Aufbruch Braun
60 x 80 cm
Marble meal, lime putty, ink, stain, pigments, chalk

Aufbruch Grau

60 x 80 cm
Marble meal, lime putty, ink, stain, pigments, chalk

           About

Heike Tylman-Breuckmann – Where Structure Breathes and Silence Becomes Form

Heike Tylman-Breuckmann moves within a world where painting is not an image, but a process—an unfolding of texture, intuition, and inner rhythm. Since 1994, her work has evolved as a continuous journey of trust: trust in material, in gesture, and in the quiet spaces between both. Trained over many years in process-oriented painting, particularly under Gabriele Musebrink, she has developed a visual language that feels unearthed rather than constructed.

Her surfaces are not painted; they are built. Layer by layer, she allows pigments, grounds, and natural textures to interact, collide, and settle into a state of quiet equilibrium. The canvas or the panel becomes a terrain shaped by time, rhythm, and the soft unpredictability of matter. Nothing is imposed; everything is invited. What emerges is a subtle choreography between intention and surrender.

There is a grounded stillness in her work, a calm pulse that runs through each composition. Colours appear not as loud declarations but as atmospheric fields restrained, refined, and vibrating like a distant memory. The textures echo landscapes, but never literally. Instead, they evoke inner topographies: places of recollection, resonance, and slow transformation. Her works feel like the trace of something elemental, a whisper of earth meeting air.

Across Europe, these paintings have found their way into exhibitions from Milan to Barcelona, from Stuttgart to Mettmann. Yet it is not geography that defines them. It is their capacity to hold space to create a pause, a breath, a moment in which the viewer encounters their own inner landscape.

Tylman-Breuckmann is part of various artistic communities, but her true belonging lies in the dialogue with her materials. It is a quiet dialogue, patient and intuitive. A search for balance between what is seen and what is sensed.

Her strength is not in depicting the world, but in distilling it. She transforms pigments, grounds, and textures into states of being states where silence becomes visible, and where the rawness of material opens into something luminous and contemplative.

In her work, material becomes emotion. And emotion becomes form.