Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures

This autumn, the Garden Museum presents the first UK museum exhibition of the work of the German contemporary artist Sabine Moritz.

In many of her paintings, Moritz reflects on her childhood in East Germany. Several of the works in this exhibition draw on Moritz’s recollections of growing up in Neulobeda, a satellite town filled with concrete-slab housing, where her family moved following the death of her father. Dealing with grief, Moritz searched for solace beyond the city, exploring the surrounding hills and countryside.

Now living in Cologne, Moritz keeps potted plants and vases of fresh flowers, which inspire her ongoing series of floral still-life paintings. Iin recent years she has started to explore relationships with the natural world through an almost total abstraction and the exhibition includes new abstract works created especially for this exhibition.