Portfolio · Lausanne → Château-d'Oex
Leary
De Wit-
Rockman
Illustration · Sculpture · Painting · Digital · Photography
Portfolio · Lausanne → Château-d'Oex
Illustration · Sculpture · Painting · Digital · Photography
I'm an artist with a real love for working with people and helping them find things they feel excited about. Over the years I've worked across drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital illustration — always curious about what each material allows me to say. I always bring creativity and positive energy to any place I work.
Portraits of places — Swiss chalets and family homes in ink wash and gouache, and wooden houses painted on every face. Each one made for someone, about a place they love.
Animals drawn as portraits — three horses in oil pastel and an alpaca in ballpoint, each one a study in presence, weight, and character.
Painted river stones from around Saanen and Gstaad — the Saanen bridge and alpine villages in miniature, and a winter menagerie of Christmas animals. Small enough to hold, made to keep.
People, drawn with patience — ballpoint portraits built line over line with no erasing, and a digital memorial portrait made as a tribute.
Where drawing becomes storytelling — an inked bande dessinée page, two shopkeepers asleep in the afternoon sun, and machines that never existed: a shark rebuilt as a submarine, a flying boat resting on calm water.
Moving beyond the flat surface — three sculptural works exploring the body, movement, and constraint. Each piece in a different material, each asking a different question about form and feeling.
The body as subject — from loose life studies to careful anatomical observation. Working in ink and graphite to understand form, weight, and presence.
Curiosity about what's beneath the surface — skull studies from multiple angles, a knot of serpents and a hawk mid-dive in ballpoint, and the life-death duality of the rabbit series on tea-stained paper.
Conceptual works exploring femininity, constraint, and cultural representation. The Japanese mixed-media canvas layers traditions and aesthetics; the red shibari painting distills the body to its most graphic form.
The practice of close looking — crushed snack bags rendered wrinkle by wrinkle, a hyper-detailed strawberry, a blossoming branch, a humble onion drawn from life, a monumental eye with the Alps reflected in its iris, a tarot card redrawn by hand, and the Palais de Justice in obsessive ink detail.
Every digital work begins with a drawing. These pieces show the full journey — from initial sketch to finished screen — because the hand is always present behind the pixel.
About the process
Each digital illustration begins as a pencil sketch on paper. The drawing is scanned and developed digitally — building light, colour, and atmosphere layer by layer.
Commission · "With Love for Miri"
Graphite on paper — commissioned piece
Further Works
A photography series exploring the female figure in a natural forest setting. Natural light, unposed stillness, and the body as part of the landscape.
"I always bring creativity and positive energy to any place I work."
Leary De Wit-Rockman is a multidisciplinary artist based between Lausanne and Château-d'Oex, Switzerland. Graduating with a Bachelor in BD Illustration from CERULEUM Lausanne (2020–2025), her practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, digital illustration, and photography — driven by an insatiable curiosity about materials and methods.
She currently teaches comics and illustration to children aged 6–13 at JFK International School, believing that creativity and storytelling are fundamental to how we understand ourselves and the world around us.
Open for commissions, collaborations, and conversations about art.