The painting of Wilhelm Imkamp grows, without studies or drafts, on the canvas from the first color settings. From an all-encompassing primordial ground, the colors condense into formal events. Usually avoiding the strict line, Imkamp binds the condensations into a crystalline structure. Memories of the familiar can already be involved in the design process (head, barque, city). Mostly, however, Imkamp proceeds solely from the interaction of free forms. Often picture titles are found because of the associations that the newly evoked imagery can evoke.
Although the color increases in the course of the 1950s to autonomous luminosity, but a basic trait always remains: A colored form is not placed on the surface, but the colored events grow out of an unfathomable deep space, which cannot be grasped by rational laws, in order to sink back down into it after their appearance.