Erik Nordström

Raw materials!

In the studio

Kulturhuset, Jönköping 2007
Art gallery, Stockholm 2005
Kulturnatten, Jönköping 2004
Gallery Véboa, Sandhem 2001
Freja Kulturhur, Vetlanda 2001
Råslätts kyrka, Jönköping 1996
Gallery Nobel, Gothenburg 1995
Gallery Katharsis 1994
Kulrurhuset, Jönköping 1991
Gallery Blå, 1988
Galleri Westers 1987
Kulturhuset, Jönköping 1987

I have been painting for thirthy years. It is a great adventure and is also like keeping a diary. If I ever have to see a psycho- therapist, I will bring my paintings to show what goes on inside of me...
Well, I`m not so fond of talking about myself in conections with my paintings.
I want them to speak for themselves.
Please look at my paintings and make your own opinion of them. I will be very happy if you contact me and tell me what the paintings did to you.

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...

The studio aint´t large but you find sights from everywhere.