Artist Profile Petra Schott
Petra Schott, And If, 2024,
Oil, pencils, charcoal, and oil pigment sticks
on canvas, 59” x 67” (1500 mm x 1700 mm).
Artist Statement
This work explores the multitude of possibilities we encounter in life and the options available to us. Often, we may not see all these possibilities, but they are there, waiting for us to seize them. The painting features scribbles and inscriptions, including a line from a Mary Oliver poem: “… put your lips to the world and live your life.”
Artist Biography
Petra Schott is a German abstract painter based in Frankfurt. Her work reflects her everyday life as a woman, her longings, and memories, exploring fundamental questions of life.
After completing her second law exam, Schott pursued a Fine Arts Degree at the Art Academy in Kassel, Germany. Balancing her roles as a lawyer and judge, she cultivated her painting career. Since leaving the legal profession in 2014, Schott’s art has garnered attention from national and international galleries, critics, and collectors.
Her emotionally resonant art invites viewers into a space of imagination and introspection. Schott’s paintings blend lyrical abstraction with figurative elements, exploring nostalgia, human relationships, and nature’s intangible aspects. Her work delves into emotions and the human psyche, highlighting fragility, sensitivity, and spirituality.
Art curator Nell Cardozo notes, “There is a generous intimacy in Schott’s use of color that coaxes out a subtle interplay between comfort and longing. Looking into [Schott’s artwork] is like looking into a dream that belongs to some common consciousness.”
Schott regularly exhibits in the UK, US, France, Belgium, and Germany, with her art featured in many private collections. Her work has been published in Create Magazine and Art Seen, and she is represented by several galleries.