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

New illustration for the spring issue of the Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental"

 

For the new story by Sandra Rutschi here is my new illustration: an old house in the architectural style of the Bernese countryside, with a garden and... a blooming rose, hidden behind a rose bush.

It was a special joy to paint this illustration, because it combined my passion for typical architecture with that for cottage gardens. Thanks as always to Marie-Claire Hofstetter, Torfinn Rothenbuehler, and Sandra Rutschi for their trust!

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