I
am living in Stockholm, Sweden where I was born. I am
a member of Swedish Artist Society.
Art and photography have always interested me. For many
years I worked as a psychologist before gravitating
to art.
As an artist, I am mainly an autodidact and have studied
painting for different artists and shorter programs
of artistic education in Sweden and USA.
I am painting in acrylic on canvas but am also making
paintings using mixed media. In my work I often use
sand collected from many different parts of the world.
On each painting where I use sand I let the sand from
different parts of the world blend together –
blending its different textures.
For me art is not about depicting, it is about making
visible. To make visible different aspects of our inner,
for example our male and female sides, our intellectual,
emotional and spiritual sides.
I can be inspired by something. I remember a special
sound, light, colour, smell, movement, but I do not
try to depict it. I just intuitively put paint on the
canvas in many thin layers, letting new motifs appear,
change, be reinforced or painted over, letting the painting
gradually transform. Sometimes the motifs are abstract;
sometimes they are nature or different kind of portraits.
I want to take the viewer on a visual journey. To let
the viewer catch a glimpse of different aspects of himself,
of the illusions of life. Art and life are one.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2009
- Swedish Artist Society, Stockholm, Sweden
- FAOS “Survivor”, Gallery Cosmopolitan,
Gothenburg, Sweden. Juried
- “Luce Colore Anima – Centoartisti”,
Centro Culturale San Vitale, Cremona, Italy. Juried
- Artists Autumn Art Salon, Kistamässan, Stockholm,
Sweden
- ”Young Thoughts about Tellus”, Royal National
Park of Haga, Stockholm, TellusArt, Invited
- 2nd Palm Art Award Presentation Show, Art Domain Gallery,
Leipzig, Germany. Juried
- Spring Exhibition, Gallery Plaisiren, Stockholm, Sweden
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi,
India, Invited
- Chandigarh Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India,
Invited
2008
- 08–09 FAOS Christmas Exhibition, Galleri 37,
Kungälv, Sweden. Juried
- Gallery Immagini Spazio Arte, Cremona, Italy
- ViaFirenzeSweden, Gallery Cosmopolitan, Gothenburg,
Sweden
- Galleri Ängel, Stockholm
- Studio Vogue Gallery, Toronto, Kanada
- Galerie Gora, Montreal, Kanada
- Vårsalong, Galleri Plaisiren, Stockholm
2007
- Florence Biennale, Italy (jury)
- Galleri1
- Art Festival Sweden
- Galleri Riddaren, Stockholm
- Handelsbanken, Stockholm
2006
- 06-07 Neighbour Art & Design, Stockholm
- Galleri Gummesons, Stockholm |
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