A new book illustrated entirely by me is in the works! "Die Hexe Quendel". Coming Soon

 

The book cover: text by Baerner Rose, illustrations by me

This children's book is a wonderful story of magic, solitude, self-confidence, and self-esteem set in Nature. The protagonist is the young witch Quendel and her Cat. The bilingual text is in Standard German and Bernese-Swiss German. It's a must-have. It's a project I've been deeply involved in for months: a project I'm particularly passionate about and into which I'm pouring my whole heart!

As always, I thank Verena Zuercher and Landverlag for this wonderful opportunity.

Landverlag Langnau, Switzerland

Anyone interested and wanting to pre-order it (I hope it's successful, Verena and I are putting all our passion and dedication into it 😊) can do so on the Buchhaus Bookshop website:www.buchhaus.ch

Some illustrations among those published in various issues of the beautiful Swiss Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental Magazin"

The illustration published in the new issue of the Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental" number 65, autumn 2024.

The illustration is for Sandra Rutschi's beautiful new short story "Die Baeume wachsen nicht in den Himmel" ("The trees don't grow into the sky").

The Magazine is always beautiful with wonderful photos: it is impossible not to want to immerse yourself in the wonderful landscapes, villages and woods of the Bernese Emmental!

           A  Bernese Mountain Dog and some illustrations of botanical essences and flowers

Illustration of wildflowers (poppy, dandelion, red clover, plantain, bromes ... among others)

Semolina pudding (Griessbrei), with recipe and ingredients (cinnamon!), for the short story by Sandra Rutschi

The original paintings for the illustrations (always painted in watercolor and gouache on Arches paper) next to the Magazine

Some photos taken in the field looking for the wildflowers for the illustration

Welcome autumn!

A centenary oak in an autumn forest. The small fauna that lives around the old tree ... For Campus Natur - Landverlag

A book entirely dedicated to the discovery of the nature of the Alps, the woods, their inhabitants and environments. An always valid gift: "BILDUNG BEGINNT IN DER NATUR" - Ein kleiner Tipp für ein schönes Geschenk? Das Buch "Bildung beginnt in der Natur" von Verena Zürcher!

"Bildung beginnt in der Natur" (auf dem Foto das Buch neben einigen meiner Originalillustrationen) kann in den besten physischen und Online-Buchhandlungen in der Schweiz und in Deutschland gefunden oder bestellt werden! Ausführliche Informationen auf der Verlagsseite des Landverlags

https://www.landverlag.ch/

"Bildung beginnt in der Natur - Education begins in nature"(the book in the photo next to some of my original illustrations) can be found or ordered in the best physical and online bookstores in Switzerland and Germany! Detailed information on the publisher's website of the Landverlag

Hier einige der zahlreichen im Buch veröffentlichten Illustrationen: Eine Fuchsfamilie, ein Waldiltis auf einer Bergwiese und ein Detail einer Eule im Mischwald.

Here are some of the numerous illustrations published in the book: A fox family, a polecat in a mountain meadow and a detail of an owl in a mixed forest.

Autumn, red deer bellowing season (Hirschbrunftzeit bei Schloss Trachselwald). Ink sketch

                   It is autumn, a male deer bellows, in front of the beautiful Trachselwald castle.

Spring in Bern (and its magnificent surroundings)

I would like to welcome spring with a couple of paintings dedicated to the season and to Bern and its region: a wonderful city and an infinitely beautiful landscape. A place of my heart, which I miss a lot.

A barn swallow (Hirundo rustica, Schwalbe) and a house martin (Delichon urbicum, Mehlschwalbe) sitting on the Nydegg bridge, near the church, in a spring view of Bern. From here you can see the gothic Nydeggkirche and its beautiful medieval quarter, with Nydeggstalden street going down, between seventeenth-century houses, towards the banks of the Aare river

(Hand)Drawing in progress, pencil on Arches watercolour paper, cold pressed, 100% cotton 

Illustration of a riparian wood in spring (with its inhabitants) painted for the Landverlag Publishing house of Langnau in the Emmental

New! Floral illustrations for the Publisher Sonah Verlag

   First illustration: wild mallow, cuckoo flower and elderflower (and butterflies)

Second illustration: lily of the valley, forget-me-not, a couple of field herbs (e.g. wild oats), common daisy (and a new couple of butterflies)

Third illustration: field poppy, tansy and marguerite (instead of butterflies, or butterfly and moth, this time a bumblebee). 

An original watercolour illustration alongside the three greeting cards

Here are the new floral-themed  illustrations for the publisher Sonah Verlag. Many thanks as always to Ms. Anika Meyer for her valuable advice and Art Direction!

The illustrations are published on wonderful greeting cards and  represent local floral essences, accompanied by refined captions with their names in the dialect of the Saarland region, and a series of information - on the back of the cards - on each botanical species.

You can see and find them here, on the Sonah website Sonah Verlag and Magazine and Blumengrüße auf Saarländisch – Gruß-/Glückwunschkarte

If I can afford some advice and opinion to friends who live in Germany, I'd say run and buy the Magazine "Sonah Magazin", it's wonderful, don't miss it! ;-) 

Riedlingen on the Danube, art, nature and beautiful storks

This is a memory of a summer evening in Riedlingen, a small town along the course of a still young Danube, with splendid half-timbered houses in a truly remarkable natural landscape. Riedlingen is located on the German Framework Road and is one of the few towns where storks have never stopped nesting since time immemorial.

In the drawing, in addition to the storks, you can also see a sandpiper, a beautiful common tern (Sterna hirundo) and rare salmon from the Danube, or Huchen. 

 

New illustration for "Lebenslust Emmental Magazin", issue summer 2022

Partially two-page illustration for Sandra Rutschi's new short story "Wer einen Sumpf trockenlegen will, darf nicht die Froesche fragen".

The wonderful cover of "Lebenslust Emmental", which reflects the beautiful landscapes of this enchanting region.

It's spring! The new seasonal illustration for Campus Natur - Landverlag!

A "Moor" (wetland) of Alpine Europe in spring. With some of its inhabitants: beaver, water rail, little egret, kingfisher, lapwing, butterflies and dragonflies, eriophorum/cottongrass ...
 

On the new spring issue of the magazine "Lebenslust Emmental"

Illustration for the new story by Sandra Rutschi: "Kleinvieh macht auch Mist"

                                                           

A small selection of original paintings with landscapes, skies and birds

 

Some original paintings (watercolour and gouache on Arches 100% cotton paper) on the drafting table.

The most recent painting: a Tengmalm's owl - Boreal owl (Raufusskauz) in a snowy sunset (in the background a timber-framed Low German House or Fachhallenhaus). 

The medieval lakeside town of Rapperswil (in gray tones)

 

I have not yet managed to complete an old painting with Rapperswil and its lake fauna as I wanted, but at least ... here is a slightly modified version in the grey tones of ink and graphite. With two kingfisher in the foreground and a glimpse of light on the city in the background (glimpse of light I saw on another beautiful lake ... but that's another story, for a future painting). 

North Sea Coast

A view of the North Sea Coast: Atlantic puffins, terns, seals and traditional thatched roof houses.

 

New illustrations for the new "Lebenslust Emmental" magazine: Beavers in Switzerland (and more)

 

       

                

Explanatory illustration of a Beaver's Lodge, with its interior, the various entrances under the water surface, the surrounding environment. Published in "Lebenslust Emmental" of March 2021 with an article on European beavers in Switzerland and the Emmental.

The cover of the spring issue of the magazine and, next to it, the small illustration published to accompany the novel of the Author Sandra Rutschi (I am happy to have also been able to collaborate with the new direction of the Magazine!).

Lebenslust Emmental Magazin

Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!

I am truly honored and happy to have been able to create, in these years, illustrations published in the high quality magazines of the publisher Landverlag and in the beautiful book "Bildung beginnt in der Natur". Now I have also had the opportunity to create a new illustration dedicated to Christmas in a Swiss winter landscape. Thank you very much!

Issue 50 of "Lebenslust Emmental" with my new illustrations

Bullfinch and sea buckthorn in a winter landscape

                                                                                                                      

The painted artworks and the "Lebenslust Emmental" Magazine. 

The December issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" Magazine with the article on the thousand virtues of sea buckthorn.

 

New illustrations! Published in the September issue of Lebenslust Emmental Magazine

 

Cornelian Cherry - Kornelkirsche

Detail of the illustration with dormouse and cornelian cherries

Charlotte with cornelian cherry jam