The art fair dedicated to established and emerging artists from French-speaking Switzerland, with a variety of original works.
Dates : August 30 to September 27
Time : Every day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Vernissage : August 30, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Venue: Exhibition Hall - Villars Palace
The third edition of Art Fair - Rencontres Artistiques Romandes, organized by ACT 1895, brings together a selection of established and emerging artists from French-speaking Switzerland, for a show rich in discovery and emotion. The fair showcases a wide range of artistic media, from painting and sculpture to photography and digital art.
Visitors will have the opportunity to discover original and inspiring works, each artist offering a unique perspective on the world around us. This edition stands out for the quality of its works, all imbued with a strong local flavour, and for the interaction it offers with the artists during the vernissage.
Donna has been living in Villars for 12 years, but her interest in photography began much earlier, in childhood, when she received her first film camera. Her lifelong passion took a professional turn in 2019 with the sale of her first works at the Galerie Alpine in Villars. Since then, Donna has exhibited her work throughout French-speaking Switzerland, in Chamonix, and in Gstaad. Her exhibition at Château de la Roche in Ollon was named “Editor’s Choice” by 24 Heures Lausanne, and her images have been published internationally.When she’s not capturing stunning landscapes, you can find her on the Bretaye slopes, wearing her red ESS Villars jacket. Drawing inspiration from nature’s shapes and colors, Donna’s photographic portfolio showcases enchanting, fairy-tale landscapes as well as striking animal portraits. Her landscapes have an abstract quality that transcends their physical location, resonating with viewers on a deeper emotional level. Her images are wild, dynamic, and full of movement.
📎 www.goldendoeart.com📧 donna@goldendoeart.com📞 +41 79 460 78 97📸 @goldendoeart
“Mountains Revisited”
For this exhibition, France Schmid chose to show some of her favorite techniques such as collage, ink, and watercolor. The landscapes she represents are from Valais, a region this avid hiker explores on foot, fascinated by its iconic peaks and rocks like the Dents du Midi, the Diablerets Massif, and other stone giants.
A self-taught artist, she came to the visual arts through photography, then travel sketching, before learning watercolor. Driven by a “rage to learn” and the desire to master all techniques—particularly collage, which allows the integration of diverse artistic approaches—France later became fascinated by digital tools. She created “revisited mountains” by layering two of her works, printed on brushed aluminum, giving her paintings shimmering, dynamic reflections. She also experimented with drawing on a graphic tablet.
Alongside painting, she authored two books:
📎 www.france-schmid.ch📧 frs@bluewin.ch📞 +41 79 730 65 74📸 @f.schmid
Homeira lives and works in Lausanne. Color is her emotional language. In her paintings, the child and the adult woman often appear as echoes of memory and becoming. In this exhibition, she presents intimacy, universality, and the fragile balance between two stages of life. Her works invite slow contemplation, encouraging viewers to recognize a part of this woman or child within themselves, suggesting connections, inner states, and fragments of identity.
📧 sunderlandhomeira@gmail.com📞 +41 845 52 57📸 @homeirasunderland
In 2022, ceramist Tanja Mougin set up her studio in Saint-Aubin-Sauges after earning her diploma in ceramic wheel throwing in Paris. Deeply curious about the surrounding nature and passionate about scuba diving, she finds most of her inspiration in underwater landscapes.Each piece tells a story of immersion, where gentle curves converse with the strength of natural elements. Contrasts between raw clay and glaze, between fluid lines and rough textures, create works that invite both touch and gaze. Her collections reflect a constant search for balance between fragility and strength, nature and imagination.
📸 @tanjamougin.ceramics
Raffaella Bruzzi Chervaz is an Italian-Swiss artist, engineer, and graduate of Milan’s Polytechnic School. In 2004, she moved to Lausanne to pursue a PhD at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Between part-time work and family life as a mother of three, Raffaella discovered in painting a personal space for reflection, expression, and meditation. Painting became a necessity. Since 2009, she has dedicated herself to it, continuously refining her techniques and undertaking new artistic projects.Like a scientist, she experiments with new concepts, exploring different pictorial practices in a constant search for balance between abstraction and figuration, smooth and rough textures, flatness and relief. Her journey began with materia, developing a deep connection to colors, shapes, and textures. Starting with an idea, an emotion, a state of mind, or a vision, she brings it to life through layered matter, transforming it into interplay of forms and light.She later explored abstract landscapes with her series “I Paesaggi dell’anima” (“Landscapes of the Soul”), combining brush and palette knife work, acrylics, oils, and natural pigments.Her rich exhibition history includes shows in Switzerland, France, and Italy since 2010. In 2024, her work was selected by Fondation l’Estrée and presented at the Lausanne International Art Fair.
📎 www.raffaellabruzzi.com📸 @raffaellabruzzi_art
Graduated from the École Cantonale des Beaux-Arts in Sion in 1988, I quickly exhibited my works in various galleries and cultural spaces in Switzerland and France. I work as a visual artist in my Lausanne studio.In 2020, I began research on the theme of surrounding forests. My first sketches were made outdoors on small sketchpads with felt pen in hand. Later, these drawings were reinterpreted in the studio, becoming large works on paper or textile. In color and black and white, these pieces are personal artistic immersions. The exact location of each work cannot be identified—my goal is not to depict a recognizable tree, but to convey the atmosphere of the forest in a sensitive, emotional way.In 2024, the “Forest Lacework” series was exhibited at the Arboretum of Vallon de l’Aubonne and reproduced in XXL format on banners along forest trails. What you see here is the latest development of this theme.
📎 veroniquewalter.ch📸 @signal19vw
For more than 25 years, Stéphanie Pothier has forged a unique path in contemporary art, blending the legacy of old masters with a deeply rooted ecological commitment. A passionate visual artist, she makes her own oil paints from natural pigments, in an artisanal process respectful of the environment.Her luminous, serene works invite reconnection with living beings. Through harmonious, vibrant compositions, she conveys a resolutely positive vision of the world, aiming to raise awareness without being didactic. Drawing on ancient techniques, she rigorously and sensitively explores matter and light. This fusion of tradition and contemporary concerns gives her work a timeless quality—poetic yet resolutely modern. Each canvas becomes an act of meaningful creation: an ethical and sensitive gesture serving sustainable beauty and a message of hope.
📎 stephaniepothier.art📧 contact@stephaniepothier.fr📞 +41 79 248 49 36📸 @stefpothier.art
Barbara paints her words. She prepares pigments, mixing them gently with egg yolk or oil—like a meditation. She is fascinated by ancient painting techniques.Coming from a line of women artists and a grandfather who was an architect and watercolorist, she played with colors, felt pens, brushes, thread, and scissors as a child, creating magical worlds by assembling, gluing, or sewing materials.Discovering Camille Claudel’s work was a revelation—a powerful vibration showed her she had to create too. Drawn to ancient frescoes, especially Renaissance ones, she explored working with pigments and old techniques, which she now uses exclusively.Once she starts, nothing stops her—sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, she lays her emotions on the canvas. She is undoubtedly inspired by artists like Zao Wou-Ki, Picasso, Erni, Schiele, Modigliani, and many others who fuel her creative drive. Love, sharing, presence, and absence inspire her to express herself. Sometimes she titles her works, but she prefers viewers to interpret them through their own emotions and experiences.
📎 www.barbaramuller.art📧 barbaramullerart@gmail.com📞 +41 79 916 43 04📸 @barbaramullerart
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