I like creating surreal, dreamlike images. My work blends vintage illustrations and found imagery with digital techniques to form poetic, nostalgic worlds where reality and imagination overlap. Recurring themes in my visuals include feminine figures, animals, and symbolic or fairytale-inspired elements.
I studied graphic design in Darmstadt and worked for agencies in Germany, the U.S., and Switzerland before shifting my focus entirely to art. 

In addition to my digital work, I have recently returned to painting—exploring color, texture, and atmosphere through traditional materials, which adds another dimension to my creative practice.

"Catrin Welz-Stein is an artist that is known for her unique art of combining drawings with art from those days of yore. With magic in her pen, Catrin Welz-Stein creates digital works of art that melds centuries together in an instant. Her work ignites nostalgia yet at the same time it contrasts and highlights the contemporary. Made with old photographs from the 1900's or with old illustrations from the 1700's, Catrin's knack for piecing and melting them together with her computer, allows these old images to belong right in the present." 

Magazine Little, Singapore, 2020

Exhibitions

2026
Group Exhibition "Vom Blatt zum Raum: Papier im Dialog", Kunstverein Weil am Rhein & VBK Lörrach, Lörrach, Germany
Group Exhibition "Heimat", Werner Brand Kunststiftung, Hochstadt, Germany
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2024
Group Exhibition Universo Feminino, Museo de Arte, Mazatlán, Mexico
Festival of Literature and Illustration for children Different Skies, Lanusei, Italy
Mystische Momente, Galerie Märzhase, Solingen, Germany
Mystische Traumwelten, Stadtbibliothek Arnsberg, Germany
Group Exhibition Pop Up Gallery, Lörrach, Germany
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2022
Group Exhibition Begegnungen, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, Germany
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2021
Artlife Festival, Moscow, Russia
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2018 
Group Exhibition Entresilos, Toledo, Spain
Group Exhibition Pop Surrealism Lowbrow ART, Lavagna, Italy
Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan
Silent Auction, Hilton, Seoul, Korea
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2017 
Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan
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2016 
1st St Petersburg Biennale of Digital Art, Digital Dreams, Moscow, Russia
Group Exhibition UK’s top Illustration Showcase Illustrated 2016, London, UK
Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan
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2015 
Group Exhibition Phantastische Venus, Viechtach, Germany

Featured Collection - Portraits

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