Ursi Lysser: Switzerland
Below: Ursi presents a group of torsos, representing people who left their homelands due to poverty or war. But as it so often happens, they are not always welcome, highlighted with body #5 positioned further to the left.
Ursi trained as a dressmaker in Olten where she was born. She has lived in Saudi Arabia and England and now resides and works in the county of Bern.
She has always been fascinated by structures and textures and decided to turn her passion with various workshops and CAS studies into her profession. For the past ten years, Ursi has experimented with building materials which she now includes in her work with encaustic, a 2,000-year-old painting technique she discovered about two years ago.
She enjoys exploring and mixing these various mediums, and also combining it with her 3D works of old wood, documents and metal, creating outstanding works that are not so often seen in Switzerland but indeed well received.
She has always been fascinated by structures and textures and decided to turn her passion with various workshops and CAS studies into her profession. For the past ten years, Ursi has experimented with building materials which she now includes in her work with encaustic, a 2,000-year-old painting technique she discovered about two years ago.
She enjoys exploring and mixing these various mediums, and also combining it with her 3D works of old wood, documents and metal, creating outstanding works that are not so often seen in Switzerland but indeed well received.