Lucy Lo Rasche is an artist from Shanghai who lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Chinese ink painting - her original training and enduring passion - continues to shape a practice now centred on oil painting. She studied with the Chinese Literati painter Cao Yong Ping and later with the expressionist painter and poet Ewa Gargulinska, and from both lineages her paintings draw a dialogue between the spatial sensitivity and calligraphic rhythm of Chinese painting and the expressive freedom of Western lyrical abstraction.

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Her canvases are rich in personal expression, poetic imagination and the Chinese philosophy of "Xu Shi" — the harmony of presence and absence. A meditative process lets organic forms emerge and dissolve within translucent layers of colour, holding stillness and movement, restraint and spontaneity, in balance.

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Her work is rooted in a life lived across cultures, and in an ongoing inquiry into how we relate to ourselves and to what is seen and unseen. Poetic expressiveness runs through it: reality and imagination meet, and symbolism opens the paintings to association. Sky, mountain and ocean evoke the vast universe; flowers and animals hold the inner one — the realm of soul and spirit.