Tag: Swedish artist

Emma Eyre creates vivid botanical paintings inspired by the accidental compositions of plants she discovers on forest floors and along rural pathways in Sweden. Originally from Honolulu and now living in the Swedish countryside, she has built a creative life around teaching, raising a family, growing food, spending time in nature, and maintaining a consistent painting practice. Her recent On the Ground series begins with photographs of overlooked plants, nettles, reeds, thistles, and leaves before developing through translucent ink washes and layers of opaque oil paint. Rather than recreating nature photographically,…

Victoria Curling Eriksson creates atmospheric oil paintings that move between seascape, landscape, and emotional memory, transforming coastlines, skies, forests, and shifting light into deeply calming visual experiences. Living on the northwest coast of Skåne in Sweden, surrounded by sea and woodland nature reserves, she paints entirely from intuition rather than photographs or sketches, allowing colour, atmosphere, and feeling to guide each work as it slowly develops through layered oils. Her paintings often begin with only an emotion or palette in mind, gradually evolving over many thin layers into compositions filled with…