Watercolours & gouache 2022

Did a lot more watercolours then usual this year but I never get the full hang of it no matter how many times I try. The below set contains some more “traditional” paintings.

The second set below are painting where I simply drew with the brush. I actually prefer this way of using watercolour keeping it simple and with a calligraphic flavour.

Time to sum up the Apocalypse theme

I started playing with unnatural colours schemes in 2018 when I stopped aiming for traditional realism. It has since then developed into a theme symbolizing a feeling of existence being out of order waiting for the apocalypse. The motives often show my daughters in settings where the human behavior is modified by our culture of distancing us from other life.

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National romanticism and my contemporary mood

How do we choose what we pick up and get influenced by in this huge flow of information and impressions? In my watercolour paintings during the first half of 2018 I see a flavour of national romanticism. Is it a response to the current political mood in Sweden of rising nationalism and callousness? It has not been possible to ignore when who is a proper swede and who is not is debated in a language reminiscent of the 1930’s. Continue reading