Down the Road, February, 2024

To get to the beach we walk through this paddock with scattered endemic Kangaroo Island Narrow-leafed Mallee. On a hot summers day the low afternoon sun lights up the dry grass and the trees branches and makes them glow

I am a Swedish-born, Tarntanya/Adelaide-based visual artist. Working primarily as a painter, my art practice centres on landscape studies and figures in bodies of water exploring states of suspension and immersion.
Working both en plein air and with photographic documentation in rich colours and precisely applied paint strokes, my paintings explore my long-standing fascination with, and close observation of, the natural world.
Focusing on native trees, vegetation, rocks, and bodies of open water, my paintings move between figuration and abstraction – often in a single work.
Though a long-time practitioner, I would describe myself as an emerging artist, turning to painting full-time in recent years after a career as an illustrator following my studies in Sweden. As an adult migrant, Australia’s topology and geography are very different from Scandinavia, the landscape of my birth and childhood.
I am compelled to record it and be in it. Until now, most of my landscape paintings have drawn on my experience as a frequent visitor to Kangaroo Island walking the Adelaide Hills.