The painter was born in 1955 in Berg im Drautal in Carinthia and studied from 1974 to 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Prof. Hessing. Trips abroad and a stay of several years in Turkey followed her training.

Since 1993 she has been a member of the Künstlerhaus Wien. In addition to teaching, she works as an artist in Vienna. Her works are in public and private collections.

The distance to the real environment, to the concrete living space, is smaller in these "landscape" pictures by Erika Seywald than in her often large-format figure compositions. There color is placed in the picture without the influence of gravity, without defining an above or below, leaving the bodies in suspension ...