About the artist
A world between fashion and art
"With intricately hand-drawn symbols and motifs, Ginny Litscher creates fantastical worlds in her paintings, textiles and bespoke wallpapers. Stories and visions intertwine in palimpsests — portals into revelatory dreaming."
Harriet Quick, contributing editor for Vogue and Financial Times — How To Spend It
Ginny Litscher is a Swiss-born artist and designer based in Zurich. She spends months — sometimes years — building intricate, hand-drawn paintings that become silk scarves, dresses, kimonos, wallpaper, murals and bespoke interior commissions. Her worlds are inhabited by ravens, tigers, serpents and hybrid beings — visual metaphors for identity, power, sexuality, and the subconscious — drawn in ink, pencil and richly layered paint, then translated into the textiles, surfaces and objects of everyday life.
She trained at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2009. Her precocious draughtsmanship caught the eye of Alexander McQueen and Dame Vivienne Westwood, both of whom commissioned her to create prints early in her career; she also drew for Diane von Furstenberg and Zara Home. In 2011 she launched her own label, beginning with limited-edition silk twill scarves — each design born from an original painting, each scarf individually printed and finished with her now-signature hand-fringed edge, a technique that earned her a nomination for the Swiss Design Prize.
Following exhibitions at the Vogue Salon in Berlin and at London Fashion Week, her scarves were soon stocked by Liberty, Harvey Nichols, Joseph, Jelmoli and Ulli Knecht. In 2017 she expanded her practice into interior design — wallpapers, murals, paintings and whole-room concepts for hotels, restaurants and private residences worldwide. Hotelier Harry Handelsman commissioned her to create a painting and textiles for the Victorian Gothic St. Pancras Hotel in London; further commissions followed at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in Switzerland, and, most recently, L'oscar London.
Recent collaborations with Lalique, Maserati, Bvlgari and Genesis have been celebrated in Vogue, Financial Times — How To Spend It, Forbes, Elle, Marie Claire, the Sunday Times and NZZ. Her paintings have been shown at Art Miami, Art Basel, the Royal Academy in London, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Textile Museum in St. Gallen, and online on Artsy. Her pieces are worn by Lady Gaga, Keira Knightley, Florence Welch and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and collected by patrons across Europe, the UK and the United States.