Photo by David Shaw

“I believe we need art that transcends the every day, promising joy and enchantment, uniting us.”

I am a Swiss-British painter and printmaker (*1971), based in Arisdorf, near Basel. Having grown up in the UK and spent eight years in Vienna, I bring a cross-cultural perspective to my exploration of belonging, nature and the unseen dimensions of the world. I seek to reveal the numinous and create spaces for wonder, beauty and deeper connection.

I see my practice as existing on a sliding scale: at times closely inspired by direct observation of nature, and at others moving gradually away from the outer eye into the inner eye. 

I move fluidly between media, from organic watercolour to oil painting and hand-pulled prints, choosing each material in response to what the work itself asks for.

Drawing is central to my practice, alongside my engagement with art philosophy. My work explores what it means to be a woman at a time of environmental change. I see reading, drawing and painting as interconnected forms of enquiry, finding both refuge and knowledge in the act of making.

Originally trained in printed textile design, my love of printmaking has rekindled. I am deeply committed to the handmade, embracing its imperfections.

I see creating art as akin to creating a cosmos in the finite, where every element of the composition is vital and alive. For me, art creates order from everything that is. It is a life-sustaining form of expression reconnecting us with imagination and ancient wisdom.

I developed my practice through independent study and international programmes, including the Royal Drawing School, the International Summer Academy Salzburg and the Turps Banana Summer Intensive. In 2025, I received a scholarship from the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg.

My work has been exhibited in Switzerland, the UK and Italy, with recent solo exhibitions at Restaurant Schwert in Thun and Zum Schmale Wurf in Basel, alongside group exhibitions at the Royal Drawing School in London and Galerie Atelier Mondial in Basel. Since 2018, I have also created monthly political cartoons for the Swiss newspaper Volksstimme. My commissions span painting, textile design, illustration and set design, including a design for Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna that was produced in a total of 60,000 mugs across two editions. I drew Graham Norton and Conchita Wurst live on BBC Radio 2 during Eurovision.

As Kandinsky wrote: “When the artist has outer and inner eyes for nature, it thanks him by inspiring him. It will lead us at last to cosmic feeling, to the music of the spheres.”

“We need art that opens us up to beauty and takes us by the hand like a friend.”

Sibylle Laubscher (*1971) is a Swiss-British painter and printmaker based in Arisdorf, near Basel. Having grown up in the UK and spent eight years in Vienna, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to her exploration of belonging, nature and the unseen dimensions of the world.

Influenced by animist thinking, mythology and the imaginal, Laubscher approaches nature as a living presence rather than a passive backdrop. Through atmospheric paintings and hand-pulled prints, she seeks to reveal the numinous and create spaces for wonder, beauty and deeper connection.

With a background in textile design and a longstanding interest in art philosophy, she has developed her practice through independent study and international programmes, including the Royal Drawing School, the International Summer Academy Salzburg and the Turps Banana Summer Intensive. In 2025, she received a scholarship from the Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg.

Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland, the UK and Italy, with recent solo exhibitions at Restaurant Schwert in Thun and Zum Schmale Wurf in Basel, alongside group exhibitions at the Royal Drawing School and Turps Banana in London and Galerie Atelier Mondial in Basel. Since 2017, she has also created monthly political cartoons for the Swiss newspaper Volksstimme. Her commissions span painting, textile design, illustration and set design, including a design for Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna that was produced in a total of 60,000 mugs across two editions. She drew live on BBC Radio 2 when the station was in Basel for Eurovision 2025. Graham Norton and Conchita Wurst were the guests -  both have a drawing.

A short film based on the roleplaying game Das Schwarze Auge (the German equivalent of Dungeons & Dragons) was filmed locally in 2025. Sibylle Laubscher was resident artist, documenting the “making of” and creating film props. Laubscher designed the film poster. Her drawings are featured in the end credits.

Laubscher works from her atelier and exhibition space in Arisdorf, near Basel, Switzerland.

“I have been accompanying Sibylle and her paintings for over 20 years - I see passion and a constant path to her own expression. Sibylle stays away from the vanity and arbitrariness of the art market. With her paintings, she expresses what she honestly sees and feels, beyond the fashion trends to which art is also subject.”
Ursula Burgy, collector