Uschi Pomp was born in 1959 in Cologne and lives in Munich. She has worked at the atelier hpca studio of the Heilpädagogischen Centrum Augustinum München in Oberschleißheim since 1992. Here she has created an extensive artistic works comprising several thousand works in oil crayons on paper. Already from 1997 the artist had several single exhibitions and was involved in about 80 group exhibitions. An extensive block of Pomp's works can now be found in Arnulf Rainer' art collection in Vienna and various private collections in Germany.

Uschi Pomp's painting - or should we day drawing? - is determined by the gesture. In innumerable overlayerings, she draws long strokes vertically across the sheet and back again. The individual colour layers modulate, mix, blend into a dense colour effect. But what still remains visible in this mode of working is the trace of the physical movement.

Pomp usually works with both hands at the same time, clutching a crayon in each, which quickly dwindles under the force and spreads as a pasty layer over the ground. The initial tangle of individual strokes quickly becomes definable zones, which enter into a tension with one another in the right-hand corner of the picture. Occasionally they merge together completely and are overdrawn by figurative elements. "It is the colour's innate strength that asserts itself in the simple, elementary gesture [.], surpassing the boundaries of the format. "An inexorable, almost vegetative growth of colour to its flowering", wrote the critic Andreas Link about the artist's way of working.