Born in Stockholm in 1976, Tomas Lacke is a self-taught Swedish artist who practices both painting and sculpture. The absence of a theoretical course and his free use of mixed media allow him to experiment and find new horizons in his creative process.

His paintings include large-scale abstract and figurative works in a mixture of warm, earthy colours.

Created by superimposing textures and fluid pigments, his abstract works explore territories between matter, emotion and mystery. Each painting seems to emerge from an organic, almost volcanic process, where the forms are never static but in constant mutation. They invite us to contemplate the unstable, to accept impermanence and to project our own imaginations into their depths.

Using organic textures and sharp contrasts, the artist creates compositions that evoke both interior landscapes and changing natural phenomena. His pictorial gestures oscillate between control and chance, allowing the material to reveal itself, like an alchemy in progress. The works exude a tension between appearance and erasure, between solidity and dissolution, conjuring up ambiguous forms that stimulate the viewer’s imagination. The result is sensual, vibrant painting, where the surface becomes a territory of exploration, depth and silence.

Today, Tomas Lacke’s art is represented in Sweden, Denmark, England, Belgium and France.

“The driving force of painting is to use colours and contrasts to give depth to the pictures. They have to touch you. It’s not just an object for interior decoration. Again, you have to ‘feel’ when you look at them.”