Daniela Forster

Collage artist and storyteller Daniela Forster’s playful use of colour, the combination of symbolism, dimension, semantics, light and texture are her trademarks.  Her style is unique, her insights mystical, philosophical, magical.  Hans-Juergen Mueller, Germany’s most successful Avant-Garde Gallerist, and the founder of “Zukunftwerkstatt-Mariposa” has called her work rare and extraordinary.  Daniela receives inspiration as a medium and like an alchemical marriage, imagination and sensitivity form a magical mysterious world.  Her innate process of discovery, exploration, and learning are always at play.  She is captivated by diverse influences; fairy tales, music, film, anime, history, Jung, German Romanticism, Chagall, Bosch, Matisse, Einstein and Michelangelo, to name a few.

Daniela is fascinated with crystal. Crystal radiance signifies for her, the most awesome of inspirational objects to work with. A passion for observing the dance of spectrums in a crystal has enchanted her since she was a small child. Her study of crystals and colour gave birth to a thought experiment. How does physical light play with our inner spiritual twinkle, giving rise to wonder, to faith, to love? Water has alot to do with it.  Crystals serve as a powerful catalyst for her move into developing crowns, hats, and her passage into "high fashion".  She has been called a “Wunderkind” by Guernot-Langes Swarovski, for her creations and work with Swarovski crystals. Her crystal crowns have adorned Princesses and Countessa’s, celebrities, rock stars, and stone statues in Holy Shrines in India. 

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Daniela's Artist Statement

As a child I use to sit and draw while looking up to the colossal ceilings of our churches in the Franconian-Bavarian Alps.  My heart inspired with passion with the architecture, my mind on fire with questions — and certainties as well.  I knew, for instance, that I would write books and draw pictures when I grew up.  Even in childhood, this knowledge felt deep and sacred as a vow.

I have a passion for illustrated picture books.  Fairy tales, myths, sagas, legends, books about symbolism, rhyme, lyrics and poetry, all opened a rich world of imagination for me.  I began to invent magical scenarios of hero and heroine, witches and wizards, filling hours of play and  fortifying my psyche with adventures through dark and light.

The exploration and discoveries in my imaginative play soothed my struggle to understand the “who and what” of God and Faith. Belief in my imaginary world, in my creative spirit, aligned night into, peace and play.  I wrestled with the notions of becoming a nun, it started after seeing the film “The Song of Bernadette”.  This film like my first Opera “Norma” and my first experience of “The Passion Play” evoked questions, many of them.
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