About the Artist
Ginny Litscher is a contemporary artist whose intricate hand-drawn compositions weave together mythological symbols, psychological depth, and vividly imagined natural worlds. Working with ink, pencil and richly layered paint, she constructs atmospheric universes inhabited by ravens, tigers, serpents and hybrid beings — visual metaphors that explore identity formation, power dynamics, narcissism, sexuality, and the subconscious.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Art Basel, Art Miami, a solo presentation at Loscar London, and institutional collaborations such as the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. Litscher’s paintings, murals and conceptual series have been shown across major art cities including Zurich, London and Berlin, and continue to attract a growing global audience.
Litscher has created bespoke fine-art commissions for notable cultural partners, including an original large-scale painting for Lalique and a dedicated artwork for Maserati, further expanding the reach of her visual language into curated art environments. Her work has been featured in prominent media such as Vogue, Financial Times – How To Spend It, and other international publications.
Across all mediums, Litscher’s practice investigates the tension between wildness and control, vulnerability and strength, dream and reality — forming immersive, symbol-rich worlds that resonate on both emotional and psychological levels.
DREAMING IN ART:
GINNY LITSCHER’S REAL FANTASY WORLD.
With intricately hand-drawn symbols and motifs, polymath artist Ginny Litscher creates fantastical worlds in her paintings, etchings, murals, luxurious textiles, and bespoke wallpapers. Viewing her works populated by mythical beasts, flora, and fauna, is mesmerizing. Stories and visions intertwine in palimpsests that captivate the onlooker, trigger the sub conscious and conscious minds, and induce vivid reveries. Litscher’s works offer up beguiling universes that are portals into revelatory dreaming and healing. Her subject matter is utterly her own but simultaneously universal as she addresses complex psychological themes surrounding narcissism, sexuality, and evolution. Her ever- expanding oeuvre encompasses fine art and applied art, luxury accessories, NFTs and decorative schemes.
Her medium is ink, pencil, and luscious paint and with those tools she unleashes the beauty and visceral power of our natural world as she examines our relationship with nature, with ourselves and with one another. Under Litscher’s microscope riveting scenes are unveiled that recall the phantasmagorical work of William Blake, Leonora Carrington, and Richard Dadd. Squawking ravens emerge from poly chromatic clouds in "Raven Blowing Out Smoke", deviant monkeys squabble in "Monkey Tantrum", tigers emerge from tropical rainforests bursting with fire and energy in "Eye of the Tiger" while ghoulish monsters suck on succulent fruit in "Monster Grapes".
JOURNEY OF AN ARTIST
Swiss born Litscher discovered her exceptional drawing ability as a young girl. Growing up in Zurich she would escape into nature and into the Natural History Museum to study botany, captivated by species, forms, colours and the minutiae of plant and animal life. But rather than simply illustrate, Litscher soon began to interweave her own story telling into her symbol rich worlds that vibrate with real and fantastical life.
Age 12, she began her artistic training at the School of Arts in Zurich and presented her first works in a group exhibition at the Triemli Hospital and the Werkgalerie Maur. She completed her diploma at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts before enrolling for a bachelor’s degree at Central St. Martin’s University in London. Her work sparked intrigue and she began working professionally receiving commissions for prints and illustrations from visionary creatives including the late Dame Vivienne Westwood and the peerless Alexander McQueen. Both were inspired by Litscher’s creative fearlessness, pyrotechnic skill, and ability to interpolate their respective aesthetic worlds.
GINNY LITSCHER’S PRACTICE
Litscher’s polymath practice expanded in both scale and vision as she took on scenography commissions for interior projects, each hand drawn and executed in works that might take months to complete. She exhibited works at the Royal Academy, presented a solo show at the iconic St. Pancras Hotel, and collaborated on a group exhibition at the Swiss Embassy as part of London Fashion Week.
As patron and gallery recognition has grown, Litscher has found her unique place at the nexus of fine art, fashion, and interior design. In Switzerland, Litscher presented her work as part of Mode Suisse at the Zurich Kunsthaus, Textile Museum in St. Gallen and at the annual Art Basel show which she returns to in 2023. She debuted in Germany at the Vogue Salon in Berlin.
Over the years, she has attracted many private clients including Lady Gaga, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley and Florence Welch while her bespoke interior papers and textiles have been commissioned for hotels, restaurants, private residences, including Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland and St. Pancras Hotel, a Victorian Gothic master- piece in Kings Cross, London. Litscher’s latest collaboration with the legendary Lalique debuted in Spring 2023. She created an original painting over the course of 2 months which was exhibited, alongside the new Lalique by Ginny Litscher collection of vibrant silk twill scarves in Paris during Maison et Objet.
The underlying themes in her work span narcissism, sexuality, ecology, and the infinite power of the imagination yet Litscher refrains from explicit ‘meaning’ preferring to provoke and inspire through her sensorial visions. Her practice dances between baroque decadence, and the sublime and surreal but remains utterly human. Ginny Litscher’s hand drawn vistas both satiate the eye and express the magical workings of the sub conscious mind.
Harriet Quick
Writer and contributing editor for Vogue and Financial Times, How To Spend It