Erik Nordström

My paintings is about absorbing details and experiences from my daily life, and letting this mix together with my dreams, intentions and visions. To use a worn-out phrase: the outer world meets the inner world. Intitutions and intellect, lust and logics, I think you know what I mean.
All this results, in the best cases, in a kind of thunder bolts or other amazing phenemons over the canvas.
This might sound dramatic, but my ways of working with my pictures isn´t always dramatic. After the fury start, I continue with a patient experiments by collecting and testing contradictory elements into a, hopefully, harmonizing totality.
I stop working with the painting when it speaks to me: now I´m ready, mature,keep your brush away and the painting wants to leave the studio and walk out in the world.
This moment is very difficult; it´s all about intitution. You must stop painting while the canvas is giving birth to interesting questions, rebus and enigmas. It´s life and life only...