Anna Parisch (RAVEN) is a Swiss contemporary artist exploring light, matter and the invisible landscapes of memory.

Based in Geneva, she works across painting, combining mineral pigments, ink, oil and traditional as well as Japanese-inspired techniques. Her practice moves between abstraction and landscape, seeking to express not the appearance of a place, but its atmosphere, memory and emotional presence.

Her paintings emerge through layers of colour, pigment, oil, ink, gesture and texture. Surfaces are built, transformed and sometimes eroded, allowing images to appear and dissolve. Horizons, water, stone, mist and distant light become recurring sensations rather than literal subjects.

RAVEN's artistic language brings together different cultural and pictorial traditions. The contemplative presence of sacred art, the expressive freedom of gesture, the atmospheric qualities of landscape painting and the Japanese sensitivity to restraint, impermanence and material presence all contribute to her practice.

Her relationship with Japanese art is expressed through an exploration of Nihonga, Sumi-e and wabi-sabi, while her broader practice remains deeply rooted in painting as a material and timeless language. Oil, mineral pigments, ink, gold and traditional painting processes coexist within the same artistic universe, allowing each medium to reveal a different quality of light and depth.

Light is central to her work. It is not simply illumination, but a presence within the painting — emerging through layers, surfaces and contrasts. Pigment and oil can become dense and luminous; ink can dissolve into silence; gold can appear as a trace of light beneath or across the surface.

This dialogue between material and immaterial, tradition and abstraction, control and chance defines the evolution of RAVEN's work.

Her paintings are not intended to reproduce a landscape, but to evoke what remains after the landscape has disappeared: a sensation, a memory, a fragment of light, an emotional trace.

Influenced by a contemplative approach to art and by the Japanese understanding of impermanence, RAVEN embraces irregularity, transformation and the unexpected marks that emerge through the process of painting.

Her work invites the viewer to slow down, move beyond representation and enter a space where landscape becomes memory, matter becomes light, and the visible gives way to the unseen.

Vita

Born in 1971, Anna Parisch is a freelance visual artist based in Geneva, holding a degree in History. Between 1997 and 1999, she participated in an exchange program between pastel artists from Yaroslavl and Cuneo (Italy), assisting in the organization of exhibitions.

A decisive moment in her career came in 1998 when she met master Edvard Vyrzhikovsky, who introduced her to plein air painting. Later, her artistic path has been shaped by formative encounters, experimentation and a constant search for new techniques and materials.

She  trained drawing and illustration at Higher School of Art of Annecy Alps (ESAAA) and the École des Beaux-Arts Genevois (EBAG), IFAGE while further refining her practice through workshops and the Martenot method school. She also completed training in Nihonga techniques at the Musee Guimet in Paris and followed a course on the art market in Geneva.

Materials & Process

RAVEN's practice moves between traditional painting and experimental processes, combining oil, acrylic, watercolour, egg tempera, ink and Nihonga-inspired techniques. Sumi-e, Suminagashi and cyanotype are explored alongside processes involving oxidation and natural materials.

She works with mineral and natural pigments, Indian ink, walnut stain, Gofun oyster shell powder, glass powder and rust, including materials collected during her travels. These elements become part of the painting's texture, depth and atmosphere.

Her approach embraces a balance between intention and spontaneity, influenced by the Japanese sensitivity to wabi-sabi — impermanence, simplicity and the beauty of the imperfect.

Through material, light and transformation, each work becomes a meeting point between tradition and contemporary expression.

Exhibitions and Art Fairs

She regularly participates in international contemporary art fairs and collective exhibitions, including Art International Zurich, Art contemporain at the Carrousel du Louvre, ArtBoxy, OpenArtCode and collective exhibitions in Geneva.