Vibrant, pebble-like paintings from Berlin-based artist Frau Grau

These painted shapes from Berlin-based Frau Grau are just wonderful with their rich, vivid tones and excellent composition. I really like the organic and uneven shapes, with each one refusing to tesselate neatly with its neighbour. The formation and assembly works fantastically, laid out like a detailed study of jewel-like pebbles and rocks found on an imagined coastline. It’s this ambiguity about what the artist is actually depicting that interests me so much.

There’s great depth to these sketches and it’s lovely picking out the different patterns and abstract landscapes Frau Grau has created within them. It’s only by really studying them that you start to appreciate the wealth of grainy and bobbled textures underlying each one, adding to their natural beauty. It’s a great example of how a simple idea combined with uncomplicated techniques can be just as interesting as the bigger projects out there.