We owe the interpretation of painter Heinz Drache as a gardener to Dresden art critic Ingrid Wentzkat: "Just as a gardener cultivates his field, he too repeatedly digs up his own, washes it out, uses leftover paint to sow other colors over it in delicate structures, moss-like growths, and surface-forming splashes of color." His late paintings can be described as gardens in which a wealth of the rarest, most fragile, and at the same time most seductively beautiful forms grow. He worked on canvas and paper, patiently applying layer upon layer, like fertile soil. The elaborately crafted backgrounds are also a trademark of Heinz Drache. They create an immaterial color space for his transformations and metamorphoses, damaged, cracked, yet preciously shimmering. In this carefully prepared bed of color, the dreams and dream images of his soul blossom into mostly whimsical and cheerful, rarely disturbing and eerie, but always sensitively balanced creations.
