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.
Bio
Swiss artist born in Geneva, lives and works in the Alps and Montreux
Education
Lic. phil. (Master) Ethnology, University of Zürich
Diplom Visual Art/Painting, University of Fine Arts ESAV/HEAD, Geneva
Postgraduate studies at the University for Applied Arts, Wien (Prof. Maria Lassnig)
Doctorate (Dissertation on Art-Therapy), University Witten-Herdecke/Germany
Solo & group exhibitions (since 1986)
Botanical drawings (1986-2001)
Art-therapy (1994-2002) in hospitals in Germany
Teaching & research & interdisciplinary art projects (since 1989)
Universität Bern, City of Zürich, Volkshochschulen Zürich & Winterthur & freelance
Memberships
Schweizerische Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen SGBK
Artistes Visuels Vaud AVV
Private P'Arts
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