Esther Huser

Esther Huser was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1961. In her young adulthood she spent a decade working as a navigator on offshore sailboats and then pursued higher education, earning an MA from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, PhD from the University of Fribourg, and a Master of advanced studies degree at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her works have been exhibited across Europe and the United States. She has won numerous awards including 1st place painting at at the 13th International fine art competition ‘Premio Arte Laguna’ in Venice, Italy, Second prize in The Artist's Magazine's 2015 Annual Competition, Second Place (Landscape) in the International Artist Magazine competition (2018) and an Honorable Mention (Landscape Category) with her depiction of a cabbage field in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.

Esther Huser has an image in her mind that she strives to recreate. They are not just ideas; they are elaborate and complex visions. Having found that she was dissatisfied with painting from photos and also dissatisfied with painting from life, she discovered a new way of conceptualizing her works. She has an unusual process of taking thousands of photos and then compiling exceptionally small pieces of these images on the computer into one singular vision, in order to create her own world. This process takes months before she even picks up a brush. Verging on obsession, she searches in nature and in her creations for an emotion, that she has describes as “something like a longing” she says she does not know what this longing is for, but that she hopes one-day she will full-fill this craving for more nature and create a visualization of a perfect world.

 

* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 16^th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.