NOW that’s what I call making a pitch. Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of Swiss-French artist Saype, who is renowned for his huge artworks painted on all manner of landscapes with eco-friendly paint he developed himself.

His latest work is a remarkable painting of a young girl drawing a football pitch in the heart of Geneva, coinciding with the staging of the UEFA Womens Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland, and it’s one of his brilliant best yet.

“Art and sport have the power to be a universal language that transcends the barriers between human beings,” he says of the project. “Whether social, economic, or ethnic, they are disciplines that unite more than they divide.

“This is the message I wanted to convey here, depicting a child drawing on the ground what resembles a football field. She imagines her own field, shaped to her scale, where no matter where one comes from, these lines become, above all, a place of sharing.

“Art and sport both bring people together beyond their differences,” he reasons: “No matter where you come from, or who you are, we all stand equal before a work of art or a football.”

The artwork, created directly on the grass using fully biodegradable paint, spans a surface of 8,500 square metres and took four full days of on-site work to complete in the middle of a heatwave.

All the pigments used are environmentally friendly and have no impact on the soil, reflecting the artist’s commitment to sustainability at the heart of his creative process.

Self-taught Saype is best known for his paintings on grass, and was listed by Forbes magazine among the 30 most influential personalities under the age of 30 in the field of art and culture. You can read my past posts on his work here.