Esther Huser

Acquired directly from the artist

In the collection of the Art Renewal Center, 2023

Zurich-Rapperswil, Switzerland, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Museum of Art: REAL23 contemporary realism in Switzerland, May 2023

International Guild of Realism, “IGOR juried Fall Salon”, (online exhibition), October 20 -December 20, 2022

New York, Sotheby’s, 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition, FWSD Award, July 14 – 24, 2023

M.Mantyk, Annual Journal XI, The Society of Classical Poets, Mount Hope, New York, 2023 illustrated p. 137

S.Peralta, Lunar Codex: The Polaris Collection, enclosed in cultural time capsule on the Griffin lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, and placed on the Moon in perpetuity, launch scheduled November 2024, illustrated

Various authors, International Realism: 16th International ARC Salon, ACC Art Books, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2023, (Fashion Week San Diego Award), illustrated p. 43

Esther Huser was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1961. In her young adulthood she spent a decade working as a navigator on offshore sailboats and then pursued higher education, earning an MA from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, PhD from the University of Fribourg, and a Master of advanced studies degree at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her works have been exhibited across Europe and the United States. She has won numerous awards including 1st place painting at at the 13th International fine art competition ‘Premio Arte Laguna’ in Venice, Italy, Second prize in The Artist's Magazine's 2015 Annual Competition, Second Place (Landscape) in the International Artist Magazine competition (2018) and an Honorable Mention (Landscape Category) with her depiction of a cabbage field in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.

Esther Huser has an image in her mind that she strives to recreate. They are not just ideas; they are elaborate and complex visions. Having found that she was dissatisfied with painting from photos and also dissatisfied with painting from life, she discovered a new way of conceptualizing her works. She has an unusual process of taking thousands of photos and then compiling exceptionally small pieces of these images on the computer into one singular vision, in order to create her own world. This process takes months before she even picks up a brush. Verging on obsession, she searches in nature and in her creations for an emotion, that she has describes as “something like a longing” she says she does not know what this longing is for, but that she hopes one-day she will full-fill this craving for more nature and create a visualization of a perfect world.