Jolanta Johnsson · Malexander, Sweden
Two Worlds. One Conversation.
Semi-abstract paintings, drawings and original graphics by Jolanta Johnsson — where the human figure and the landscape are two faces of the same mystery.
Doctor of Fine Arts
D.F.A.
Alfred Nobel Memorial Art Scholarship
2024
Museum & Private Collections
Europe · USA · Dubai
Welcome
I paint people and nature not as separate subjects, but as one conversation. In nature I find pattern, rhythm, and an honesty that doesn’t argue with itself. In the human figure I find vulnerability, and the quiet drama of existing between opposing forces. When I paint, the boundary between them dissolves — a landscape becomes emotional, a figure becomes elemental.
These are not decorative pictures. The compositions are deliberately open — resistant to a single interpretation — made to reveal something in the tenth year on your wall that they withheld in the first. What I offer is not decoration but recognition: a mirror for people who know that life is lived between opposing forces.
Recent Works
Selected Pieces
A few of the works currently available — each with its own story on its page.
From the studio · Malexander, Sweden
Every work is painted, printed, or drawn in my studio in Malexander, Sweden — a workroom among forests and lakes, where four decades of practice continue daily. Paintings and drawings are one of a kind; graphics are signed, limited editions. Each work is signed, comes with a certificate of authenticity, and ships worldwide directly from the studio, shipping included.
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