With vibrant watercolor hues and delicate ink lines, Susanne Loose brings her love for the mountains to paper. The Hamburg-based tattoo artist and architect creates evocative mountain landscapes where silence, solitude, and nature find their expression. Now available as high-quality art prints, posters, or canvas pictures—for all who yearn for vastness and tranquility.

Artist drawing inspiration from nature
Susanne Loose is a tattoo artist and freelance architect. Born in 1988 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in Saxony, she studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden from 2007 to 2014 and subsequently worked in various offices in Dresden, Zurich, Berlin, and Hamburg, where she currently resides.
Drawing and painting have been with her since early childhood. She primarily illustrated animals and people during her school years, and as a teenager, she went through an intense phase of manga-style art. During her architecture studies, she somewhat lost sight of drawing, but her love for graphic representation was nurtured there. She was most captivated by art subjects like life drawing, painting, etching, and "representation," as well as creating atmospheric plan drawings and visualizations. After starting her professional career, she rediscovered her urge for pencil and brush, which led to the creation of most works in her portfolio. This eventually steered her towards tattooing in 2017, where the artistic and illustrative quality of the designs remains her top priority.
Susanne has always been passionate about mountains, often going mountaineering in the Alps or climbing wherever rocks can be found. Her places of longing are reflected in her mountain motifs, which she brings to paper with vibrant watercolor paints and graphic black ink lines. She draws inspiration from rugged rocky landscapes, woodland walks, the light moods at sunrise and sunset, weather phenomena in the mountains, animals (especially all kinds of cats), and the silence and solitude of high altitudes (the fewer trees, the better), the forests: here the soul finds rest.
In her mountain illustrations, she sketches the rocks thinly first, paints the areas with watercolor intuitively, and then adds the black lines (contours) with a dip pen or fineliners/markers. Photos, images from memory, or sometimes no template at all serve as inspiration. She prefers a free representation based on intuition. "Small mistakes in the picture bother me less. It doesn't have to be perfect, but lively," says the artist.
She mostly works with watercolor paints (the color selection often depends on what color she feels like using) and traces lines with ink. For tattoo designs, she often uses the iPad.
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