I’m an abstract artist based in  Sweden. 

I paint what things feel like, not what they look like. A coastline seen from 30,000 feet. The way light shifts across a field in the hour before dark. The aliveness that finds you in wild places, before you’ve thought to name it. These are the starting points. What happens next belongs to memory, intuition, and paint.

I am drawn to the tension between control and surrender, between the deliberate mark and the one that surprises you. My work lives in that space. I use oil sticks for their directness, their refusal to be tentative: they demand commitment, and that pressure keeps the work honest. I build paintings in layers, adding and obscuring, letting earlier decisions show through or disappear. The result is rarely what I set out to make, and that is precisely the point.

The visual language I return to, aerial photographs, topographic lines, and organic form, appeals to me because it is both intimate and vast. A contour map looks like skin under a microscope. A river delta seen from above looks like a nerve. These scales collapse into each other, and in that collapse, I find what I want to paint: the feeling of being both very small and completely connected.

I want my paintings to reward time. Not to be understood immediately, but to open slowly, to offer something different depending on how close you stand, how long you stay, what you bring with you.

Each painting is an invitation, not an explanation.

/ Anna