How wonderful that you have landed on my website! My name is Katja Niebuhr and I have been working artistically creatively for more than 20 years. Many CV descriptions begin with: I painted as a small child, or I was infinitely creative even as a child ..... but it was not like that for me somehow. I can not remember a creative childhood. I remember sitting between my grandma's flowers and talking to my guinea pig Moritz. I loved their garden! I only started commenting on puberty at puberty, with graffiti under railway bridges and tunnels. I have memories of a cruel art class at school, where I had such a great mother to give me the piling pictures at home At the end I painted, because I had no desire to paint something predetermined. I can remember how I modeled so exactly a seal in training as an educator, because that was the task. It was so perfect in my opinion that it collapsed into a world for me when I got only a 2 as a rating, and my neighbor got a 1 for her "individual representation" because she modulated the caudal fin in one turn !!! I understood The world no more! First I learned to imitate everything correctly, then it was all at once as creative, if you did something different than said eigendlich or was given as a task! So the question flared up in me: What is this with this creativity? I started to research. In my education as an educator, I was always drawn to the creative corner, to offers in designing. I watched the children being creative with paint, paper, pencils, etc ... and I had alternative-thinking teachers and teachers at that time. I questioned everything and rejected template work that had a ready-made goal. I learned to create a creative space in which something unpredictable happened. In the study of social work, my question about the energy that generates creativity became more concrete. I dealt theoretically with art - social sculpture, Beuys, took a lot of creative projects under the microscope .... I worked creatively with people. And wrote my diploma thesis for Social Work under the title: Being Sensual - How Perception Determines Our Action.An Approach to Social Work Concepts.In this time, I can situate my spiritual awakening as I am led by a wonderful professor - human was led into a world that combined philosophy, body and perception. I felt it said and was allowed to feel what was indescribable, as he lectured in nature, connected to work, filled in pauses, and performed physical exercises. After that, I did not want to do any year of recognition, in any institution. I went in search of and found the castle Freudenberg in Wiesbaden. The field of experience of the senses and of thinking.www.schloßfreudenberg.de Here everything was able to merge what I have learned theoretically. I could make my question even more concrete: where does movement come from which brings everything to life? After this year and another year of work in Freudenberg Castle, I realized that I wanted to study art. I want to touch on the roots of my question. In order to really penetrate it, I want to be artistically active myself. Actually, my wish was great, great pictures to paint, but I still remember exactly how it felt in me that I'm not good enough for that. I preferred to apply for sculpture, as the lecturer was better, it was easier to get in there, and I had no great folder with great pictures to show. The sculptures were the better ones after an artistic term, which I was proud to present. So I studied sculpture at the Alanus University in Alfter near Bonn. An intense time followed. There was a lot of work in Norway - the piano by the lake, where I stood on the bank after a weird piano music and sang against the wind, in a white dress. - An old white door that stood in the woods ... with the title "The key is stuck ". I remember working in the middle of Niemansland on a lake where I drew straight lines with a chalk artist for sports fields on the stones on the edge of the lake. A separation pulled to the water. I looked into the water and watched the wave movements and felt a deep yearning for connection with this movement. I just did this work, it was free work. We should do something. My soul wanted it, it was her expression for my feelings at that time. Today I know that it is the movement in which I wanted. In this liveliness of the water. I felt disconnected from my liveliness - from the inexpressible. I left that feeling of being apart and allowed myself to paint, big, alive, full of love in the spiritual connection of the living. I accept my potential of creativeness and allow the message of my soul to be brought to earth. I am alive as I am. And the dying belongs to the living again and again. And I would also like to remind you and encourage you to develop your vitality. For this I have been searching and practicing through my years, developing techniques that will help you get into your creative expression. It is important to meet other people on an equal footing. I am not "the perfect Katja" who knows everything and knows everything. I make mistakes, fall into stupid behavior or react unbalanced. It is important to me not to stand on a pedestal but with both feet firmly on the floor. We are all fallible - but we are all supported on our way. What touches me most and what I see as a central task in my life is the love I have discovered in creative work of sharing with others. We are often in search of our lives for a long time - while love itself is already searching for us. With my work in the studio and elsewhere, I want to make the love experienceable that wants to reach you. That fills me!

Every human is unique. That's why I tailor my offer exactly to your challenges. We paint in groups, individual sessions and / or completed workshops. If I have sparked your interest and you are looking for new life inspiration for you or your clients, please contact me. I'm really looking forward to seeing you! All love, connectedness Your Katja Niebuhr