ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

Most of my paintings are based on the abstract. For many years, I painted abstract paintings, but at the moment, the paintings are not always fully abstract. A small woman, a plant, or a bird may sneak into the painting. 

Abstract painting is very well-suited for bringing out sensations of nature. Water flowing, cracking as it dries, light and shadow. Abstract painting is often about sensations, about sensing colors, light, and energy. Flow - softness and hardness. In abstract painting, you can go exploring, sensing, and letting the brain try to recognize shapes and colors.  

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Abstract paintings for the living room

Abstract paintings are non-figurative art where shapes and figures do not represent anything specific. In abstract painting, colors and shapes do not represent specific objects, but instead, shapes and colors are used to create effects. Some of the most well-known abstract artists are Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma Af Klint, Piet Mondrian, Sonya Delaunay and Jackson Pollock. 

ABSTRACT PAINTING

Abstract painting is largely about sensing colors and shapes. Allowing yourself to be led into a painting, where you can help shape the story yourself, as the painting is open to interpretation. My paintings are based on the abstract, with indefinable shapes moving across the image. However, the painting's abstractions are inspired by nature, where I use crackling and water flows to imitate nature's patterns. In my paintings, one can also see budding, branching, and cell shapes. 

My latest paintings have also started to become less abstract. Here, botanical elements such as plants and flowers are beginning to enter the painting. Insects like bees and butterflies can also sneak in. Some of my paintings also have a little woman as a storyteller. She is always small, transparent, and painted in the same colors as her surroundings. This is to tell that we humans are nature, that we are created from the same building blocks as the nature around us. She is always small, as I want to highlight that we humans are very small in the vast universe. 

Abstract Painting : Rock

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Jackson Pollock was a central figure in abstract expressionism with his action painting. He explored how the paint reacted on the canvas and let the painting technique tell the story he wanted to show.

This is also the starting point I have in my paintings. I let the materials work. I let water move the paint in beautiful flows that dry, and I work further with the poetic shapes that "nature" creates. My technique creates a part of the abstract expression by letting the paint work, separate, and flow out. Unlike Pollock, however, I always post-process my shapes and paint a bit of rigidity into the narrative. I want to create a human layer over what nature has created - a form of human guidance that leads the viewer into the narrative. 

In a way, you could say that my paintings are not entirely abstract. I take the abstract expression as my starting point, but several of my shapes resemble something. However, I exclusively use shapes that can be many things. For example, a branch can have the same flow as how your blood vessels branch out inside the body, how a tree branches, or how a river branches into smaller rivers. What a branch has in common is that it follows a law of nature for how to move energy to a larger area. How we perceive the branch, however, may depend on what color it has or what is shown next to it. Our brains will always try to make a shape look like something. Therefore, in abstract paintings, you will often be able to see a lot of recognizable shapes. 

ABSTRACT SYMBOLISM

Hilma af Klint is also a great inspiration for me. She was a pioneering abstract artist who, in her art, spiritually linked inner experience and symbolic language. Her systematic paintings are visual representations of complex philosophical ideas. She broke with visible reality and developed an abstract pictorial language. Hilma af Klint's works are not only about pure abstraction, but about embodying the invisible. 

I also have this desire to tell something philosophical with abstract painting in my art. In my abstract works, I want to create a narrative about nature's cohesion. A story about the human in nature - and nature in the human. It is a story about the fact that we humans are nature. That we are part of something greater, part of an extremely complex pattern that can nevertheless be broken down into a few basic shapes from which everything is created. 

Read more in my blog post "What is abstract art?"

Painting : Clear Sky

MY SEMI-ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

MY ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

Modern abstract paintings inspired by nature:

An artistic expression of the earth's beauty

My abstract paintings are not abstract for the sake of abstraction. They are abstract because abstract pictorial language is the best tool I have to tell what I want to tell — about nature's invisible patterns, about the building blocks of life, and about the interconnectedness that exists between all living things.

I work within SciArt — a field where art and science meet. My paintings explore nature's own forms: the cell shapes that are the basis for all life, the fractal patterns that repeat themselves from the smallest to the largest, the movement of water, and the patterns of crackling. It is nature's own abstract language that I try to translate to the canvas.

I paint with large amounts of water that let the paint flow and form freely — and then I work with the universe that arises. It is an interplay between control and coincidence, between human intention and nature's own laws. The result is paintings that can never be repeated — each painting is a unique moment in that process.

The paintings are inspired by nature, combining the raw beauty of the earth's landscapes with the artist's personal interpretation. These works highlight nature's forms, colors, and patterns in an abstract way that evokes emotions and invites contemplation. When you choose an abstract painting inspired by nature, you bring nature's harmony and aesthetics directly into your home or office. Instead of being an exact reproduction of a landscape or a plant, these paintings interpret the essence of nature through color palettes, textures, and shapes. This makes them ideal for creating a calm and inspiring atmosphere.

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS IN INTERIOR DESIGN

An abstract painting does something special to a room — it adds depth and movement without dominating. It gives the eye a place to rest and wander at the same time. And because abstract painting is open to interpretation, it changes with the light and with the viewer — you always discover something new.

My abstract paintings work beautifully in Scandinavian and Nordic homes with natural materials — the blue and turquoise tones fit cool Nordic interiors, the warm earth tones fit rooms with wood and stone, and the light botanical paintings fit bright rooms with plants and natural textiles.

A large abstract painting in 100x150 cm or 110x180 cm works as a natural center point above the sofa. The medium-sized formats in 80x80 cm and 60x60 cm are perfect above a sideboard or as part of a gallery wall. And the small paintings on paper are intimate works of art that work alone or in a group.

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Interior with modern abstract painting.