I take much of my inspiration from landscape and most of it from 'remembered' landscape. In Sweden where I grew up, nature was part of my everyday life. Being outdoors a lot was normal and in that way I connected in my thoughts and feelings to the environment around me but my work has never been about 'horizons, trees and lakes' etc. Nature for me is abstract, It's all about the shape of a raindrop and the light it reflects or the particular lack of sound and smell you get when you walk in a snowy forest. That kind of stillness is comforting perhaps but the uncomfortable things are also intriguing like having wet, frozen feet when you've got a long walk home. The beauty in nature can be very elevating and inspiring but other states of being can be evoked such as mundanity, boredom, loneliness and other aspects of humanity, it's neither good nor bad it just is...


Living in the centre London for most of my life now has pushed me back to my origins in my creative work. It's not a sentimental longing but more an attempt to balance the the intensity of the man-made, multilayered world with something more serene and pure. I always strive to connect with an 'otherness' in my work that hopefully allows the painting to come alive and have its own imaginative space. It's a space to step into, be captivated by and to lose yourself in for a while.


On another level my work is just as much about the process of painting in itself, to manipulate the media in order to create shapes, light and darkness and so on. It's very much a dialouge between myself and the canvas where everything I see or do goes into the process of painting. Every moment of that dialouge is like a struggle that gets applied onto the canvas, almost a documentation of time itself. It's up to me to decide when it's time to stop, to know when it's finished, when a painting finally works it has become it's own little entity, an energy that is nothing to do with me anymore. That is the moment to leave it alone, step back and let it dry. The world outside goes on as usual but 'in there' inside the painting something very separate from that is happening.