Born in Germany and now based in Zurich, Yvonne Robert creates vibrant, gestural paintings driven by an intuitive relationship with colour and form. Raised in a family of artists, she recalls a childhood immersed in aesthetic conversation—where discussions around colour, shape, and 1960s pattern became foundational to her visual language.
Her works are spontaneous in conception yet underpinned by a deep engagement with universal principles: rhythm, proportion, structure, and mass. Avoiding symbolic narrative or conceptual layering, Robert instead allows colour to lead—studied, felt, and thoughtfully applied. Her canvases explore the emotional resonance of hue and composition, making each work a distilled response to her surroundings.
Early training in graphic design continues to inform her sensibility. Recurring motifs—bold lines, playful silhouettes, and structural balance—can be traced to this background. But it is her painter’s eye that guides her now: noticing the soft grey of a repainted bicycle, the interplay of skin tone, scarf and hair, or the subtle shifts of blue in the sky above the Zurich lake.
Robert has exhibited internationally in New York, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich. Her work is held in numerous private collections across Europe and the US.
