Bio - Oliver Fauser was born in July 1965 in Lörrach, Germany, near the Black Forest

on the boarder to Basel in Switzerland. He is a single father of two grown up sons.

In the 1980’s and 1990’s he traveled all over the world, lived in various cities such as New York, Milan and Hamburg.

He toured with various New York musical-productions and German plays all over Europe.

After a yearlong intermezzo in the film industry in Cologne he decided to return back to the Black Forest in 1998.

Since 1986 he has been the singer/ songwriter with the band “The Moonchildren” and is still recording music to this day.

Oliver began painting in the early 1990’s after the birth of his first son. In 2005 he started full-time painting in his present style.

Since then he has produced a large body of work from paintings to three dimensional objects.

Oliver is fascinated by texture and it plays a central part in his work, he uses diverse materials such as sand, plastic, gravel, filler, wood,

leaves, emulsion, oil and acrylic paint on timbered Styrodur to create often dramatic effects.

His inspiration is drawn from a range of subjects from textures in the inorganic such as city paths and wallpapers

to the organic like woodlands and nudes.

 

Artist Statement - I am an abstract expressionist, a nude expressionist, I even call myself an interior decorator,

a Styrodur designer, a painting sculpturer. I am not trying to give way to my dark sides in my art, my aim is to create harmonic pieces of art that light up a room.

I am mixing well planned work with possible accidents, always willing to change and try out new things. Most of my works are created with filler and some paint

on Styrodur, and I love the fact that it doesn’t always seem like it.