A narrative focus pervades the work of Gun Mattsson who draws inspiration from a wide selection of sources: east/west cultures, classical antiquity, renaissance and baroque eras etc. She works with a full complement of art materials such as gouache, aquarelle, acrylics, copper print and calligraphy. In recent yeas she has exhibited abroad in galleries in New York City and Montreal, Canada. She has also engaged in many study/painting trips to countries like England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and parts of Eastern Europe to widen her professional knowledge.

Here's how it will be when I paint:

Many small designs, sometimes difficult to detect without the magnifying glass, in the same frame. Speaks with each other in the silent, only way paper and painted figures have as alternative. Much is about symbols - to mean something to me. Something for you - at least I hope so.

Although I am strongly influenced by my great curiosity in history, psychology and philosophy (also part of my university studies), my characters do not allow to me to be "captain of the whole ship". For the most part I can not anticipate the last brush stroke.

I like to work with gouache and watercolour. But even with oil and acrylic, and graphics technologies.

I have shown my work in Argentina, the United States, Canada, Israel and a handful of countries in Europe - not least at the Florence Biennale Italy in 2007 - and of course in Sweden.

Represented in art books: International Contemporary Masters in 2008 and 2009 (rel. by Omma, USA)

Paintings from above:
1. Adam
2. Världens Cirkus