oil painting

diary painting XXX

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14-04-09b

14-04-09; oil on wood panel (photo HHW.)

I’m happy to be back to work in the studio (it’s been a long time – I can tell from the looks of my palette). I’m also happy to have new followers here…
These ‘diary paintings’ are my taking notes about the day’s atmosphere and light; somewhat like a musician’s exercising scales and harmonies. Usually, they’re made in 45 minutes to one hour. Over time, they may form a theme – or not. Sometimes they open up to something new. Sometimes they are simply uninteresting, dull… much like a diary.

from the studio…

art, recent work

140312 värmepump i ateljén

Woodpanels drying in front of the heat pump

Long time since I published the last posts, but that doesn’t mean work is off. Blogging about my work is a kind of reflection, and since August 2013 I’m doing a lot more of that – reflecting – although in another context; currently, I’m in a two-year programme at the Center for Studies in Practical Knowledge at Södertörn University (Stockholm), which means a lot of reading, writing and discussing. Another part of my time is spent at Art Lab Gnesta.

But then, there’s the studio. It’s always there… Spring light is outside. Inside, it’s warm. Inside, things are waiting.

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shades & matter

Artistic Research Processes at Konstnärshuset (Stockholm) IV

art, recent work

Konstnarshuset-10

Helena Hildur W, installation with painting and prints at Konstnärshuset;
photo by Gert Germeraad

For my own participation in this exhibition, I brought painting #IV (still unfinished) as the central piece of an installation also comprising prints from Art Lab Gnesta’s risograph and a few items from the studio, along with an artist book with text and photographs from the project.

The book is available, in limited edition (30 copies in total); to order, please leave a note in the commentary field below.
Full text – in Swedish, although with an English abstract – can also be found here:

Om varseblivning av kvalitet i gestaltande processer: del 1, en individuell process.