Ulla Mentzel

Strangely enough, I was born in Angola, Africa, in 1955 and spent my first six years on a coffee and tobacco plantation in the middle of the African nowhere. I was raised in Germany by German parents, was a high school exchange student in Iowa, and received an MA in American Literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Then I lived in Berlin, West Germany, for 10 years before The Wall came down, moved to the island of Maui in Hawaii when Berlin was not an island anymore, spent 12 years in the Bay Area, and am currently living in Talent.

I am a mother of 2 grown young people.

I am a very creative person, love to do things that have not been done before, and express myself through a variety of creative arts like writing, designing mobiles, knitting scarves and making art pieces.

My latest creative adventure has been a website called www.a-good-dying.com. It offers information, poems, images and videos, all about the end of life. I specially focus on the luminous side of death and dying.

My Art:
Playing with my kid’s crayons 15 plus years ago I remembered a technique I had learned as a high school student. By layering crayons and scratching out images I found myself spending days and nites busily scratching away.

I discovered that I actually could create bodies, hands, snakes, and faces - what a surprise! I scratched 60 paintings in six months...

I am still happily scratching away, and have recently added colored pencils.

Now my subject matter has more turned to mandalas full of light and complex lines and strange symbols. They move from one line to the next, from one pattern to the next, from one image to the next.

I rarely plan my images. The images evolve organically, one step at a time.

I still marvel that my untrained hands (I only took art classes in high school) can let these images flow through me onto paper. They offer glimpses into an internal world I never would have otherwise accessed or be able to share publicly.

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