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I prefer using acrylic, but also, in a mixture, I'm using oil crayons, graphite and charcoal, which provides me freedom, flexibility and inspiration. Since my teenage period, I have been interested in art and painting, mixing school work with disrespectful experimenting with different materials and technics.

Painting is for me something like falling into a so called "flow", meaning to foreclose the noise from a world. Sometimes I express some kind of movement in my paintings, a gesture, a dance pose, an activity or just a stationary expression in body language. Sometimes I fall for the more abstract, usually with some kind of structure, or architecture, from another world and then it will be as it will be.

I usually try to create somthing we can call "Abstract beauty", which says something about my painting. I want to distort reality, and, at the same time arouse emotions, by partly seeking to achieve something beautiful, partly by creating somthing that can be interpreted freely. Peter Dahl puts it more briefly, "What do I want? Create life atmosphere, expression".

When I stand in front of a blank canvas, I usually don't have a clear idea of what I want to create. The picture emerges during the creation process, exciting, unexpected and then it's up to the viewer to interpret. Maybe pictorial expression sometimes has it's own way? On the other hand, I like to draw inspiration from the vividly western sea, alternating sky and barren cliffs, I prefer to start from the cold blue scale, sometimes with a slightly warming element ...

 
 
 
Olof Wettre
Olof Wettre