About
About visual art
In 1998 I let all my “ifs and buts” go and applied to Art School. I had 8 paintings and 2 drawings to show and I was accepted (very much to my surprise). From then on my life has revolved around creating. It probably did even before that but not as strongly and consciously. It took me 5 years and two Art Schools, Domen Art School 4 years and Valand Art School 1 year, both in Gothenburg, to figure out what my creating really was about and some years ago I wrote the following statement to be able to explain in case someone asked and as a reminder to myself if ever in doubt...
Artist's statement...
Inspiration: Constantly seeking for the essence of all meetings. People, relationships, situations, the existence. An automatic, sometimes trying, ability which does not rest no matter what. To understand. To learn. To touch. To destroy and then create something new with the broken pieces. ”I am” never as much as when facing another human being. I love it. Breathing is so much more obvious when close to someone… Laughter more melodious when another person is listening... Love multiplies when meeting itself.
The meetings in my dreams are as much an inspiration. Explaining what I cannot translate into words. Only experience through pictures. The Land of the Deepest Promising Emotions. Blue thickened paths broadening themselves into neatly designed pink highways, at any time threatened to abrupt endings by a lake in the shape of a drop of water, or an ancient oak with leaves of purest glass. Different kinds of realities. Many never even imagined meetings, as well as experienced.
The act of creating is the most powerful when the Emotion is not forced to take a detour around the Intellect. When the Body transforms the experience into image in order to remain the memory of the occurrence. Regardless of the technique. A constant note of memories. Always refilling the storage I call Existing. I am a collector with a deep need to share. Create flow in a meeting. Create meeting in a flow. Seize it. Make it everlasting…
I do not know what tomorrow brings, where I shall stand, what I have managed to learn, what I feel…only that I shall strive to meet and express myself in the act of creating and in the creation – and share the experiences truthfully.
Every ”now” I am grateful for the Gift.