Before you woke this morning

This is a sculptural painting, where the rawness of nature meets the interior.  This painting is painted on board with rear-supporting structure for hanging on the wall.  Ann-Helen’s paintings contain elements of real as well as invented nature, in the sense that sand, stone and plant life are incorporated into the oil paint.  She also incorporates collage and print.

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Medium

mixed media and collage on board, Oil

Year

2010

Original / Edition

original work of art

Size

122 x 109 x 5 cm

Description

The natural and nostalgic are combined in Ann-Helen’s paintings. She lives on a small island in the Baltic (one of the hundreds of islands in the Stockholm archipelago) for a large part of the year.  Growing up in Northern Sweden surrounded by forests, mountains and lakes, together with memories of the magic and mystery of Nordic folk stories, had a profound impact on Ann-Helen. Emerged in this remote environment, where the rawness of nature is the dominant force, she distills images from countless observations to arrive at brief glimpses or moments of truth – much like “seeing the world in a grain of sand” or indeed like a line of poetry that tells a whole story.

Ann-Helen was educated in Sweden, has a Fine Art BA Hons from Reading University and an MA in Printmaking from The Slade School of Art UCL (1981).  She won the Stowells Trophy at the Royal Academy in 1979 and has taken part in New Contemporaries at the ICA, showing also at the Serpentine Gallery and the Camden Art Centre and amongst others across the UK, USA and Sweden.

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