ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Angelette Sandmeyer is a self-taught artist born and raised in the Philippines in a family of educators. She is currently based in Switzerland, where she continues her artistic practice.
Her work focuses on building alternative lives, often portrayed through the use of bright colours and details that show whimsy, nostalgia, and romanticised realities.
Moving across illustration and mixed media, she creates imagery that leans into imagination and reinterpreted everyday life rather than strict realism.
Primary Media: acrylics, watercolour, ink, digital illustration
Additional Media: Oil paint, graphite, polymer clay
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LITTLE HOUSE IN THE TREE
2025
This is a home for a little being. The rent is low, the food is abundant, and life moves at a kind, unhurried pace. Every few days, the being sits on a smooth rock by the water and goes fishing. Not because they must, but because they can.
Sometimes, they fold paper boats and places them gently on the water, watching them drift toward bigger lakes, or even the ocean, starting adventures of their own.
THE MERMAID'S DESIRE
2025
There was always one thing about the sea that has always fascinated me. It was the endless library of stories and mysteries about it—-mermaids, sirens, pirates, krakens, whirlpools... The mystery of lost cities and bottomless trenches. Sunken ships full of treasure, or full of nothing at all except the heavy silence of time. Those ideas opened my mind to questions that felt far too big for a child, but I carried them anyway. The sea became one of my earliest foundations for how I view the world. Vast, mysterious, and, if I’m honest, extremely scary.
It was only very recently that I discovered just how many people long to fly halfway around the world simply to feel sea breeze on their skin and see palm trees swaying overhead. That realization made me see my childhood with new eyes. I had been living inside someone else’s dream all along, and I didn’t truly understand the value of it until much later.
TITAN OF THE PONDS
2026
While making this piece, it kept reminding me of my final few months back in the Philippines (my home country), where I snorkelled for the first time in my life . Many people (including myself) do not expect how colourful it really is underwater. It was like entering a liquid portal and seeing an entire new world with its own ecosystem. That experience changed how I imagined life underwater, and even expanding to freshwater worlds.
This painting also went micro-viral on social media, where hundreds of people were giving the majestic fish a name.
THE SKYBUS SIREN
2026
This painting may have traveled more than most people.
It was started on a plane, quietly witnessing my fear of flying. It continued its journey in China, inside the Shangri-La, during a long yet successful business venture that became an important milestone in my career--a reminder that I was capable of achieving more than I had imagined.
The painting was finished in the Philippines, where I reunited with my family after four years apart. It witnessed difficult conversations, moments of vulnerability, and the kind of honesty that only happens after years of being away.
Finally, it made its way back to Switzerland, where it will be framed and kept safe while waiting for its next chapter.
WHERE STARS COME TO READ
2026
Narnia was my first introduction to stories that felt like you could just step into them. I unironically believed that someday, I would find my own “wardrobe” that I could just walk into, and my life would change forever.
In this room, I like to imagine that there are shelves filled with unfinished stories, quietly waiting for someone to pick them up and continue them. Crystal globes that show the past and future are waiting on the shelves.
COSMIC RAILWAY
2026
Everybody has a place they long for. Sometimes it is a real city. Sometimes it is a country they dream of visiting. Sometimes it is a version of life they hope exists somewhere. And sometimes, I think it is a place that does not physically exist at all.
I often imagine trains travelling through the cosmos. Passengers quietly sitting by the windows with a warm cup of coffee, watching planets, stars, distant galaxies, and strange floating landscapes drift past. Children pressing their faces against the glass, trying to identify constellations while wondering what lies beyond the next stop.
This painting became my own journey.
SOMEWHERE UNDER THE BUSH
2026
Inspired by the idea of hidden worlds, this painting explores the possibility that entire communities could exist unnoticed alongside our own. Rather than presenting a complete fantasy, only a small fragment of that world is revealed.
Every house, bridge, and lantern hints at a larger system of traditions, routines, relationships, and history continuing beyond the edges of the painting. The intention was never to explain every detail, but to create the feeling that this place existed long before the painting began and continues to exist long after it ends.
TUNA FOR THE FAT CAT
2026
Where I grew up, there were many stray animals. Loving them or spending money on them is sometimes seen as unnecessary. People would say to just give leftovers, that it’s “too much” to treat them like family. And when people are also trying to survive, animals who are also just trying to eat can be seen as a problem, even an enemy. All of the cats I cared for came from situations like that. Abandoned or brought to areas like mine in ways that were not kind.
This painting holds that part of my life. The idea of being able to care. To feed not just yourself, but another living being, without it being questioned.
