Art exhibit

Today I have hung up my new painting in a new exhibition with art from Swedish nature. The pictures are made with soft pastel or watercolour. The opening is on Saturday. The works of art below are from Gysinge at the Dal River (Dalalven).

Lommens bod

Pastel painting is very fun and exciting. Here is a painting I made from the archipelago outside Stockholm. It is a painting from the island Gillöga and shows Lommen's bod.

[LS comment: 'Bod' is the Swedish word for a small house or outbuilding, usually not made to live in but to store things in. A 'vedbod' is for storing firewood, for example]

Soft pastell

Det har varit en intensiv målarmånad och jag njuter av att måla pastell.
Lavskrikor trivs i gammal lavrik skog.
(It has been an intensiv month of drawing and I enjoy using the pastels.
Siberian jays like old forests with many lichens.]

I april gjorde vi en resa till Örudden och Landsort och studerade ejdrar och andra fåglar.
[In April we traveled to Örudden and Landsort in the Baltic sea and watched eiders and other birds.]
Skåne är inte bara platt utan har även ett böljande landskap. Jag tycker mycket om våren och inspirerades av den slingrande vägen och blommande hagtornsträd.
[Skåne is not always flat, but can also have a hilly landscape. I love the spring very much and was inspired by the winding road and the flowering hawthorn trees.]

painting the dark

Making art is hard, but I think it is even harder if you paint night scenes. In a recent issue of the Pastel Journal, Don Williams is interviewed and they show some of his night scenes, which remind me of Winston Link's railroad photos, some paintings by Edward Hopper, and old black and white film noir scenes. Take a look at William's art here.

A primeval forest in Sweden

In two times in November have I visit Skiren-Kvicken's nature reserve in Eskilstuna for painting. It is very peaceful place with big old trees, fallen trees, dead trees and a lot of smaller trees which try to get some light. The soil is covered of green moss in big layers. Most of the trees are spruces and some heavy pines. Birch is also common and some hazel. Today it was very calm, +2° and some woodpeckers searched for insects. Some small groups of titmice passed me over in the trees and further away I heard a goshawk in the forest. I was painting soft pastel for some hours and made a break for coffee and to eat some sandwiches. It was some dampness in the air and I had a very nice time. To sit alone in the forest and make a painting gives me a very special feeling of happiness.

In the forest is a small lake with some reeds and a bog.

Exhibition nov 2007 in Sweden

Have a look of some of my art work in Watercolor and Soft Pastel.

'Skiren', a small lake in the forest.

'The Owl ridge' in springtime.

A Blackbird drinking rainwater.

A boulder in 'Hedmossen' (The heather bog).

Hayfield in the mountains.

My apple trees and flowers.

Shadows on the road.

A newspaper-reading man at my swimming place.

A 'bluetite' bird among apple flowers.

Bloggpremiär

Hej nu är jag inne på bloggen, vi har slängt massor av skräp idag på soptippen.
AnS