„My sentiments influence the form, my enthusiasm the brush strokes and my passion the colours“
The unique experience of the fresh sea breeze, the wide countryside and the mediterranean sunlight
at my home in southern Spain inspires my creative flow.
Sandra Schawalder was born and grew up in Switzerland. Her talent for drawing and painting was discovered and encouraged early. She graduated from the Arno Stern Academy in Paris and the Arsa Art School Aarau in Switzerland. As a professional Swiss woman artist, she is a member of the SSWA the Swiss Society of Woman Artists of the Visual Arts. She is based in Switzerland and Spain.
Works full of stillness, harmony and light. Sandra Schawalder is a delicate and sensitive artist, who is highly concentrated at work.
She needs silence and emotional consistency to realise her inner works, which intuitively follow her feelings. This mirror of her soul is at the same time the visual interpretation of her experiences and feelings in everyday life that are characterised by Mediterranean light and colour tones. She creates her paintings with colours, surfaces and shapes, complemented by impulsive drawing gestures and structured with striking brush strokes. These serene, harmonious works, vibrating with spherical sounds, touch the viewer at the core.
Represented by national and international galleries, museums, art fairs and houses of culture. Her works can be seen in international public institutions as well as in private art collections and have been awarded by national and international art prizes.
Text by Dr. Daniela U. Ball, Art Historian, Switzerland
2023
Gallery am Lindenhof Zurich „SPARKLING MOMENTS“ Switzerland
2022
Gallery Arrigoni Cham 9th Zuger Art Night with Elso Schiavo CH
2021
Hirslanden Clinic in the Park Zurich Switzerland
2020
Gallery L. Leuebrueggli Langenthal with Sammy Deichmann CH
Arte Borgo Gallery Rome Italy
Stadtgalerie Kitz Art Kitzbühel with Rudolf Pigneter Austria
2019
Gallery Arrigoni Cham with Elso Schiavo Switzerland
Gallery Steiner Wien Austria
Stadtgalerie Kitz Art Kitzbühel with Rudolf Pigneter Austria
Gallery M Beck Durbach bei Offenburg Germany
2018
Gallery Arrigoni Cham 7th Zuger Art Night Switzerland, Catalogue
Gallery Tranter-Sinni Miami United Staates
Gallery Art Clipper Helsinki Finland
2017
Kirsten Kjaer Museum Frostrup Denmark (Artist in Residence)
Gallery Artefix Sempach Switzerland
Gallery M Beck Homburg Germany, Catalogue
2016
Gallery M Beck Homburg Germany
2015
Gallery Artefix Sempach Switzerland
Montreux Art Gallery 11éme Salon d’art contemporain Switzerland
2011
Gallery Atelier 497 Kunst am See Zurich Switzerland
2010
Art International Zurich Switzerland
2008
Gallery Art 4 Anglikon with Kurt Brügger Switzerland
2004
Theater Rigiblick Zurich Switzerland
2022
Casa Serodine Ascona "Connected in Art“ Switzerland, Catalogue
New Gallery 6 Aarau „Fünf Klang“ Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zofingen „Color and Dream“ Switzerland
2021
Federal Parliament Bern "50 Years of Women Suffrage" Switzerland
Monastery Kappel am Albis „Kappeler Milk Soup" Switzerland
Hirslanden Clinic in the Park Zurich Switzerland
2020
Bellini Museum Florence Italy
Crocetti Museum Rome Italy
San Vidal Art Center Venice Italy (Arte Borgo Gallery Rome)
2019
Museum St. Johann in Tirol Austria
Gallery M Beck Homburg Germany
Colorida Art Gallery Lisbon Portugal
2018
Kunsthaus Zofingen „Dialog“ Switzerland
Gallery Artefix Sempach Switzerland
Fabrik der Künste Hamburg Germany (Gallery Ewa Helena Hamburg)
Colorida Art Gallery Lisbon Portugal
2017
Gallery Ewa Helena Hamburg Germany
2016
Gallery Art Clipper Helsinki Finland
2015
Gallery Artefix Sempach Switzerland
Nina Torres Fine Art Miami United Staates, Catalogue
2014
Gallery Artefix Sempach Switzerland
2013
The Brick Lane Gallery London England
2012
Nina Torres Fine Art Miami United Staates, Catalogue
2010
Singisenforum Kulturstiftung St. Martin Muri „K10 Art Scene Freiamt" CH
2008
Pfalzkeller Regierungsgebäude St. Gallen Switzerland
Gallery Del Mese Meisterschwanden Switzerland
2006
Gallery Art 4 Anglikon "Art Freiamt" CH (First Prize Award Art Freiamt)