Jeannette Lerch

Jeannette Lerch was born in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Her first training was in painting, her second in ceramics. She has lived and worked in Lostorf/SO for over 40 years as a freelance designer of pottery sculptures, bronze objects and paintings. She has also had a second home in Marrakech/Morocco for over 20 years. In 2004 she opened the “Darkoum” gallery in Lostorf. Jeannette Lerch says of her work: “My large-format paintings are both memories and impressions from my life in Europe and North Africa. In depictions of animals, they tell stories, are fables and give rise to symbols and parables. They are a search for knowledge, often expressing the idea of vanitas – the awareness of transience. The animals play the role of a medium for human characteristics in the pictorial statement. I work with realistic stylistic means, but am moving more and more into surrealist symbolism. Analogous to a statement by René Magritte (Belgian surrealist painter, 1898-1967), I do not see myself as an artist, but as a thinking and feeling person who conveys his thoughts and feelings through the expression of his performing art – just as others do through music or language.” www.jlerch.ch