LOVISA KJERRGREN

MEDIUM

Painting

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Art is a verse I add to the poem of the landscape, always in a pairing of nature’s sublime refinement and curiosity’s inspired hand.”

ARTIST BIO

There is a poetry inherent in the landscapes around us. You can feel its verse in the wind, see it in the changing light and in the textures that shift along the hillside. In Lovisa’s creative practice, she paraphrases it in a language of form, color and texture. Landscape poetry is both the inspiration and the ambition of her art. Attuned to subtleties of seasonal and atmospheric conditions that define the experience of a place at any given moment, her work celebrates the ephemeral.

From the quiet lakes and deep forests of Lovisa’s native Sweden to the foamy shores and prickly deserts of Southern California she calls home since 2015, the intricacy of nature is an endless source of awe and inspiration. Through her education and practice, she engages with it in cross-pollinating capacities that straddle the worlds of art and design. As a landscape architect, she creates environments that harmonize ecological functions and human use. As an artist, she explores the visual complexity of landscapes at various scales, equally fascinated by things that grow and things that disintegrate. Whether capturing a vista or cropping a view down to its smallest details, Lovisa strives to find unexpected vantage points from which to draw out the spectacular that resides within ordinary and often overlooked elements of our surroundings.