Born in Switzerland
living and working in Zürich
mediums: painting tradition, mixed media
Sibylle Brodbeck has been working as Graphic Designer and Art Director for many years in London and Zürich. During a timeout in New York, she started experimenting with drawings and her love of expressing herself through painting led her to join a studio collective at the Arts Students League of New York. She says: “It was then that I realised I had to draw, because I need to. It is a liberation and the most authentic form of expression.” Since then she has been a practicing artist. Sibylle is always building the surface, changing direction and rearranging to explore the space on the canvas the drawing comes alive and starts to move. Each work tells a story and aims to evoke a feeling. A constant process on a journey that never ends. Sibylle describes her style of painting as characterized by nature. Her pieces are always engaging with organic forms. Sibylle appreciates visual elements of the natural world that she finds along the way and from which she derives her formal vocabulary. The viewer is invited to see their own interpretations, a kind of mind game. Timeless, without a specific cultural reference or movement, yet reminding us of the natural phenomenon and sometimes ourselves. Sibylle works with acrylic, charcoal and collage mostly on canvas. The palette ranges from explosions of vibrant colors combined with delicate shades and confident lines. The application of paint is made visible through the brushstrokes and marks left behind. Current inspiration comes from Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning, Constructivism Artists Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncusi.
living and working in Zürich
mediums: painting tradition, mixed media
Sibylle Brodbeck has been working as Graphic Designer and Art Director for many years in London and Zürich. During a timeout in New York, she started experimenting with drawings and her love of expressing herself through painting led her to join a studio collective at the Arts Students League of New York. She says: “It was then that I realised I had to draw, because I need to. It is a liberation and the most authentic form of expression.” Since then she has been a practicing artist. Sibylle is always building the surface, changing direction and rearranging to explore the space on the canvas the drawing comes alive and starts to move. Each work tells a story and aims to evoke a feeling. A constant process on a journey that never ends. Sibylle describes her style of painting as characterized by nature. Her pieces are always engaging with organic forms. Sibylle appreciates visual elements of the natural world that she finds along the way and from which she derives her formal vocabulary. The viewer is invited to see their own interpretations, a kind of mind game. Timeless, without a specific cultural reference or movement, yet reminding us of the natural phenomenon and sometimes ourselves. Sibylle works with acrylic, charcoal and collage mostly on canvas. The palette ranges from explosions of vibrant colors combined with delicate shades and confident lines. The application of paint is made visible through the brushstrokes and marks left behind. Current inspiration comes from Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning, Constructivism Artists Jean Arp and Constantin Brâncusi.