Discover the contemporary work of Prisca

Prisca comes from a family of painters, musicians and scientists. Spending her youth in the south of France (Menton) had a deep influence on her future creations. Very young she felt the urge to paint. Already at the age of seven she started with watercolour under the direction of her grand-mother Prisca. It was her first initiation to art and she still practices it today. The luminosity of the south is always haunting her: it is the guideline of her work, a real passion.Her parents leading an unsettled life, she could not follow a regular art school, but took a series of private lessons. She studied in various European countries and finally went to Geneva to the Interpreter's School. There she met her husband and spent the rest of her life in Switzerland. During her student's years she discovered the use of silk and colours: a great passion was born! For over 40 years, she tried to master colours and luminosity. Patiently she developed a new means of expression, a very personal and elaborate "mixed media" that captures colours and luminosity on a silk canvas. This allows her to create paintings of a unique character, that she calls as her "Silks" . Obviosly she chose "PRISCA" as her artist's name, in memory of her grandmother who was her first guide and teacher. In 1987 one of her paintings was chosen by UNICEF for a Christmas card that became a world best-seller and launched her career as a painter. Having 4 children, she had to “steal” periods of free time to create, which was a very strong stimulus. Normally she frames her work like a regular painting, but it can also be used in transparency: this particularity was appreciated by architects and she received many public commissions, especially of a very big size. She spent about 1 year for each realization, which left little time for exhibitions... That is why she waited until the age of 40 to start with her first personal exhibition. Now, painting takes most of her time. She also gives classes in her studio. As well in her watercolours as in her “Silks”, luminosity is her main concern