Education
Since her early childhood colour has played a major role for Barbara Diethelm and she developed a sensitivity for colour and an appreciation for the use of paint. After finishing college in Zurich, she moved to the United States in 1982. She studied graphic design from 1983 to 1985 and fine arts until 1988 at San Antonio College under the instruction ofColour as connecting element
After her return to Switzerland, in the beginning of the 1990s, she developed her painting in various groups of work. Furthermore, Barbara Diethelm took over the family business Lascaux Colours & Restauro after her father's death in 1995. She is specifically interested in the development of holistic colour concepts and she developed the colour system Sirius Primary System in 1996. This extended five-colours-system was patented by theArtistic work
Since Barbara Diethelm is familiar with the production of paints, her artistic work revolves around an alchemy of colour: material properties of paint, its aesthetic aspects, up to its spiritual energy and interplay of colours. Barbara Diethelm said in an interview, that everything is a remembering of a deeper knowledge, the knowledge about the unity with the cosmic harmony. She wants to awaken the sense of harmony and balance, which appears in the light of nature. Since 1985, Barbara Diethelm regularly displays her work in solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy and the USA.''Im Atelier bei Barbara Diethelm.'' Interview in ''Art & graphic magazine.'' January 2005, p. 13.Publications
* Barbara Diethelm (drawings) and Werner Schmidt (poems), ''Tamangur. Of cats and stars.'', Wolfbach Verlag, Zurich 2012. * Catalogue ''Barbara Diethelm, Silver Banks.'' Galerie Susi Landolf, 2005. * Catalogue ''Barbara Diethelm, New Paintings.'' Galerie Susi Landolf, 2002. * Catalogue ''Barbara Diethelm, Argus.'' with texts by Serpoohi Benazzi-Pilosian. Galerie Susi Landolf, 1996. * ''Light in the body – body in the light. Revisioning the balance of light and dark.'' In ''Proceedings of the CIE centenary Conference “Towards a new century of light”.'' Paris, 15–16 April 2013, p. 1162–1167. * ''The spirit of colours in the body of architecture.'' In ''Journal of Traditional Paint News.'' Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012, p. 27–33 * ''A holistic view of colour – a bridge between physics and metaphysics.'' In International Colour Association (AIC) (ed.), ''Interaction of Colour & Light in the Arts and Sciences, 7–10 June 2011.'' Book of Abstracts, Zurich 2011, p. 96. * ''Cosmic Colours. A paint-maker shares her discovery of the deeper meaning of colour.'' In ''Resurgence & Ecologist.'' 265, 2011, p. 48–49. * ''Pigment – der Ton der Farbe.'' In Roland Aull (ed.), ''Farbe & Gesundheit.'' Callwey Verlag, Munich 2004, p. 84–92.External links
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