USk Basel 2022

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Symposium Urban Sketchers Switzerland dans la magnifique ville de Bâle.

Mittlere Rheinbrücke

Baustelle

Münster und Basler Fähri

Barfüsserplatz

 

Porträtaustausch mit Inma Serrano

USk Week Intragna

For the second year in a row, Mario Leimbacher urban sketcher and art teacher from Bern, organized a USk week in Switzerland.

Sketchers were invited in Intragna in Centovalli (Ticino) to attend to five whole days of sketching, both workshops and sketchwalks.

 

Mario invited me to join him to lead a workshop with Liz Watkins (London) and my friend Johanna Krimmel (Darmstadt).

 

Mario has renovated a house of the village in which he set up a gallery on the ground floor where we could shelter from the cold and the rain.  

 

The participants were very charming and studious people. I enjoyed a lot these moments, sketching together, walking in the mountains and along the rivers, picking up chestnuts and mushrooms in this beautiful valley.

 We also had a sketchcrawl afternoon in Locarno, at the Major Lake, with the local USk chapter.

I can't wait coming back to Intragna.

 

USk Swiss symposium 2019 in Zuoz

The Swiss Urban Sketchers chapter organised its first symposium in the mountains of the Canton of Graubünden on September 21/22 2019. Thanks to the huge work of few organizers (Mario, André and Heidi) we were host in a magical location: the Lyceum Alpinum of Zuoz. I had the honor of being one of the faculty teachers.

I led two workshops about "mountain sketching" with enthusiasm, in a gorgeous valley under a bright sun. The symposium gathered around fifty people and was a great success. We all hope to meet again next year for such a friendly time.

Les Urban Sketchers de Suisse (principalement Suisse-Allemands) ont organisé leur premier symposium dans les montagnes du canton des Grisons les 21 et 22 septembre 2019. Grâce au travail colossal d'une poignée d'organisateurs (Mario, André et Heidi), nous avons été accueillis dans un lieu magique : le Lyceum Alpinum de Zuoz. J'ai eu l'honneur de faire partie du groupe d'enseignants.

J'ai animé avec enthousiasme deux ateliers de "croquis de montagnes", dans une magnifique vallée sous un soleil radieux. Le symposium, qui a réuni une cinquantaine de personnes, a été une grande réussite. Nous espérons tous nous revoir l'année prochaine pour un moment aussi convivial.