Born in Göteborg in 1958, Stefan Kavsjö is a Swedish painter who works with oil on canvas. He began painting at a young age, attending the Domen Art School in 1980, and it was almost 4 decades later, after a long career in advertising, that the brush once again found his hand.

His work then gave way to landscapes devoid of all boundaries. For the artist, it’s the way they can be transformed in a matter of minutes. If you follow the coast closely, the sky may be clear and then suddenly give way to a weather front coming 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 sun. It is in these transitions from one state to another that his paintings are situated. Wandering 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 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 particular time.

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

“These paintings represent landscapes in the midst of change. They invite the viewer to linger, wander and awaken a personal memory.”