About The Artist

Dietmar PICKERING born 21.02.1958 1973-1977: Commercial career school for painting, sign design and fresco 1982-83: Education in Airbrush-design and layout, Art-design and Advertising graphics, (Phillip Castle, Private school in Santa Fe) 1985: International publication of artwork Airbrush-Pen & Ink, Aquarell, Oil-Acrylic mixed techniques 1986: Television appearances (ie: “Wetten dass…”) Airbrush portrait presentation of artists like: Frank Elstner, Gianna Nannini, Rainhard Fendrich and Barbara Wussow 1987: Airbrush body painting for different show appearances. 1988: European Kodak Award winner in Arles – Frankreich Black & White photo paint-overs Opening of the “Weckende Emotionen” [Eng. Waking Emotions] picture series 1989-94: International profiling as self-employed designer References: Fischer Ski, Glasses design for Joop, Jil Sander & Paloma Picasso Textile design, Auto design for Marke Burg Design, Designed a “Breitling-watch” and different productions in cooperation with advertising agencies. 1993-2004: Creation of experimental art in Oil-Acrylic, presented in many exhibitions in Austria, Switzerland and France. 2001: Entering the world of theater and working as scene painter at the Landestheater in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. 1998-2009 After three years of preliminary work the international art project CAT PEOPLE "Figural Art" was realized. During more than 400 shootings about 14,000 pictures were taken. 2006 the first CATPEOPLE calendar was published, followed by the CATPEopel calendar in 2008 and the large format CATPEOPLE calendar in 2009. 2011: After decades of work on various art projects, in 2009 Dietmar Pickering took a creative break during which he got interested in several new topics. Birth and death were both themes that made him reflect on ever-recurring questions like "Why am I the way I am? What is the meaning of my life and who decides what will happen?” His non-scientific realization is that finally everybody carries his life in his hands and determines its course but there are influencing factors that assist us. These personal findings made Pickering dedicate his work to the topic "Angels" which resulted in this picture material "AGE OF ANGELS" on this site. 2010: a new personal era of painting! After 30 years of various painting styles Pickering discovered his preference for the colours blue, white and meral under the motto “Blue723“ in 2010.