Beate Sonnenberg was born 1966 and raised in Cologne, Germany. She moved in 1992 to study photography at the Bournemouth College of Art and Design in the UK. After graduating she went traveling and settled for six years in Mexico City where she honed her artist skills and met her future husband. They moved back to London in 2002 where she set up her current studio and is still based.
‘For me abstraction is the instant where the beginning and the ending of the story is collapsed into one moment. There is no past nor future, just an impression, emotion or a glimpse of understanding. The suspension of time I think gives access to a deeper inner and other worldly inside of how to experience ourselves and the world around us. Maybe a possibility for duality to disappear for a moment. This is what excites me and that is what I am trying to express and understand.’
