Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Jeanne Schmid began her career as a sculptor. For ten years, her artistic research led her to explore line as a tool for defining space. Exhibitions, competitions and residencies took her all over Europe, until a tragic car accident turned her life and her art upside down.
After several years in search of a new meaning to her life, Jeanne Schmid redefined her artistic vocabulary, extending it to photography, video and audio.
In 2012, her video installation project “états d’âmes” won a grant from the Swiss Federal Department of Culture.
In parallel with her new research, the artist is gradually getting closer to painting, and regularly exhibits her work in various parts of Switzerland. Since 2012, Jeanne Schmid has taken part in several residencies and artistic projects across Europe. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Musée de Montreux, as well as several private collections.

My work is characterized by an avoidance of acrylic paint, which I replace with inks, powdered pigments and vegetable dyes.
The attention paid to the creation of my colors and the preparation of my supports brings a meditative aspect to my painted objects, while it opens me up to an increasingly dense field of reflection on the material conditions in which my art evolves.
I work on a motif that is as simple as possible,the trace that my gestures leave on the support.
Inspired by Zen painting and the ensô motif, I also develop foraysinto an imaginary, often mineral, landscape.
For several months now, I’ve been exploring the possibilities of the colors I obtain from stone or earth powders. This research brings me even closer to nature, and the distribution of my paintings helps to strengthen the awareness of our living environment.