A Portrait I Made For The German Singer-songwriter Bea - Check Out Her Page

This painting is already pretty old - it was the result of a short summer school about plankton ecology on a northern german island a couple of years ago. How time flies! About a year ago I (reluctantly) set my foot on Swiss grounds to start my masters at ETH in Zürich. Today I am leaving again, for some months at least - but before its time for new beginnings I want to cherish how much joy and warmth this past year has brought me! One of the many great experiences was certainly ArtSci (https://artsci.ethz.ch/), the first ETH art and science exhibition my friends and I organised this spring. Hans Thierstein was until 2009 full professor of Micropaleontology at ETH and has since then embarked on new creative adventures. Feel free to check out more of his work here - https://www.hansthierstein.ch/!  Hans was definitely one of the most involved participants in ArtSci this year, displaying his self-built quatroscope and a series of quatroscopies along with it. Apart from allowing us to display his very interesting artworks, he also actively helped making ArtSci happen whenever our logistics failed - he was just great!! The upper photo was made by him, it is a quatroscopy of my drawing from back at 2016. For me, this is a really nice illustration of how other people help us grow - I am so grateful for all the people that I have met here and elsewhere and for everything they have brought into my life. 

inspired by Lee Jeffries "homeless" - pencil on paper

Passiflora caerulea watercolour illustration  This beautiful blue passionflower plant grew right in front of our tent in France - what a good time that was! 

“Herr Janosch, wie nutzt man den Frühling richtig? In dem man mit geöffneten Augen den Augenblick nutzt. Und dabei natürlich den Überblick behält. Am besten wont man dabei in gehobener Strandlage,  dann hat man dazu auch noch den Ausblick.” - oder draußen, im Garten mit Sonne und Farben! 

My best friend and I also traveled to China this summer :) This is a sketch I made on our trip to the Great Wall, we hiked from the Mutianyu section towards the wilder part in Jiankou. It was super hot and tiring but the views were incredible and absolutely worth it! We both really loved the day, it's definitely one of those memories that you keep forever. 

Hollyhocks from our neighbors garden. The photo was actually taken by my best friend Wallli Rehman, check out his photography blog if you like: 

https://www.facebook.com/wrehmanphotography/

watercolour on paper

plankton.

Chinese man playing cards in the Big Bayan Tree parc at Gaotian village near Guilin, China.