CARLA HELGA CULEMANN
Who dances with happiness

I've been traveling in my yellow van, discarded by the German Federal Post Office, for almost a year now, and I've now covered 20,000 kilometers, once back and forth to the Canary Islands and once around the Iberian Peninsula including Portugal.

In spring I started from La Palma, visited El Hierro, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife and took the ferry to Andalusia.

At the end of April via Malaga, Murcia, Valencia to Barcelona, from where I took the ferry to Rome. What a ride!!!!

I gave my painting workshop there in Tuscany, in Umbria at Casa Simoncelli.

After a day in Ravenna, where I marveled at the beautiful mosaics, I escaped the flood in time.

In mid-May I went to Germany, after a successful technical observation of my car, I continued via Denmark, along the North Sea coast, to Norway in the fjord landscape and to my son's family.

I couldn't believe it at all, my dream had come true, to travel alone by bus into the indescribably powerful, elemental nature, to visit stave churches, and just be, at the waterfall, by the fjord, or in the mountains.

And Midsummer in Norway, where it doesn't get dark, where there is celebration. I really enjoyed that.

Luckily I managed it all well. I'm pretty proud of it too. Luckily I have the courage!

After another lively time in Germany in July, I have now landed in Denmark on Funen, where I rented an apartment in a nice little artists' town for a change. I have been here for four weeks and am enjoying being in one place and am in a kind of inner contemplation. Everything can be processed, right?!

On the way I give painting seminars and let the sun shine on me.

In mid-September I'm heading south again...