Johannes Hoelderl is an artist living in British Columbia, Canada. He works with traditional painting like oil, watercolour, and also with digital art. Focusing on Figurative and Landscape art. He moved from Germany in 1998 to Canada, B.C. In 2012 to 2017 he travelled to Europe often to visit art museums and do some paintings with watercolors. Usually renting a room for a couple months and exploring the city.

I think it is interesting that art can be worth more than paint and canvas used to make it it is like alchemy transforming a blank canvas to something valuable, possibly. The risk and gamble of creating something good that is seen as value. What if a painting had the artists name erased would it still be valuable? It is also interesting to create something collectible, a brand. It is interesting: what makes a painting valuable to people? Before photography it was of value to create an image of someone to record their image, now with photography where is the value? What is the point of art that is definable and explainable? Then a photograph or the real object is just as good or better. We need art to tell a story or have a meaning but it can not be obvious or explainable or it dies. It is a paradox. To be a great artist you can not think about what you are trying to portray too hard but it also has to have meaning which comes from another dimension, accidental or the unconscious perhaps? Paintings are not necessary for people to survive. People love paintings for all sorts of reasons, some view it as a commodity like a gold bar that they know has value and can be traded for money which is the reason they like it.
It is interesting to try and make something valuable.

“Hardly anyone really feels about painting: they read things into it—even the most intelligent people—they think they understand it, but very, very few people are aesthetically touched by painting” -Francis Bacon

Johannes Hoelderl