ABOUT THE ARTIST
The greatest and most beautiful amazement is when I discover how much can be created from so little
where almost nothing can become everything
The Swiss alpine artist Deborah Kressebuch has been painting since she was a child, studied art in Switzerland and England at Bath Spa University and painted her first series of mountain landscapes in 2012, back then with blue acrylic.
She has pursued alpine themes to date, initially inspired by the wild areas of Graubünden, shaped by long journeys and today passionately connected to the Zermatt high mountains near the Matterhorn with its black-nosed sheep.
On a trip to Cape Town with an art commission for a guesthouse in 2018, she began making pigments from local rocks and using them for her works. Since then, making her paints from pigments has replaced her acrylic painting and since 2022 she has been looking for the wonderful color tones of the Matterhorn, which she uses for her works.
Deborah Kressebuch chooses places and activities where she can live an adventurous, simple and challenging life as an artist and nature lover, where almost nothing can become anything. She makes a living from her art, paints series for exhibitions, creates personal pictures within her themes on commission, creates large-scale murals and occasionally teaches art and design. In her life, one thing flows into the other:
Through a mural commission in Zermatt, she became a shepherdess on the Gornergrat. This in turn led her to make her pigments from the fascinating rocks that she collected while shepherding. And at the same time, she was deeply in love with the special black-nosed sheep and began to paint them. Friendships led to invitations to spend time in the studio in Mexico, Portugal and Italy, and the commission to create snow sculptures in Zermatt, which arose from the summer in the Alps, in turn led to a summer in the studio in the Zermatt mountains.
Deborah Kressebuch lives in the southern Dolomites. There she is renovating her 100-year-old stone house with time and her own craftsmanship, authentically following the local building tradition. She is letting it grow into her home and an art space for her own artistic work, with the vision of offering studio residencies for other artists in the future.
For the artist Deborah Kressebuch there are no limits, she lives every day for her visions and passions, everything is possible from almost nothing, that is where the happiness and joy of every moment lies.
Making pigments from rocks, her color from the pigments, her works from the color and her lives from the works. Deborah Kressebuch climbs uphill and swims against the current, she sails the winds of life's dynamics and surfs the waves of events, that is her art.
Fotografie von Remo Buess, Sommer 2021