Jochen Meyer

Jochen Meyer's paintings are based on traditional craftsmanship. He first captures his ideas in pencil drawings, which are then transferred with ink onto a primed HDF board. He then underpaints them with acrylic paint to establish initial color values ​​and surfaces.

Then several layers of oil paint follow, including glazes to give the subject matter a three-dimensional appearance.

His own artistic style is influenced by New Objectivity, Fantastic Realism, and Surrealism. His work also draws on Pop Art, commercial art, and comics. The pictorial content, presented through free-association, poetic thinking, is strongly rooted in the figure.

Jochen Meyer was born in Bremen in 1956 and grew up in Achim near Bremen. After graduating from high school and completing his community service, he studied art education for a semester in Bremen but quickly decided to study medicine, which he began in Marburg in 1977. He later became a specialist in neurology and psychiatry/psychotherapy and worked in this profession until 2017. Painting and drawing have occupied him since early childhood and at the age of 14 he began painting pictures in oil paints, which he was able to intensify during his medical studies. Starting a family and working later left little time for artistic work. Since 2017 he has devoted himself intensively to painting again. Jochen Meyer lives with his family near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony.