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andrea courvoisier
Andrea Courvoisier grew
up in Basel, Switzerland. As a little girl, one of her great loves was looking
at photographs of people from all over the world, particularly at faces, and
their many expressions of different feelings. She also loved drawing and
painting faces on paper and had a fun making faces herself. Much later, in 1994
during her study time in the USA, Andrea started painting and drawing again,
with the same love for expressive faces and figures.
In her work, Andrea
humourously and compassionately expresses her fascination with relationships of
all kinds, be it relationships between people, between different parts of
oneself, to the earth, animals, the sky and the divine. Andrea likes to
meditate on the "spaces in between", to pay attention to the unsual,
to momentary moods, emotions, body feelings, visions, dreams, prayers and
yearnings, from which her art evolves.
In addition to three
public exhibitions and several publications of her art in books and magazines,
Andrea also created drawings and comic strips for business, including website
illustration.
Andrea lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
publications and works
2011
Selling of t-shirts with the drawing
„free hugs“ (Drawings II) u.a.,
printed by Friederike Leuenberger, Durchdruck, Münchenstein.
2010
Publication of a drawing as book
cover for Joseph Goodbread's Befriending Conflict, Harmonic
Processes, USA.
2006
Developing and sale of self-help tool
"Spaceout-Queen"/"Spaceout-King" (Drawings II).
2006
Website comic strip commissioned by Yves
Stöcklin, Basel, Switzerland.
www.clownschule.ch
2004
Publication of a drawing in the Swiss
magazine "Spuren", Spring, Nr. 71.
2003
Set of drawings commissioned by
Astrodienst, Switzerland, for a new graphic design of their relationship
horoscope by Liz Greene.
2003
Publication of a drawing in the Swiss
magazine "Spuren", Autumn, Nr. 69.
2002
Self-publishing and printing of a set of
21 drawings on cards; Birth of logo and company name - gracefool-comix.
2002
Two paintings chosen by the "Gender
Equality Office" in Basel, Switzerland to honor the recipients of the
"Award for Opportunity & Equality".
2002
Publication of a painting as book
cover for Dawn Menken in her book, Speak Out! Talking About Love, Sex
and Eternity, New Falcon Publications, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
2002
Publication of four paintings as book
covers for Arnold Mindell: The Dreambody in Relationships, Working on
Yourself Alone, Working with the Dreaming Body, Riding the Horse Backwards,
Lao Tse Press, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2001
Publication of an article and painting in
The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA,
Volume 8 Spring/ Summer 2001. Article entitled, "Mother, what killed you?
Transcending Tragedy Through a Process-oriented View of Mental Illness and Body
Symptoms."
1997
Publication of a painting as book
cover for Joseph Goodbread's Radical Intercourse, How Dreams Unite Us in
Love, Conflict and Other Inevitable Relationships, Lao Tse Press, Portland,
Oregon, USA.
1995
Publication of paintings and drawings in The
Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Oregon, USA, Volume 7,
1995-1996, including cover and interior illustrations.
1995
Publication of article about painting and
creativity in The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland,
Oregon, USA, Volume 6, Winter 1994-1995, "Painting: the Beauty, Fun and
Discoveries of Inner Work."
education
2004
Educated in Didaktics of Adult Education, Akademie für
Erwachsenenbildung, Luzern, Switzerland; SVEB 1.
2001-01
Educated in Coaching,
Kurszentrum Aarau, Switzerland.
1997-98
Educated in Davis
Dyslexia Program Facilitation, Syntonics Institute Basel, Switzerland;
Facilitator Certificate.
1994 to present
Self-taught painting
and drawing.
1994-96
Studies in psychology
at Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; BA, Psychology, with special
focus on the Psychology of Creativity; Development of a course in
Process-oriented Expressive Painting.
1990-1996
Studies in
Process-oriented Psychology in Zürich, Switzerland and in Portland, Oregon,
USA; Certificate of Process Work.
1987-88
Studies in Business
Administration at the Huber Widemann School, Basel, Switzerland; Certificate.
1985-86
"School for Total
Theatre and Performance", Dance- and Theatre-Laboratory, Basel,
Switzerland.
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