Raphael Daniel

Passion is what drives the world. Real people living their mission. My art is a result of many deep inner processes, a result of a constant search for what will deeply move, touch and strengthen viewers and buyers.

Great artists like Kandinsky never ceased in searching for "The Spiritual" in art. Mondrian was passionate about visualising spiritual dynamics we can't see. And Picasso "saw" for people depicting–as I believe–their spiritual condition.

With my art I'm building on what those great artists accomplished by producing photographs, paintings and art books as a form of meditation with messages pointing towards the Devine in us.

Already as a youth I loved taking pictures and developing them in my own black & white photo lab. After my studies in forest engineering and while raising my wonderful six kids together with my loving and supportive wife I realized that I as a person must change if I wanted to achieve anything in life—a life’s journey began of ups and downs resulting in constant inner transformation!

I’m currently working as an artist and photographer next to my job in IT with the strong belief that art can help us all to be creative in solving daily problems, think outside the box and thus contribute to makin...

2020 - 2024: Leica Academy photography courses in Zurich, Bern and Basel
2016: Christian Business Leadership & Management KCLI in Toronto
2013: CAS Marketing- & Corporate Communications ZHAW in Winterthur
1999-2025: studies in Forest Sciences (with focus on social and economic subjects) ETH in Zurich
Before 1997: evening classes in drawing, painting and photography at the art school (Schule für Gestaltung) in Basel

2026: "Art Gathering" - (The Power of) THE ROCK, Wetzikon, Switzerland
2025: "Art Gathering" - (Building on) THE ROCK, Wetzikon, Switzerland
2025: "Home Gallery" - Life Behind the Scene, Gibswil, Switzerland
2024: "Home Gallery" - Motion, Gibswil, Switzerland
2023: "Hotel Arancio" - Life Behind the Scene, Ascona, Switzerland
2023: "Kunsttage Steg", Steg, Switzerland