Save the Date
A studio update, upcoming exhibitions, and reflections on being nature
Hello from the studio. This afternoon I share an invitation to visit, a glimpse into some new work, a course I made for you (you may skip to the end for this), and a few personal reflections.
You are invited: Open Studio, 30–31 May
Over the past few months, I have been making work quietly. Much of what you will see was born from my ongoing exploration of what it means to be nature. I don’t mean simply to be in nature, but to understand myself as part of it.
More on this below. But first, before we forget, please save these dates.
🌳 Open Studio: 30–31 May, 3–6pm
Art, drinks, and nibbles at
Gallery-Studio BB
Place de la Cure 5
1873 Val-d’Illiez, Switzerland
If you would like to visit outside these hours, feel free to send me a WhatsApp at +41 76 453 03 10.
Check out a little teaser HERE
🌳 Online Collectors’ Room: 28 May to 1 June
For five days, the online Collectors’ Room will open for viewing and reservations of available works. More on this soon.
🌳 Virtual Studio Visit — Sunday 31 May, 2pm CET
For those of you who are far away and would still like to visit, I will host a 30-minute live studio tour on Zoom.
Please join Brindusa’s Zoom a few minutes before the hour.
Enough of Separation
You may remember that my work last year was profoundly shaped by my encounter with a 268-year-old Tree that was felled here in my Swiss Alpine village. To say that it changed my life would not be an exaggeration.
After last autumn’s solo show, The Tree and I continued to work together, in spirit.
I know some of you may find that impossible, but I can only tell you truthfully that this is how it felt.
Having to say goodbye to The Tree after the exhibition was heartbreaking. Working with the rings, the timber, the branches, the imagery, and listening to the stories people shared about The Tree, made me realise I had been working with something more than a natural material - with a presence.
A person, perhaps.
Or at least, a being.
And so I began asking myself more seriously:
When we say that humans are nature, what do we actually mean?
Writer David Abram speaks of a “commonwealth of breath,” a beautiful expression for the invisible continuity between our selves and the living world. Quantum notions of entanglement also help me imagine how space, time, and existence overlap across beings.
I am myself.
And I am also everything that allows me to exist.
If you removed air, water, plants, animals, minerals, would you still be you?
Perhaps what we call “the world” only becomes real when we stop long enough to pay attention to it.
So I choose to look carefully.
I choose to look at beauty.
I choose to look at trees.
And in doing so, nature, and people too, begin to appear again as something extraordinary. Something worthy of love, care, and protection.
The Tree taught me that we are never truly alone.
We are felt. We are held. We belong to one another.
“Our hands imbibe like roots. So I place them on what is beautiful in this world.” - St. Francis of Assisi
The Tree bench (“Toujours avec toi”, 2025) now belongs to the village of Val-d’Illiez. If you walk up to Frâchette, on your way to Champoussin, do say hello.
A few other beautiful things to share
🌳 I was invited to become affiliated with the new Musée Artistes Femmes in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded by Dr Marie Bagi, art historian, and inaugurated this March, the museum seeks to address the representation gap in women’s art. I feel deeply honoured to join such an inspiring group of artists.
🌳 Galerie Grande Fontaine and Galerie Les Dilettantes in Sion, Switzerland have invited me to participate in a collective exhibition this autumn. Entitled Lieux communs, a title rich with meanings, the exhibition will run from 19 September to 7 November, with a vernissage on 18 September.
🌳 And last but not least: next month I will once again teach my online sensory drawing class. It is a course for the kind of people who collect stones, textures, shadows, and little moments. I teach drawing the way I experience nature - slowly, sensorially, intuitively.
Imagine drawing after listening to the forest for ten minutes with your eyes closed.
And no, you do not need to know how to draw. This is not about performance. If you feel called to slow down, soothe stress, and reconnect with your sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and intuition, you can sign up here to receive more information. Recordings will be available for participants.
Until soon,
And thank you for being here.
Stay centered. 🌳
Brindusa