Hans Schärer’s erotic watercolours are joyfully carnivalesque scenes in which bodies lustfully cavort and play. In settings that suggest a circus or a garden of earthly delights, sensual statuesque women take pleasure in their own company and from diminutive male figures with penis-shaped red noses.

His women embrace phallic structures and receive pleasure from creepy grinning animals, bizarre contraptions, and the ubiquitous red-nosed little man. The women are commanding, taking charge, and Schärer almost always portrays them larger than the men. Dream-like, blatantly absurd, and thoroughly exhilarating, his watercolours not only celebrate sex, but they appear to do so from a female perspective, where no woman’s fantasies are off-limits.