Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at my recent art exhibitions! In this vlog, you'll get a visual glimpse of my solo shows — from vibrant gallery walls to a short moment from my artist talk in Tacoma.
These exhibitions have been deeply meaningful to me, and I’m so grateful for everyone who came out to experience the work in person.
🌈 The Bellevue Exhibition – "Rhythms of Color" – is still open! You can visit and explore the show at Barlow Gallery. For details, go to: [www.barlowgallery.com](https://www.barlowgallery.com)
Yeah, but I love that going on the stage.
Oh, that's right.
So this one, she started painting in Seattle, in our guest room, and had done about, I think,
10 layers was what you referenced yesterday?
Yeah.
And last Sunday, we went to rescue these two kittens.
And the motion we came back to was this motion of holding them and embracing them, and their
kitten-like shape.
And so as she kept painting, those things fed into the painting, and it became this
hugging movement.
In Småland, like the same spot it's within.
And I paint in a place called Värmlandsmäss.
A lot of time in nature, just to breathe again.
Because I was in Kuala Lumpur during three and a half months where we couldn't exit the
apartment building even.
It was so good to get home to nature.
You could walk again outside in the park.
For me, every time before I sit down and paint, I do find that it's much easier to find both
your curiosity, your inspiration, and your creativity, but also the probably self-conscious
themes that kind of pop up in the art.
And I have two pieces here.
And the first one has a lot of this warm yellow.
And I've been reading a lot about the science as a life and beauty.
So for me, it's one of my favorite colors to use.
And I believe it's connected to nature again, of course.
Like in Sweden, after a really long six months of darkness and cold, we get to see the sun again.
So it's quite obvious why.
And I think our colors also shift depending on what landscape we are in.
In the last years, I've been moving more and more towards working with how color is connected
to our seemingly abstract.
I really like to be in between.
And I think, to me, it's more like creating a story that can have many different outcomes.
And what I love to do is really to ask this question to everyone.
What kind of story do you see in the work?
Yesterday, it was so interesting to hear the stories from the people that visited the exhibition.
I heard a few of the younger women there saying that they could see a lot of confidence in the paintings.
They could see confidence, but they could also see both a very strong feminine woman,
but also both feminine and strong together.
I try to picture different moods of transition, change, happen in my paintings that I keep going back to.
And it's the one thing we cannot change, right?
Change will always happen to us.
And it's about how we move into these transformations.
So that's a major thing in my work.
Also in the abstract.
