She came to the arts in 2008 rather by chance through a course taught by Martin Stucki. “From the first day, I knew: This is my thing.” After that she tried many things – until she found her calling: the figurines. “I used to think that I wasn’t creative. Today I know: That’s exactly what I am.”
Cement demands patience – something she doesn’t usually have in vast quantities. Layer after layer she adds posture, expression, stability. Rough, grey or black, contrasted with white and often with a red accent. Alongside the cement, wire faces playing with shadows or humorous, colourful paper figurines emerge. Time and again, she speaks to her creations while she works.
For Chrige Lanz, the joy of making something is what counts. “No radio, no music – only dust, colour, the figurines and me. Then, the world is all right.” When it comes to the price of her art, she stays down-to-earth: “I deliberately keep my works affordable. The joy of my customers is my reward.”
She rarely struggles with letting go of her finished figurines: “When my customers send me photos – the figurine in their living room, in their garden, in the evening light – that makes me very happy.” Three to four times a year, she exhibits her work in galleries. Additionally, there are around a hundred pieces in the shop window in Thun and in her grandparents’ former house in Spiez, where she has her workshop. “I couldn’t make a living from art alone,” she says. “But I live for art – and that makes me rich.”
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