My artistic practice revolves around being, identity, and our relationship to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. My work is rooted in my upbringing in the forests of Småland, Sweden, and in a fascination with human beings and our place in the world. In my work, the everyday meets the dreamlike, and playfulness meets more serious themes.

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I primarily work with figurative painting, using a magical realist visual language in which people, animals, nature, and architectural elements meet in unexpected situations. Through colour, form, symbolism, and composition, I explore questions of time, memory, belonging, and what lies beneath the surface of what we can see. My work also includes other media, such as clay sculpture painted with oil.

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My art is inspired by the naïve folk art tradition of bonadsmåleri, which I also teach. I work with a limited palette of earth pigments – yellow ochre, red ochre, umber, Prussian blue, and titanium white – using thistle seed oil or egg yolk as a painting medium. These traditional materials and the limited colour palette have become an integral part of my own visual language.