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!

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

 

A woodcutter screaming towards a snowy forest: here is the illustration for the new short story by Sandra Rutschi "As you call into the forest, it echoes out". Many thanks to the suggestions and precious Art Direction of Marie-Claire Hofstetter!

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.

"Anastasias Geheimnis" (Anastasia's secret), illustrations for the story about Anastasia von Signau (by Verena Zuercher, Landverlag)

The cover of the book project "Anastasias Geheimnis. Eine mittelalterliche Raetselgeschichte", by the author Verena Zuercher, published by Landverlag. A short tale about the young Lady from Signau which leads schoolchildren hikers to the historical places of her story. Lots of black and white ink illustrations. 

On the "variant" cover, Anastasia in front of Burgdorf Castle

One of the color covers among the many black and white ink line drawings...

 One of the line drawings: a medieval gold digger along the river Emme (did you know that already for the Celts and then throughout the Middle Ages the river Emme was very coveted by gold diggers?)

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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 ...
 

The original illustration for the cover of the book "Bildung beginnt in der Natur". And some other landscape, nature and wildlife illustrations for the book

The Book, just printed, next to some original artworks

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!

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

It's ready! The new book by Verena Zürcher, with my illustrations

                                                "BILDUNG BEGINNT IN DER NATUR" 
                              ("Education begins in Nature": Nature-education discovery trips)
                                             You can browse a preview of the book here:
                                     https://www.waldschulkinder.ch/lehrmittel/sachbuch/
                                          Here are the photos of a couple of my illustrations:

European river landscape with trout and alpine newt

 Central European forest with owl, roe deer and great spotted woodpecker

Detail of the hand painted illustration 

Alpine coniferous forest with jay

And a review (from the back cover) by the famous wildlife photographer, and Bestseller author,

Frank Hecker, on the beautiful book by Verena Zürcher: 

"Ich bin schwer beeindruckt vom Umfang und von der Vielfältigkeit der Herangehensweise. Das gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut, erweitert meinen vielleicht zu biologischen Blick auf die Natur und macht im jeden Fall Lust auf genaueres Lesen. Die Illustrationen sind klasse. Ein tolles Buch."

("I am deeply impressed by the width and variety of the approach. I like that very much, it expands my perhaps too biological view of nature and definitely makes you want to read more deeply. The illustrations are marvellous. A wonderful book." The translation from the German is mine.)

The December issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" (with my illustations)!

Juniper

European Badger among the Junipers 

Artwork and Magazine side by side

The new issue of "Lebenslust Emmental" with my illustrations

  The September issue of "Lebenslust Emmental", 
 dedicated to lingonberry, next to my illustrations on the drawing board

The lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Preiselbeere)

The western Capercaillie

A typical recipe for lingonberry, jam

New illustrations published in "Lebenslust Emmental"

The cover of the Magazine, March 2019

New illustrations: a hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), a hazel branch (and other), published in the Swiss magazine "Lebenslust Emmental", dedicated to the beautiful valley near Bern.
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