitors of the Islay Book Festival will be able to see the exhibition.

Exhibition "And there was Music" 2022

This year the Islay Jazz Festival delayed into October. In cooperation with Jane Taylor I set up an exhibition of paintings inspired by Jazz, Blues in the ICCI in Bowmore.

Exhibition "On Canvas and Paper"

Starting 8. May ending 10. July (extended) the Ionad Chaluim Chile Ìle / the Gaelic Centre in Bowmore/Islay. Acrylic paintings on canvas and watercolour on paper.

Exhibition "Islay Impressions"

Above mentioned exhibition followed the one of watercolour portraits, from 27. May until 1. August 2021.

Exhibition "And there was Music"

On the occasion of the Islay Lagavulin Jazz Festival in September I and fellow artists showed a series of paintings inspired by Jazz, Blues and music in general.

This might become an annual event and we are already working on paintings for the 2022 festival.

Exhibition "Islay Faces"

Starting 23. May, ending 27. June 2021 exhibited a series of portraits I painted of strong local faces in the Ionad Chaluim Chile Ìle / the Gaelic Centre in Bowmore/Islay. A project of one and a half years.