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Happy new year 2021... in artwork!

1/2/2021

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​Looking back on the year 2020, I realized with gratitude how much I was inspired for my series of paintings The Secret Place: Re-centering, Dance in the Rain, Rest, Transformation I and II, Celebration and Healing on which I'm currently working.
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Re-centering 
When everything stirs and shakes within us, when the uproar around us is deafening and destabilizing, a sheltered place, a secret place, an inalienable core remains deep in our soul. By refocusing on this place, re-centering on the essential of our being, where the Essential, the Supreme Being speaks to our heart, His peace can take over and invade us.
                                                       Dance in the Rain 
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain.” Seneca. Whatever the external circumstances, disasters natural or not, epidemics, economic fluctuations, and even relational difficulties and betrayals, we can dance, as protected in a bubble, not in ignorance and naivety, but a bubble of confidence in the One who loves us and will always be there for us.
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Transformation
The events that are happening to us become entangled and their superposition changes their color, their content, their intensity. Each of them changes our being, our character. They transform us little by little. We are currently in an airlock, a space where life as before will no longer be possible, and where external circumstances shape and transform us to allow us to apprehend the future differently and hopefully more healthily and serenely.
                                                              Transformation II
From the original blood-red, since birth, each colored 'line' represents an event over time. Some events in our life are negative and they darken it with sadness, but if we choose to learn from them, to find gold, and allow ourselves to be transformed by each of them - positive or negative, happy or unhappy - we can gradually regain our original purity. Painting to be ‘read’ from top to bottom.
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Rest
Babouches, which symbolize rest in the intimacy of our home. I dreamed of this painting at night, hence its somewhat ... incongruous appearance! Feathers, for comfort and lightness, on a Heaven blue background. We need physical rest, but also psychic, emotional rest. That rest that comes with the reassurance that we are not going through life alone. God never promised us that we would not have difficulties on this earth, but he did promise to always be by our side to face them.
                                                                         Celebration 
Life is worth celebrating, and even more so is the One who gave it to us! The profusion of confetti and multicolored streamers symbolizes the party, with music in the center, without which no party is worthy of the name! The music notes are the original sheet of the song 'Je te célèbre’ (I celebrate you) created by my friend Stéphanie Küffer (to listen to on Spotify or Deezer - album 'Je te célèbre' by the Blue Collectif - or an extract) and where I also sing. Each confetti is a matter of gratitude, joy and rejoicing! The three silver lines which come down from Heaven represent the Trinity.
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Healing 
​In progress when I ‘caught’ the famous coronavirus ... Irony of life! I am indeed healed, although going through this covid-19 was not easy at all! A picture of the painting will follow when finished...
 
But of course, let each of the paintings speak to you personally! Each of us has his own interpretation...
 
These are the choices that I am making and that I wish you to make in 2021: refocus on the Essential when everything is uproar in you and around you, dance in the rain despite the threats hanging over you, let you be transformed despite the impossibility of going back and being able to visualize what will be next, stay in rest in the One who loves you and cares for you, and with thankfulness, celebrate Life and the One who gives it!

Fullness of joy in 2021!
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Artistic process of valerieziehli.art (1st episode)

9/29/2020

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Several of you have asked me to explain more about my artistic process. It will take several blog posts as I have so much to say about it. At the same time, it is true that, if I paint, it is because it is difficult to put these things into words!
As described in the Process page, my artistic approach is, above all, the search for inspiration from the Divine. I receive a word, an impression, an atmosphere, colors, an emotion, an image… sometimes nothing. I do not necessarily begin with a sketch in my head or a ready-made image. Sometimes I draw a sketch, other times I begin with nothing more than a blank canvas. I choose the colors first, which defines an atmosphere and then I apply the different techniques. I let "things" rise up inside, as I say. I try to stay connected to the Divine. Ideas come as the tableau progresses. I am very slow in my work, in the way I compose my paintings. I let myself be inspired quietly. I also play a lot with the different elements before gluing them; I move them, I observe what pleases me, what comes out, the atmosphere that emerges. Everything I am going to describe to you now, I only saw and understood retrospectively, looking back at my finished paintings. I was not at all aware of it when I created them. It is by dint of seeing repetitions, gestures that come again and again naturally, shapes that seem to carry a symbolism - which belongs only to me! - that I began to ponder about it. My paintings reflect a certain conception of life and of its meaning and, without any doubt, of my  own spiritual quest and my inner representations.
 
My "symbolism"
 
- The atmosphere, the light
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Light is often found at the top of my paintings, as God and Heaven are commonly placed high up in the collective Western imagination (which is only a partial reflection of reality). It is accentuated by the contrast with the darker, lower part, that represents the earth, with its vicissitudes or, in any case, the daily realities in which humans struggle, we struggle. The light seeks to make its way through this opacity and to bring the Hope that it carries within it.

- Characters
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As a child psychiatrist, I cannot help but be interested in human beings! My paintings are therefore frequently populated by characters who, in most cases, are engaged in conversation together. Dialogue has a particularly important part. The God I know is an eminently relational God. This vertical relationship between Him and humans is symbolized in my creations by the characters' ascension upwards, becoming clearer as they approach and expose themselves to the Light. The horizontal dimension of the relationship between humans is symbolized by the fact that my characters are often in twos or threes, and that they discuss together, sometimes even help each other.

The “decryption” of watches and other shapes, cracks and collected objects will follow in a future post. This description should enable you to understand my creations with an even richer light. Of course, I remain convinced that the real richness lies in what each individual, you, what you see with your inner imagination and your own specific sensitivity!
​See you soon!
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Want a breath of fresh air? valerieziehli.art wishes to be inspiring…

7/1/2020

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The CoviD-19 crisis has had numerous unexpected consequences. Some of them, fortunately, are positive: my website valerieziehli.art is one of them. I took advantage of these weeks of semi-confinement to finally build it! A very painful torticollis followed during the past 2 months, due to a malposition in front of the computer for so many long hours. Alas, no gain without pain, as the old saying goes! So here it is, like a newborn baby, called to evolve, to be pampered, refined and updated.
I am also inaugurating this blog in order to share my passion for the arts in general: painting, of course, but also writing, sculpture, music and song, dance… I desire to deepen my reflection on creativity, the role of the arts and the artist in this world, the creative process, the link between spirituality and art, as well as giving you advice, sharing technical tips… in summary, tackling all kinds of subjects related to the arts.
For this first article, here is a simple poem that was inspired by the name of my studio. The name was certainly not chosen by chance. When I inaugurated it, shortly after the year 2000 in Morrens, it was a place reserved only for me, where I was able to catch my breath, far from the “soon-to-be-adolescent” triplets that agitated my home, a place of retreat and recharging my batteries, above all, a place of connection with the divine Breath.
 
Like a breath…
 
Like a breath, you come
Like a breath, you embrace me
Like a breath, you permeate me, you fill me up

Your Breath I hope, your Breath I long for
Your Breath I invoke, your Breath I wait for

Like a breath, you twirl
Like a breath, you whirl
Like a breath, you transform me, you shape me

Your Breath I await, your Breath I hear
Like a light breeze that revives my song
 
Your Breath draws me, your Breath stretches me
Your Breath I long, your Breath I inhale

In your Breath, I let myself be immersed
By your Breath, I am quieted

You hug me, you embrace me
You affirm me, confirm me

Sharing Breath, centering Breath

Like a pause in my life,
Recreational pause, creative pause
Re-creative pause...
 
Will you come along with me on this journey of reflection and discovery which, like the carrier pigeon that I am, might also make some detours through distant lands?
I hope so and, until we meet again in a future blog post, I would like to take you by the hand, to explore and visit the valerieziehli.art website together, hoping that this will enthuse and inspire you...
Don't forget to leave your email address in the box on the side, to find out more! See you soon!
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