Raphael Egli

What does seeing mean? What is a picture?

Raphael Egli paints pictures from seeing. He goes out and looks at a landscape, at the surface of a lake, at forests, hills and mountains, at buildings and groups of buildings, at the sky and clouds. He paints what he sees in small format and on-site – a picture of the moment, a cursory rendition of landscape, its individual traits typified. But he devotes himself with great intensity to the value of the colours in order to capture a singular mood, a particular lighting. The fleeting light that lies on the landscape and enhances its reaches and depths acquires enduring solidity in Egli’s pigments.