This year Friboy is printing his own birthday invitations. This is his first lino carving and I am surprised how at ease he was with it.Continue reading
Linocarving with Friboy
Elemental beasts by Friboy
I am proud and delighted to launch FriboY’s #nft collectible tokens. It is a series of collectible digital cards for the non fungible tokens art market (purchase only with ETH digital currency), each depicting an original elemental beast designed by FriboY and me.
The cosmic guardians
I am super excited to launch my #NFT art collection. It is a collection of archetypal beings, overseeing the rules of the universe. The first 5: The Cosmic Duck, the Primordial Cow, the Karmic squirrel, the Transcendental Chicken and the Intergalactic Squid are already up on OpenSea market. They are all original paintings, painted by hand and digitized as NFT tokens.
Frifemme – My story
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself again after a long time. My name is Alexandra, I am 37 yrs old and live in Fribourg, Switzerland together with my 3 people tribe: my husband, my son a.k.a. Friboy, and our non-human dog person Loko. I was born in eastern Romania and I am melting pot of the cultures that crossed that space, Romanian, Greek, Vlach.
Making art was and still is the journey of my lifetime, the calling of my soul…which for most of my life I was completely unaware about.
Of spirit and the forest
Introducing my next collection of glass paintings – De l’esprit et la forêt (Of spirit and the forest).
The journey
When I was a small kid I would ask my grandmother to take me and my sister to the railway station. It was my favorite thing to do, sitting there and watching the trains until they left. They were old, smelly and rundown, but to me they looked magical because they took people to places they had never seen before.
The deer in the forest
This illustration is inspired by the forest of Grand Belmont, one of my favorite forests in the canton of Fribourg. I saw a deer in one of my evening walks in this forest and felt like I needed to paint it. The whole scenery seemed surreal and magical, the deer popping out of nowhere, watching us for a while before taking of in the bushes.
The Self care series
The self care series of illustrations is inspired by my own wellness practices. They feature Bear – The bearer of wisdom, a bear who lives in Bern by the Aare river, he is a rescued bear, now living in captivity. Life forced him to learn how to manage stress, practice self-care and let go of the things he cannot control.
Les potz
Les potz was born out of necessity because I needed flower pots for my plants and since the stores were closed I had to improvise. So I repurposed the tin cans we had stocked for the quarantine. They are hand painted and coated with water proof varnish.
The humanz
The humanz is a collection of old bowling pins, I have restored and painted by hand. They are an ecclectic bunch – a skipper, an artist (Yayoi Kusama), a mystic, an Indian woman, the Virgin Mary – and reflect my curiosity and interest in cultural diversity and spirituality.