Lotta Hellström

 

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Lotta Hellström

Statement
The nature is often in my work as a theme and a profound ground.
As a kind of scene where different events are played. People often mention that it feels like Swedish and Scandinaviens nature, with bleched light colors and a white light.
The folkcloric northern naturehistory, endless landscapes where the smallness of man gets a specific role. Uninhabited areas where man even makes a print, the history and histories that breaths and are told throughout time. It may feel like the language is shifting, like in a timless story that gets its own life. The viewer can choose ones own story.
In this landscape i as my own explorer, wish to continue the journey, to se what stories that will be
played. Or maby its in the nothingness, an emptyness that are waiting for something to appear.
Its a cind of mystery thats interest me, the hidden parts that might be there or not, the things we
cannot see and the things we see, what is it that really surround us ?
Sometimes i work only through fantasy, memories. Sometimes i start with a photo from a paper,
but the motive always become my own, its never an detailed imaging. The tecnice is mostly in oil
or acrylic on canvas, sometimes with fragments of pastel, pencil and chalk.

Born 1970

Konsthögskolan i Trondheim 2003-2007
Gäststudent Konsthögskolan Valand 2005

Solo exhibitions
Restaurang Folkhemmet, Stockholm 2003
Galleri Bergman, Stockholm 2006
Hotel Diplomat, Stockholm 2008
Vincontoret, Tidaholm 2009
Galleri Thingwall, Runmarö, 2021

Group exhibition
Galleri KIT, Trondheim 2005, 2006
Trondelagsutstillingen, Trondheim 2003, 04, 07
Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, ” nye malere” 2006
Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg 2007
Galleri Arnsteth-Kullgren, Båstad ”Julsalong” 2008
Galleri Ismene, Trondheim 2011 ”Intryck fra naturen”
( med bl.a Per Kirkeby )
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm “Vårsalonggen”, 2012
Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, SAKs vinstutställning 2012
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, ”Ankomst 2013”
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, ”Showroom special” 2017
Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg ”On and on and on” 2018
Klockestrands skolhus, Kramfors, 2023
Restaurang KB / Gm SKF, Stockholm ( Curerad av H. Edfors ) 2024
Nacka konsthall / Dieselverkstaden, “Vintersalong”, 2024
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, “Stockholm konst gästar Liljevalchs+”, 2025

Stipendier
Gålöstipendiet 1998
Nord-Plus stipendiat 2005
Våga-Se stipendiat 2006
Emma Ricklunds Stiftelse 2009
Svensk Norska samarbetsfonden 2010

Representerad
SAK- Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening
Statens Konstråd
Stockholm konst / Kulturförvaltningen
Våga se, konstförening
Uppsala region                     
Älvkarlebo region
Västra götalands region
Trondheims region
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Lotta Hellström often put into abstract elements in the composition, and sometimes lets face painting artwork in its own dimension. The art is painted in oil, sometimes with a hint of pencil and sometimes pastel chalk. She looks at and often get inspiration from pictures in books and magazines. She never work with direct imaging, but can use a photo as a foundation which she then makes his own. For it can Lotta add another image, or anything else that she finds interesting. Intuition and flexibility are involved in the process, therefore, must work their own lives and do not always like she imagined.