Wine Lovers Painting

Dorothée Heibel (ne Oetterli) was born in 1946 in Solothurn, the ancient seat of the French Ambassadors in Switzerland. A self-taught artist, Dorothée is able to draw references from a richly textured and colourful life. Her balanced yet unsymmetrical works, mostly on canvas, display an irrepressible energy. Impulsively generated, Dorothée's acrylic paintings proclaim a zest for life, reveling in the interaction of colour and texture. Her studio is centrally located at Lovedale in the Hunter Valley's Wine Country district. Original works range in price from approx. $300 to $8,000 " COLOUR nourishes my life. I grew up in a corn-yellow house in Switzerland. In autumn coloured leaves fell at the feet of my home. It rose proudly out of a beautiful red and yellow carpet. The whitest of winters couldn't take away the warmth of its yellow walls. The Silver Fir stood by its side - a loyal friend even through bitter cold. Come spring the light green leaves of the hazelnut bush. and bright red tulips came out to play and bathed in its yellow. Finally summer persuaded the big mauve Hydrangeas to join in. I marvelled at all this splendour framed by a fresh blue sky I grew up in a corn-yellow house in Switzerland... I grew up in a work of ART! "