Just like a mum who wants her children to land somewhere safe I’d like my paintings to find homes where they are appreciated and loved. So here’s 5 things I’d love the collectors of my work to know:
1. How I make my colours
I mix all my own colours which means I only use blue, red, yellow, and white to create the colours I want to work with in stead of buying paint in the colours that I like (spoiler alert they often do not exactly exist).
2. Unique colour palettes
Every series of work has a unique colour palette based on the place and the season and country I visited that inspired the paintings. For instance: my Botaniska series has a palette with as little yellow as possible and lots of white because the light in Sweden was so blue and diffused. Whereas my Night Garden series has almost no white and lots of saturated darker colours. And for my Jungle Dreams paintings I stayed far away from bright colours and chose blue over green as much as possible.
3. Something way bigger
All my paintings are part of something bigger, they never stand alone. I always regard my series as art families. The one that stood out the most in that sense is my art project Botanical Family for I constructed a genealogy for all those paintings and collages to exist within. Sometimes they’re just brothers and sisters and sometimes they feel like chosen family. But all my paintings belong to something bigger.
4. My purpose
The reason why I paint is to create my own purpose and to feel more alive. Translating soul soothing moments in gardens and greenhouses all over Europe into my own language of beauty. Discovering patterns, layers, and composition in nature and by doing so finding them in humankind as well. This way painting makes me understand life and all its experiences better. It’s like getting to the heart of an emotion, a purposeful moment, zoom in and elaborate on that.
5. The art of becoming
My paintings are part of my journey of becoming my future self. Within every work I find a piece of myself and with those pieces I am completing the puzzle of my own psyche, soul, and physique. So all my paintings are their own reward and that’s why I paint.