I have been painting for as long as I can remember, but about eighteen years ago, I began sculpting in stone in earnest. Over time, stone has taken an increasingly central place in my work and is now my primary form of expression. In both painting and sculpting, I focus on the same themes or forms for extended periods.
The couple, Håkan Blomqvist and Karin Westman, have been working together for over 20 years, creating their unique glass sculptures, cast in sand molds. They use vibrant colors and clear glass to craft striking glass sculptures inspired by the world around us, both near and far.
My art is partly a spontaneous game, a gamble, to take advantage of the small inspiring details in life with the help of intuition.
SHARED SPACES captures images born out of exile, extermination, and genocide. These consist of invisible and emotional memories carried in the luggage—where the container transports sensations, feelings, scents, and tastes that share space with personal belongings.
After a full professional life as a doctor – with plenty of gallery visits – for the past 15 years I have had the good fortune to paint myself. The first favorites were the American Expressionists and still are. I paint out of desire for color and form and sometimes to comment on the contemporary world.
In my visual world, anything can happen where imagination has no limits. I paint what I have experienced woven into fantasy and illusion. There is the dream, the poetry, the pain, the sadness, the joy, humor and the spiritual.
Watercolor painting came into my life later and gradually claimed a significant place in my heart as a wonderfully rich medium of expression.
