About The Artist

BIOGRAPHY ASTRID BAENZIGER SWITZERLAND Born in 1965, Astrid Baenziger grew up with 5 older siblings in Appenzell, Switzerland. She is a trained certified technical operation assistant and trained qualified social worker. In addition to these professional challenges she has worked as an artist for a number of years. Starting with drawing comics, she has expanded widely to an intensive examination of various techniques of acrylic painting and collage technique. Colourful flowergardens, nature themes, poems written on paintings, clotheslines, the fragility of human being etc. are her frontrunners. For some years now, she has shown her works of art in various individual and collective exhibitions. In Automne she showed the first time in ART BIENNALE FLORENCE, Italy. Astrid Baenziger is an autodidact. She lives with her family in Berne, Switzerland. „My images are designed through their colours and their representations to conjure happiness, to elicit a smile in the beholder, and are now and then seen with a wink! The images are life, devotion and joy of life.“