ABOUT ME?
Claudine Grisel was born in Fleurier, Canton de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1943. She spent the best part of her childhood in a vast garden and in the wilds.
From a cultivated and open-minded background, Claudine discovered Prague, Paris and London thanks to her parents as well as Greece, Etruria and Asia Minor with their friends. However deeply attached to her Jura land, Claudine considers herself a citizen of the world. A native French speaker, Claudine is fluent in German and speaks a little English
GOLDEN BOOK
Her universe is that of myth, of which she is the sensitive demiurge. She works it and transforms it according to her sensibility. Through transcended light, she brings the time of dreams to our eyes. See an extract from Billets d’Art by François L. Speranza, collection 4 published by Editions d’Art EAG Bruxelles.
Consult the Visitors’ Book
A VISIT TO THE ARTIST?
Would you like to discover recent works? Contact the artist to arrange a visit to his Atelier Musée on:
+41 (0) 79 507 59 73
ADDRESS:
Quartier du Pont 12
2123 St-Sulpice (NE)
HISTORY
After her studio in Hauterive (NE) from 1969 to 1983, her studio in Bremgarten (AG)
from 1983 to 1990, her studio in Fleurier (NE) from 1990 to 2017.
She opened her fourth and very large studio in St-Sulpice (NE) at the end of 2017, the Atelier-Musée communicating with her home in the Pont 12 district.
BIOGRAPHY
After passing her ‘baccalauréat’ and obtaining a teacher’s degree, Claudine became an Art teacher. She is currently teaching at various levels in several institutions in Cantons de Neuchâtel and Argovie. She has also regularly been exhibiting her works since 1973.
Claudine’s inspiration is both 2-dimensional (paintings, collages, etchings, mixed techniques) and 3-dimensional (reinforced plaster or wax sculptures later cast in bronze as well as paper or acryl glue sculptures). She collaborates to the founder’s task by touching up the wax or chiselling the bronze.
Claudine Grisel’s smaller sculptures are works in themselves but can also be seen as small-scale models for 2- to 3-metre-high sculptures.
Claudine has a daughter born in 1984 and is widowed since 2005.
Claudine Grisel, who is as fascinated by psychology and personal development as she is by art, is steadily opening onto the world and progressing towards liberation and light.
