Heidrun Rathgeb lives and works near Lake Constance in southwestern Germany, where the surrounding light and landscape deeply inform her intimate egg tempera paintings, luminous and patiently layered. Working from plein air sketches that she calls her “daily epiphanies,” she translates lived moments (never photographs) into layers of color and light that evoke both connection and devotion. Influenced by early Sienese painters as well as modern artists like Winifred Nicholson and Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rathgeb approaches painting as an act of attention and care, drawing inspiration from her family, home, and long hikes through the Alps, Norway, and Scotland.