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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
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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
Two paintings chosen
by the "Gender Equality Office" in Basel, Switzerland to honor the
recipients of the "Award for Opportunity & Equality".
2002
Self-publishing and
printing of a set of 21 drawings on cards; Birth of logo and company name - gracefool-comix.
2003
Publication of a
drawing in the Swiss magazine "Spuren", Autumn, Nr. 69.
2003
Set of drawings
commissioned by Astrodienst, Switzerland, for a new graphic design of their
relationship horoscope by Liz Greene.
2004
Publication of a
drawing in the Swiss magazine "Spuren", Spring, Nr. 71.
2006
Website comic strip
commissioned by Yves Stöcklin, Basel, Switzerland.
www.clownschule.ch
2006
Developing and sale of
self-help tool "Spaceout-Queen"/"Spaceout-King" (Drawings II).
2010
Publication of a
drawing as book cover for Joseph Goodbread's Befriending Conflict,
Harmonic Processes, USA.
2011
Selling of t-shirts with
the drawing „free hugs“ (Drawings II) u.a., printed by Friederike
Leuenberger, Durchdruck, Münchenstein.
education
1985-86
"School for Total
Theatre and Performance", Dance- and Theatre-Laboratory, Basel,
Switzerland.
1987-88
Studies in Business
Administration at the Huber Widemann School, Basel, Switzerland; Certificate.
1990-1996
Studies in
Process-oriented Psychology in Zürich, Switzerland and in Portland, Oregon,
USA; Certificate of Process Work.
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.
1997-98
Educated in Davis
Dyslexia Program Facilitation, Syntonics Institute Basel, Switzerland;
Facilitator Certificate.
2001-01
Educated in Coaching, Kurszentrum
Aarau, Switzerland.
2004
Educated in Didaktics
of Adult Education, Akademie für Erwachsenenbildung, Luzern, Switzerland; SVEB
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