A play of form and color

It is hard to grasp, yet the tremendous fascination emanating from the paintings of Swiss artist Eveline Stauffer is almost physically present. A few, strictly reduced elements determine the composition of the picture, while a striking choice of colors gives them a power all their own. The precisely elaborated forms are often sharply contoured, but at the same time softly embedded by shadows, overlays and gradients. This creates an exciting contrast between authoritative power and playful lightness, a fragile equilibrium, finely calibrated in the balance of color and form.

The works are created with acrylic and pigment, watercolor and ink, mostly on canvas or a special paper that the artist tracked down in Italy. Although the forms often appear flat and striking, they are nevertheless delicately worked out, modeled line by line with a small brush. Stauffer often works in series, approaching a form from different perspectives, exploring the richness of variations of the individual form in the resonance of unique color worlds. In this way, she has succeeded in developing her very own, concise formal language, which gives her works a high recognition value and has already helped them to find their way into numerous international collections.

Learn more about the artist: Eveline Stauffer's artist page