Carina Söderström

My own experiences as a woman (in relation to others, to family and to society) are the source I get ideas and inspiration from mostly. Nature in all it's forms is a source to my artistry, such as the movement of water and the feeling of how the sky meets the sea and the complete balance between perfect forms and lively lines. However, the most fundamental thing in my practice is that I try to reach the soul of what I render, in the color itself and behind the surface. I am captivated by the warm and cold shifts of colors in relation to each other and can immerse myself deeply in the infinite variety and changeability that all living things carry. The big existential questions always speak to me. What it means to be human, the essence of being.
What I have been working on for some time now is a continuation of what has just been mentioned. To reach deeper into what cannot really be understood on an intellectual level but rather intuitively, perhaps back to the fundaments. A child's total vulnerability, loneliness and the dimensions of death that possibly exist in the midst of the living are themes now. A strong female force I think I sense in the movement of nature between a first seed or drop to courageously increase in size and then wither or dissolve. The feeling is that in my own body there is the universal and I use that when I paint. It becomes large canvases where I ¨connect¨to the canvas and somehow transfer myself to the painting.