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Manuela Mordhorst was born and raised in Bonn, Germany in 1970. From 2009 on she was working as an independent artist.

Since the early 1980's she is interested in arts, culture and music. Early musical training by the pianist and conductress Chean See Ooi.

Mordhorst is strongly influenced by her italian and Sylt island roots, and by her father who is artistically very talented in painting,

mottle and gild. The artist is married, lives and works close to Hamburg, Germany. Regularly she participates in national exhibitions.

Manuela Mordhorst worked as a documentation assistant for sociological and political literature in Bonn after high school education

During the apprenticeship Manuela Mordhorst was always training by private art teachers and seminars / workshops in Bonn and

Cologne

Manuela Mordhorst learned different technical processes, taking into account various painting grounds and materials, with a focus on

still lifes and landscapes

1995 Further training in charcoal and graphite drawing, with a focus on still lifes, sketches and portraits

1996 Further education in acrylic and tempera painting, focus on abstraction

1997 Further education in Indian ink, watercolor, gouache, pigments, production of own materials

2002 - 2017 Freelance photographer, focus on lifestyle, people, events & landscapes, art

2006 Relocation from Cologne to Handeloh near Buchholz in der Nordheide, Lower Saxony

2009 - ongoing Freelance artist

Since 2012 Various exhibitions and trade fair presentations

2014 Further training in gilding

2015 Autodidactic examination of stone flour and chalk

2018 Studio community in Maschen Factory, Hittfeld / Maschen

2019 Board member of the art association Art Projekt, Bruchhausen-Vilsen

Manuela Mordhorst is married, lives and works in Handeloh near Hamburg

Her works are represented in regional, national and international private collections.

Her art is represented by:

ARTvergnügen, Georgsmarienhütte