About my container ship paintings
You see a ship heading out to sea, soon it disappears beyond the horizon. Like a film with an open ending, your imagination creates its own story.
Slowly, mysteriously, giant boxes drift over the sea, containing most of the things that our society requires of computers, clothes, etc…, but we cannot see them.
They also make you consider how we live our lives, and how we have built our civilization. Processes that are difficult to perceive when you are in the middle of them.
My fascination with container ships has many grounds. The physical shapes of the ships are exciting. They look like giant cubist sculptures, sometimes resembling a modern city. One can also view them as people, different individuals with different personalities.
Finally, things happen to you when you are there, right next to these gigantic ships that are as tall as a minor skyscraper and 200-400 m long. It is a very special feeling.
How it began…
My daughter was furnishing her apartment, and someone said to me ”When you live in Gothenburg, I think you should have a marine painting on the wall. Couldn’t you paint one?” I’m sure they were thinking of an old sailing ship. I painted a container ship, and then I was hooked.
Exhibitions in recent years
Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2021
Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2019
Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2018
Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2017
Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2014
Gallerinatt Malmö MKK 2020
Nässjö Konsthall 2020
Partille konstförening 2020
Galleri Ekvall+Törnblom Stockholm 2019
Galleri Final Fabriken Kivik påsk 2019
Vattenfalls bergrum Stenungsund 2016
Galleri Ekdahl Karlstad 2019
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2018
Affordable Art Fair Stockholm 2018
Galleri Ekvall+Törnblom 2018
Galleri Final Fabriken Kivik 2018
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2017
Galleri Sagoy Malmö 2017
Galleri Final Fabriken Kivik 2017
Galleri Ekvall+Törnblom 2017
Konstnärshuset Svavel Jönköping 2017
Galleri Backlund 2016
Ekerum Konsthall 2016
Eksjö museum 2015
Ekerum Konsthall 2015
Gallerie Sagoy, Malmö 2015
Galleri Backlund, Göteborg 2015
Konsthallen, Musikskolan, i Aneby 2014
Education
1974-78 Konstfackskolan Stockholm
1973-74 Grundskolan för konstnärlig utbildning Stockholm
Member i KRO Konstnärernas Riksorganisation
