A little about myself

Fantasy sketches

It is always a pleasure to stroke the pencil across a paper
and to surprise myself in the process.

2021
2019

Newspaper article

Sonja Werni from the newspaper "Schaffhauser Nachrichten" visited my studio. A great encounter!

The model and the painting

The painting is 2x2m

2018
2016

Course photorealistic painting

Photorealistic painting with Delaram Homayouni in Wiesbaden Germany, an intense exploration of the subject. It was so inspiring!

Impressions

Impressions from my studio

2016
2014

Exhibition at Sternen (in Thayngen)

In the Kulturzentrum im Sternen in Thayngen was my big solo exhibition. Many visitors, wonderful music and Nodi Sigg with a great opening speech!

Woodcutting course

Woodcarving course with Prof. Jo Bukowski. Fascinating the play with the same picture elements, which, when placed in new positions, tell a new story. The smallest shifts can bring a big change. The philosophical aspect is just as interesting. In woodblock printing, the preliminary work, the sketch, is crucial, because every cut has to sit. Even during printing, the color can be experimented with further.

2013
2013

Lakeside Gallery

Radolfzell, Germany

Museum Night

At the cross-border exhibition Museumsnacht Hegau-Schaffhausen (Germany-Switzerland) with 2 other participants I have on the one hand the
video installations "Water" in the cellar vault on the one hand and "Thayngen 1890-2006" on the church tower in Thayngen on the other hand.

2006
2005

Computer generated images

Computer-generated images, that’s when I first ventured into the
computer and it opened up a whole new world for me.

Daniela Benz and her first oil painting

This video shot by a colleague, is created during the 2 year preparatory course at the College of Art and Design, Zurich. It is my first oil painting, primed myself and you can see how I apply an acrylic underpainting to then continue to work with oil paint. This variant can be chosen to save oil paint. The picture hung until the end of 2021 in the doctor's office of my then husband. It provided again and again for conversation with his clients.

2004 – 2006
2002-2016

Education

Daniela Benz Born in Schaffhausen/CH Resident in Thayngen/CH
Learned and practiced various professions
2002-04 Various training courses, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung, Zürich/CH
2004-06 In-service preliminary course, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung, Zürich/CH
2007-09 Composition and painting education, Freie Kunstschule Wiesbaden/D
2008 Painting lessons with Markus Greif, Thayngen/CH
2009 Advanced training course video with Prof. Franz Reichle Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich/CH
2010 Continuing education in painting at  Prof. Jo Bukowski
2011 Continuing education in painting at Prof. Jo Bukowski
2012 Continuing education in painting at Prof. Jo Bukowski
2013 Further education in woodcut at Prof. Jo Bukowski Continuing education in painting at Prof. Jo Bukowski
2014 Further education in woodcut at Prof. Jo Bukowski Continuing education in painting at Prof. Jo Bukowski
2016 Further education in photorealistic painting at Delaram Homayouni