Artist statement

My paintings are a tribute to nature and the landscapes surrounding me. Mountains and lakes in Switzerland. Trees, flowers and leaves. The ever-changing light during a day, a season, a year. Moments and fragments captured in my notebooks, reborn as colorful improvisations on canvas. As inner images, nourished by memory and the tradition of landscape painting in western art. 

 I am working in cycles and series, such as 365-days: one day - one painting (30 x 100 cm each, acrylic on canvas). To create an homage to every day, remembering an instant, a color, an emotion of this day. Such as the discovery of the infinite variations of the ginkgo leaf. 

As a further step in the painting process, I recompose the 365 paintings within triptychs and polyptychs, exploring harmonies, dissonances, rhythms and contrasts. Creating new compositions, where representation alternates with abstraction (influenced by color field painting). Spaces in-between, out of focus, suggest inner spaces beyond the picture frame. Always believing in the transformative power of colors.