Contact information:
E-mail: art[at]anitaelgerot.com

Homepage: www.anitaelgerot.com

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