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Painting at 2100m above sea level
I am looking forward to spending a week in Graubünden from Saturday, painting on an alp 2100m above sea level in the Safiental. I have been lucky to be able to do this for several years now. Its absolutely wonderful. I will be adding my collection "Mountain Worlds" to my webshop in August/September. Let me know if you want a sneak peak!Read more →My journey to becoming an artist
I am deadly serious about being an artist. It is a world still governed by men. My art is female. I am a woman. However, is it any less valuable for that? The pressure to conform to life as a woman - concentrate on your home, your children - is huge and comes from women just as much as from men. Especially in rural Switzerland. To want to succeed as a female artist is not really something anyone would gladly own up to - the first question I am always posed is, "can you make a living from it?" Would you ask a male artist this? Can I as a female artist paint flowers? Or am I then conforming to being a woman?
So thank you for reading this, thank you for supporting a female artist.
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