Gabrielle Graessle

Gabrielle Graessle (°1956) was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and has been fascinated by painting and drawing since she was a child. She attended Zurich Art School for 5 years, where she completed a degree in graphic design. Her first exhibitions took place while she was still a student. During this time, she made mainly black and white charcoal drawings spontaneously depicting her personal imagery. For 15 years, she was represented by various galleries in Switzerland. Many of her charcoal drawings hang in private and public collections. At the beginning of 2000, she and her partner immigrated to France and later to Spain, where they built and redesigned old houses. For years, they moved from one renovation project to the next. At that time, her means of expression were mainly drawings and sketchbooks. In 2015, she settled down in Andalusia. It was here that she decided to immerse herself completely in her imaginary world again and to express herself in a new way-through large format, coloured, intuitive, and figurative paintings, a significant evolution in her artistic journey. 

Her studio is in a group of old cottages in nowhere. There are no distractions, and she can fully concentrate on her work in a secluded natural setting. There, she works on several canvases simultaneously, creating multiple paintings. At the same time, drawings are still essential to her work. These are spontaneous expressions of her thoughts and stories. They are often the starting point for her paintings. In 2020, she restarted to present her art at art fairs in Barcelona and Madrid and participated in group shows in Germany and France.