Pascale Kueng takes us on a fishing trip to the Swiss Alps

Date
24 September 2014

Switzerland-based artist Pascale Keung makes delightfully diverse work which is inspired by her chosen country’s stunning natural landscape as often as it is by wild fantasies. This series Muttsee is an example of the former, a collection of images about “a very special place in the Alps of Switzerland” where she goes to fish with her friends from time to time.

Her raw, colourful style mixes media in a way that suggests acrylic paint and colouring pencils were designed to be used together, so successfully do they combine in her sweeping landscapes and up-close portraits. In particular, I love the simple way a tiny pencil detail pulls your focus to the intricate outline of a tiny goat grazing on a heath, or the logo of a Swiss army knife used to gut a fish, emphasising the human points that might otherwise be overpowered by the intimidatingly beautiful mountain-range.

And if that doesn’t do it for you there’s always this series about an erotic tryst between a lion and a panther to distract you.

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Pascale Keung: Muttsee

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Pascale Keung: Muttsee

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Pascale Keung: Muttsee

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Pascale Keung: Muttsee

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Pascale Keung: Muttsee

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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