Estelle Vera

Estelle Vera was born in the countryside of Switzerland into a creative family of musicians, painters, dancers and writers. But not only culture also by being surrounded from nature had a deep impact on her way to think, to be and to walk through her life.

After her Master at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU she was drawn to Italy and continued her studies at the Art Academy Bologna.
The vibrant atmosphere at the academy but also Italy itself with its overflowing pot of art history and its joyfulness influenced her way further.

Her curiosity and openness for technics, materials and experiments brought her to further education in sculpting and digital medias and made her body of work developing in a very multi-disciplinary way. Also in the role as a lecturer and tutor at Bern Academy of Arts HKB she fostered openness for new unknown terrain and the edgy moments as a creative.

A good decade ago she moved to England with the idea to experience living by the sea and what kind of impact this could have on her artistic expression.
Well, it came pretty different. Barely landed most dramatic events turned her life completely upside down and nothing was working any more as she knew it.
In the aftermath she started to paint small paintings - still lives - came literally to life and the falling in love with painting again was a surprising outcome. She accepted the challenge and follows this intriguing path with enthusiasm and devotion.

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

2016 Layer by Layer / Galerie grunderperren / Lucerne
2013 Studio Apéro / Alte Spinnerei Wettingen
2008 Daily Flower Petals / Atelier Landenberg / Zurich
1997 Objects / Galerie an der Gerbegass / Sempach/Lucerne
1996 The Circle, the World, and the Square / Women's Art Forum / Bern
1990 Shift Change / Untitled Gallery / Lucerne
1986 Paintings / Galerie Eterna Interim / Zurich


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Small is Beautiful 43rd Edition / Flowers Gallery / London
RA Summer Exhibition 2025 / Royal Academy of Arts London
Summer Show 2025 / MYLO ART / Stockbridge, Hampshire
2024
Echoes of Identity / Maison Pan / London
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
RWA Annual Open Exhibition / Royal West of England Academy Bristol
RA Summer Exhibition / Royal Academy of Arts London
2023
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
The Art of Silence / Beaux Arts Bath / Somerset
RA Summer Exhibition / Royal Academy of Arts / London
Quiet Living / Rye Art Gallery / Rye, East Sussex
Annual Exhibition / Bath Society of Artists BSA / Bath, Somerset
2022
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
Art Take Away / Kunstraum Baden / Baden/CH 
2021
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
WAC Wells Art Contemporary / Wells Cathedral / Wells, Somerset
2020
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
Christmas Exhibition / Lime Tree Gallery / Long Melford, Suffolk and Bristol
Small Sizes – Kleine Formate / Galerie Carla Renggli / Zug, Switzerland
Miniatures and Masterstrokes / Rye Art Gallery / Rye, East Sussex
2019
Winter Group Show / Linden Hall Studio Gallery / Deal, Kent
Annual Exhibition / Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI / Mall Galleries London Annual Exhibition / Royal Society of Marine Artists RSMA / Mall Galleries London
Annual Exhibition 2019 / Royal Society of British Artists RBA / Mall Galleries London
2017
Small Sizes – Kleine Formate / Galerie Carla Renggli / Zug, Switzerland
2015
Saving the World – Ex Voto 2015 / Project Space 54 / Basel

MOVE TO ENGLAND

2014
Truffes & Trouvilles / Kunstraum Baden
2014
Under One Roof / Kunsthaus Zofingen
2012
Mise à Sac / Villa Dutoit Geneva
2012
Eintrudeln / Trudelhaus Baden
2011
Silent Head-Anthesis / Multimedia Land Art Project / Mellingen-Heitersberg
2010
Ateliergemeinschaft Spinnerei Wettingen / Galerie Gluri Suter Huus / Wettingen
Silent Heads-Flabellum / Multimedia Land Art Project / Seasalter Beach, England
2003
Drawing / Galerie Kunst-Raum / Zurich
1998
Annual Exhibition Interlaken (Guest) / Kunsthaus Interlaken
En Miniature / Women's Art Forum / Bern
1997
Na-Tour / Sculpture Exhibition / Outdoor Exhibition / Hitzkirch/Lucerne
1996
Wit and Eroticism / Women's Art Forum Bern
1989
Young Art / Gallery on Gerbegass / Sempach/Lucerne
1988
Central Swiss Annual Exhibition / Kunsthaus Lucerne
1987
Giovane Pittura / Galleria Nuova / Bologna/Italy

2023/24 Scholarship / SMKK-Stiftung / St Gallen
2022 Project contribution / Boner Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur / Chur
2018 Internationale Kunst Heute / Art Book / Selected for Edition 2018
2018 Project contribution "The Sea" / Baumgartner-Stünzi Kunststiftung, Basel
2017 Project contribution "The Sea"/ Sutter-Stöttner Stiftung, Münchwilen
2016 Project contribution "Beyond The Point" / Casimir Eigensatz Stiftung / Lucerne
2014 Project contribution "Silent Heads" / Kupper-Stiftung, Zürich
2011 Project contribution Silent Heads / Swiss Cultural Fund
2009/2010 Artist in Residence / Studio House Sciaredo, Barbengo (Oct-March)
1991 Swiss Archaeological School in Greece / Eretria/GR (April-Nov)
1990 SUVA Art Award


The work of Estelle Vera is represented in many public and private collections in Asia, Australia, Europe and Great Britain. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications.

Creativity Coaching / Eric Maisel - Noble Manhattan Coaching Ltd N.Y.
Bern University of the Arts / HKB / Lecturer and Tutor in Art Education
Zurich University of the Arts /ZHdK / Further Education in Art Education
Further Education in Classical Sculpting and Digital Arts // CH / DE
Academy of Fine Arts Bologna/Italy / Painting / Professor Giovanny D'Agostino
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts / MA