Stefan Kavsjö

Born in 1958 in Gothenburg, Stefan Kavsjö is a Swedish painter working in oil on canvas. He began painting at a young age, joining the Domen School of Art in 1980, and it was almost four decades later, after a successful career in advertising, that he picked up the brush again.

His work then gives way to landscapes devoid of any boundaries. For the artist, it's the way they can transform in a matter of minutes. When following the coast closely, sometimes the sky is clear and suddenly it gives way to a weather front rolling in from the sea, rapidly changing the look and feel of the landscape. Familiar details can be lost in coastal fog, erased by a rainstorm, or blurred by intense morning or evening sunlight. It is in these transitions from one state to another that his paintings are situated. Vagabond periods, not a single moment as such.

Nor are they meant to represent a particular place, hence the absence of geographical names. The idea of the place should not define an image in the viewer's mind. The artist strives to create timeless views, possibly a memory of a place you have been, a feeling, an atmosphere at a given moment.

Most paintings are created from sketches, photographs, or simply memories of a walk. All paintings are built from thin glazes combined with a broad palette. The base colors can then affect subsequent glazes or be completely erased, only to be revealed again as the layers are reworked while still wet.