Here is the new illustrations for the Magazine "Lebenslust Emmental", summer and autumn 2025 issues

 

A canopy collapses on the pulpit at the end of a sermon...new illustration for Sandra Rutschi's new story about proverbs. This time it's about "Alle Gute kommt von oben" (All good things come from above). The story is really beautiful and funny, especially in the ending :-)

Thanks as always to Marie-Claire Hofstetter, Torfinn Rothenbuehler and Sandra Rutschi for their trust. 

Here is the cover of the autumn issue of Lebenslust Emmental and the illustration for Sandra Rutschi's new short story: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". 

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

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). 

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

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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